Technological Advances in Surgery, Trauma and Critical Care
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 curre
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Technological Advances in Surgery, Trauma and Critical Care
Rifat Latifi Peter Rhee Rainer W.G. Gruessner Editors
Technological Advances in Surgery, Trauma and Critical Care Foreword by David B Hoyt
Editors Rifat Latifi, M.D., F.A.C.S. Professor of Surgery Division of Trauma, Critical Care, Burn and Emergency Surgery Co-Director Trauma Research Institute Department of Surgery University of Arizona Tucson, AZ, USA Peter Rhee, M.D., F.A.C.S. Chief of Division of Trauma, Critical Care, Burn and Emergency Surgery Professor of Surgery Martin Gluck Endowed Chair Co-Director Trauma Research Institute University of Arizona Tucson, AZ, USA Rainer W.G. Gruessner, M.D., F.A.C.S. Professor of Surgery Department of Surgery University of Arizona Tucson, AZ, USA
ISBN 978-1-4939-2670-1 ISBN 978-1-4939-2671-8 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4939-2671-8
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To all past, present, and future innovators in surgery.
Foreword
This new book Technical Advances in Surgery, Trauma, and Critical Care edited by Rifat Latifi, Peter Rhee, and Rainer Gruessner is truly a unique contribution. The editors have assembled a work that champions new technology and innovations that have recently occurred throughout surgery. Reading the chapters is like taking a trip to a world’s fair and being exposed to the frontiers of surgical practice. I will never forget going to the GE Exhibit at the World’s Fair in Flushing, New York, in 1964 with my parents and feeling I had glimpsed into the future. I had that same feeling reading many of these chapters 50 years later. This book explores a vision of a new hospital, the use of performance imp
