In today's world, medicine is undergoing constant changes and advances that seek to answer various clinical and increasingly demanding problems. In...

Cardiac pacing is one of the most rapidly growing fields in medicine. This growth is stimulated by several challenges unique to this subspecialty: ...

Following the success of its last symposium and book entitled 'The Evidence for Vascular Surgery', the Joint Vascular Research Group (JVRG) brings ...

This book represents a review of all the subjects with which a junior doctor needs to be effortlessly conversant in their postgraduate surgical exa...

The Pediatric Cardiac Postoperative Handbook is a practical postoperative manual. It comprises evidence-based literature which also carries daily e...

Pediatric critical care is an emotionally and intellectually demanding field of medicine; however, it is at its core the discipline focused on savi...

Epilepsy in children may take on very different forms ranging from mild to severe disabling syndromes. For certain kinds of refractory epilepsy res...

Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tubes are placed more than 125,000 times a year in the Unites States alone, making it one of the most com...

Text in English & French. This two-volume set collects the contributions to the XIst Congress of the International Union of Phlebology held in ...

Patellofemoral pain is a chronic and restrictive syndrome that affects a quarter of the general population. The main reason for the difficulty in c...

This book is both a lively introduction and a guidebook to those pioneers, most of them surgeons, who attempted to help their patients by extending...

This book provides up-to-date knowledge on almost all aspects of the multidisciplinary approach to pulmonary rehabilitation. The book advises on ho...

Interest in surgical research was a decisive factor in the surgical advances seen in the 20th century. From the "stormy petrel" of surgery (John B....

This book is a succinct set of notes in a question and answer format covering the fundamental principles of surgery. It is aimed at anyone who work...

Kidney transplantation has revolutionised the treatment of end-stage renal failure. Not only does it offer the best hope for complete rehabilitatio...

Patients undergoing bariatric surgery are special subjects, as they present several features that convert them into high-risk patients, despite oft...

Surgical site infection (SSI) is one of the most frequent complications after abdominal surgery as abdominal procedures are often clean-contaminate...

The basis of practical work of Samarkand Inter-regional burn Centre and Burn department of RSCUMA and literary data, regulations of scientific and ...

In this book, the authors present current research in the study of the procedures, benefits and potential complications of prostatectomies. Topics ...

In medicine, a prosthesis is an artificial device extension that replaces a missing body part. It is part of the field of biomechatronics, the scie...

The purpose of this book is to give an overview of the whole topic in human autonomic reflexes on the basis of the trigemino-cardiac reflex (TCR) t...

Regenerating damaged organs and tissues, an act that once was considered magic, is currently entrusted to the surgeons who have allowed us to move ...

Injuries and disease commonly affect the hand and these can significantly affect the ability of an individual to perform activities of daily living...

Idiopatic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) represents one of the most important devastating diseases that affects the lungs. Traditionally, the development...