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<b><b><p><b>Part I: Surgical Science and Practice:  The New Direction</b></p><p> </p><p>1: The New Surgeon:  Patient-Centered, Disease-Focused, Technology-Driven, and Team-Oriented</p><p>Rifat Latifi, Stanley J. Dudrick, and Ronald C. Merrell</p><p> </p><p></p><p>2: The Ever-Changing Departments of Surgery:  The New Paradigm--The Roadmap to a Modern Department of Surgery</p><p>Rainer W. G. Gruessner</p><p> </p><p>3: Genomics in Surgery, Trauma, and Critical Care:  How Do We Control the Future? </p><p>Matthew J. Delano and Ronald V. Maier</p><p> </p><p>4: Nanotechnologies in Surgery: The New Paradigm</p><p>Russell J. Andrews </p><p> </p><p>5: Telemedicine for Trauma and Intensive Care: Changing the Paradigm of Telepresence  </p><p>Rifat Latifi</p><p> </p><p>6: Augmented Reality in Surgery</p><p>Timothy M. Rankin, Marvin J. Slepian, and David G. Armstrong</p><p> </p><p>7: The Lean Innovation Model for Academic Medical Discovery</p><p>Gabriel Gruionu and George C. Velmahos</p><p> </p><p>8: Changing the Protocol: </p></b></b> Is There Still Room for the Professor’s Viewpoint? <p></p><p>Kenneth D. Boffard, with Robert S. Boffard</p><p> </p><p>9: Ethical Implications of Advanced Technologies in Surgical Care </p><p><b>Alberto R. Ferreres</b></p><p></p><p>Part II: Trauma, Resuscitation, and Nutrition</p><p></p><p></p><p>10: Dedicated Resuscitation Operating Room for Trauma</p><p>Todd W. Costantini,  Leslie Kobayashi, and Raul Coimbra</p><p> </p><p>11: End Points Resuscitation</p><p>T. Elizabeth Robertson, Shuntaye D. Batson, and John M. Porter</p><p> </p><p>12: Abdominal Trauma: Not Everything that Bleeds Needs an Operation</p><p>Marcie Feinman and David T. Efron</p><p> </p><p>13: Neurosurgical Advances in Trauma Management</p><p>ByoungJun Han and Uzma Samadani</p><p> </p><p>14: Damage Control and Organ Injury Priority Management of Trauma Patients</p><p>Riaan Pretorius, Frank Plani, and Elias Degiannis</p><p> </p><p>15: Multiorgan Dysfunction in Trauma and Surgical Intensive Care Units</p><p>Ayman Ahmed El-Menyar, Mohammad Asim, and Hassan Al-Thani</p> <p></p><p>16: Advances in Burn Care</p><p>Kareem R. AbdelFattah and Steven E. Wolf</p><p> </p><p>17: Biology of Nutrition Support and Gut Access in Critically Ill Patients</p><p>Norio Sato and Rifat Latifi</p><p> </p><p>Part III: System-Oriented Technological Advances</p><p><i>Section A:  Head and Neck</i></p><p>18: Advances in Head and Neck Surgery</p><p>Michael E. Stadler, Mihir R. Patel, and Marion E. Couch </p><p> </p><p>19: Neck Cancer:  Imaging Techniques and Progress on the Operative Approach</p><p>Diego Sinagra and Fernando Dip</p><p> </p><p>20: Advances in Thyroid and Parathyroid Care</p><p>Randall P. Scheri, Julie A. Sosa, and Sanziana A. Roman </p><p> </p><p>21: Neuron Based Surgery: Are We There Yet? Technical Developments in the Surgical Treatment of Brain Injury and Disease</p><p>Whitney Sheen James and G. Michael Lemole, Jr.</p><p> </p><p>22: Brain Cancer:  The New Frontiers</p><p>Brian J. Scott and Santosh Kesari</p><p><i> </i></p><p><i>Section B:  Chest:  Lungs and Heart</i></p><p>23: Advanced Thoracoscopic Surgery to Modern Pulmonary Disease: The Japanese Approach </p><p>Masato Kanzaki</p><p> </p><p>24: The Role of Robotics in Selective Thoracic Surgical Problems:   Technical</p> Considerations<p></p><p>Farid Gharagozloo</p><p> </p><p>25: Cardiac Surgery Advances:  Do We Still Remember How To Do the Open Bypass?</p><p>Soroosh Kianiand Robert S. Poston</p><p> </p><p>26: Artificial Hearts and Cardiac Assist Devices: The Spectrum of the New Era</p><p>Jamshid H. Karimov, Nader Moazami, and Kiyotaka Fukamachi</p><p> </p><p>27: New Valves: Where Do We Stand? </p><p>Jochen Reinöhl, Manfred Zehender, and Christoph Bode</p><p><i> </i></p><p><i>Section C:  Vascular Surgery</i></p><p>28: Technological Advances in Endovascular Surgery</p><p>Miguel Montero-Baker, Jonathan D. Braun, Craig Weinkauf, and Luis R. Leon Jr.                             </p><p> <p>29: Carotid Disease: The Stents and the Evidence-Based Medicine – What Happened to the Old Surgery?</p><p>David W. Birchley,  Catherine E. Western, and Alison Guy</p><p><i> </i></p><p><i>Section D:  Abdomen and Pelvis</i></p><p>30: Laparoscopic Approaches in General Surgery:  Is There Anything New?</p><p>Timothy G. Johnson and William W. Hope</p><p> </p><p>31: Robotic Applications in Advancing General Surgery</p><p>Monika E. Hagen, William M. Tauxe, and Philippe Morel</p><p> </p><p>32: Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES)</p><p>Mehmet Mahir Ozmen<i></i></p><p> </p><p>33: </p> Bariatric Surgery: The Less, The Better<p></p><p>Julia Samamé and Carlos A. Galvani</p><p> </p><p>34: New Minimally Invasive Treatments for Acid Reflux</p><p>Prashant Sukharamwala, Sharona Ross, and Alexander Rosemurgy</p><p> </p><p>35: Minimally Invasive Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery and Associated GI Interventions</p><p>Ramanathan M. Seshadri, Russell C. Kirks, Jr., and David A. Iannitti </p><p> </p><p>36: Pancreatic Advances</p><p>John A. Stauffer and Horacio J. Asbun</p><p> </p><p>37: Laparoscopic Liver Resection for Hepatocellular Carninoma</p><p>Takeshi Takahara and Go Wakabayashi </p><p> </p><p>38: Advances in Colorectal Surgery </p><p>Manuela Elía-Guedea, Jose-Manuel Ramírez-Rodríguez, and </p><p>Jose-Antonio Gracia-Solanas</p><p> </p><p>Part  IV:  Advances in Organ Transplantation</p><p>39: Technological Advances in Heart and Lung Transplantation: Concomitant Cardiac Valve Surgery </p><p>Yoshiya Toyoda, Yasuhiro Toyoda, Masako Toyoda, and Yoshiko Toyoda </p><p> </p><p>40: Abdominal Organ Transplantation:  An Overview</p><p>Jan P.M. Lerut, Laurent Coubeau, Robert J. Stratta, and  Giuseppe Orlando </p><p> </p><p>41: Small Bowel Transplantation:  Is There a Hope on the Horizon?</p><p>Baris Dogu Yildiz</p><p> </p>42: Islet Cell Transplantation: New Techniques for an Old Disease <p></p><p>Shinichi Matsumoto and Masayuki Shimoda</p><p> </p><p>43: Face Transplant:  The Future Is Better Than Current Concepts </p><p>Juan P. Barret</p><p> </p><p>44: Limb Transplantation</p><p>Jaimie T. Shores,  Gerald Brandacher, and W.P. Andrew Lee</p><p> </p><p>45: Advances in Immunosuppressive Therapy</p><p>Napoleon E. Cieza, Marian Porubsky, and Tun Jie</p><p> </p><p>Part V: Tissue Repair, Wound Healing, Abdominal Wall Hernas, Biologic Grafts, Artificial Limbs for Upper Extremities, and Pediatric/Fetal Surgery</p><p>46: Tissue Repair and Wound Healing: A Trip Back to the Future</p><p>Mahmoud A.Z. Abdelaal, Nicholas A. Giovinco,  Marvin J. Slepian, and David G. Armstrong</p><p> </p><p>47: Surgical Advances in the Treatment of Abdominal Wall Hernias</p><p>Fernando Carbonell-Tatay and Ángel Zorraquino González</p><p> </p><p>48: Use of Biologic Grafts in Surgery </p><p>Rifat Latifi</p><p> </p><p>49: Artificial Limbs for Upper Extremity Amputation</p><p>Paul D. Marasco, Jacqueline S. Hebert, and Beth M. Orzell </p><p> </p><p>50: Advanced Technologies in Pediatric Critical</p> Care/Surgery and Fetal Surgery<p></p><p>John M. Draus, Jr.</p><p></p>

