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Emerging Technologies in Surgery

Tremendous acceleration and changes in scientific discovery and progress are presently occurring. These important emerging technologies that will affect the practicing surgeon within the next 10 to 20 years are illustrated in detail in this volume. Its purpose is not to review clinical experience of...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Collectivité auteur: SpringerLink (Online service)
Autres auteurs: Satava, Richard M. (Éditeur intellectuel), Gaspari, Achille (Éditeur intellectuel), Lorenzo, Nicola (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
Édition:1st ed. 2007.
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Accès en ligne:Texto Completo
Table des matières:
  • Overview of Emerging Technologies
  • Economics of New Surgical Technologies
  • The Scientific, Social, and Ethical Implications of Disruptive Technologies
  • Education and Training
  • The World Virtual University and the Internet: http://www.websurg.com
  • Virtual Reality: Objective Assessment, Education, and Training
  • Organizing Surgical Simulation Centers in Response to Disruptive Technologies
  • Ideal VR systems: Is There a "Holy Grail" in Simulation System Land?
  • The Medical Informatics Challenge in Surgery
  • Robotics and Novel Surgical Approaches
  • Robotics in General Surgery: Today and Tomorrow
  • Evolving Endoluminal Therapies
  • Innovations in Surgical Instruments
  • Microtechnology in Surgical Devices
  • Innovative Instruments in Endoscopic Surgery
  • New Hemostatic Dissecting Forceps with a Metal Membrane Heating Element
  • Radiofrequency and Hepatic Tumors
  • Technological Innovations in Kidney and Liver Living-Donor-Related Transplantation
  • Bioengineering
  • Tissue Engineering
  • Beyond the Future
  • Adapting to Future Technologies.