Recent Advances in Surgery - 11

- This addition to the prestigious series of Recent Advances in Surgery is completely
revised and updated. Written by experienced senior and most credible experts, using
symptom-based scenarios to comprehensively explore a range of issues with which
practicing surgeons and students need to be familiar to evolve into competent
medical practitioners. It chronicles some of the challenges which have been
encountered by surgical practitioners around the world through innovation and new
techniques
- This book providing updates on various areas of surgery, is a reminder of its value in
growth and evolution. It includes a chapter on how to manage mass casualties in
disasters and terrorist attacks which is sadly becoming the need of the hour. Stem cell
research and tissue engineering are being viewed as the hope for future
- The role of radioisotopes in management of endocrine disease, molecular approach
to treatment, genetics, interventional radiology and the biomechanical insight into
wound healing, depict a healthy integration of various scientific disciplines
- The six sigma methodology illustrates the extent to which surgical care, like any other
field needs quality improvement tools