<p><b>Rifat Latifi, MD, FACS</b></p><p>Professor of Surgery</p><p>Division of Trauma, Critical Care, Burn and Emergency Surgery</p><p>Co-Director Trauma Research Institute</p><p>Department of Surgery</p><p>University of Arizona</p><p>Tucson, AZ</p><p>USA</p><p><b> </b></p><p><b> </b></p><p><b>Peter Rhee, MD, FACS</b></p><p>Chief of Division of Trauma, Critical Care, Burn and Emergency Surgery</p><p>Professor of Surgery</p><p>Martin Gluck Endowed Chair</p><p>Co-Director Trauma Research Institute</p><p>University of Arizona</p><p>Tucson, AZ</p><p>USA</p><p><b> </b></p><p><b> </b></p><p><b>Rainer W.G. Gruessner, MD, FACS, FICS</b></p><p>Professor of Surgery</p><p>Department of Surgery</p><p>University of Arizona</p><p>Tucson, AZ</p><p>USA</p><p></p>

<p>This text is designed to provide a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview of the major technological advances in the field of surgery, trauma and critical care and many aspects of surgical science and practice, is unparalleled to any other current textbook. The book has been structured to review the overall scope of most current technological advances dealing with surgery, trauma, and critical care. As such, this volume represents the most comprehensive textbook covering a wide range of topics and technological advances including genomics and nanotechnologies that affect patients’ care and surgeons’ practice daily. Additionally, it<b> </b>highlights the dramatic changes in the field of neurosurgery, ENT, cardiothoracic, vascular surgery, minimally invasive surgery, robotic assisted surgery, tissue engineering, transplant, artificial limbs, pediatric surgery and telemedicine and telepresence. </p><p><i>Technological Advances in Surgery, Trauma and Critical Care</i> will serve as a valuable resource for clinicians, surgeons and researchers with an interest in trauma, critical care, and all the specialties of surgery. It provides a concise yet comprehensive summary of the current status of the field that will help guide patient management and stimulate investigative efforts.</p>

<p>Most up-to-date advances and technologies in surgery</p><p>Written by experts in the field, from around the world</p><p>Unique collection of chapters on new surgical technologies in surgery, trauma, and critical care</p>

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