![]() ![]() Mankind’s innovation accelerated in the second half of that century, exemplified by the development of reliable interventions on the heart, each one a story in itself: the ability to treat cyanosed babies and children the development of the pacemaker the defibrillator cardiopulmonary bypass valve replacements coronary bypass surgery heart transplantation percutaneous coronary artery stents percutaneous treatments for dysrhythmias and percutaneous valve insertion. ![]() How could a human ‘interfere’ with this vital organ, correct abnormalities and have a healthy patient at the end of the procedure? During much of this time it was considered impossible to operate on the heart due to its essential function supplying oxygenated blood to the body. In step with medicine, surgery proliferated in the 20th century enabled by the combined application of general anaesthesia and antisepsis. A tiny fraction of our ‘modern’ existence. ![]() It is thought humans began to exhibit behavioural modernity around 100,000 years ago, and it is only in the last 100 years that truly effective health care has been discovered, developed and adopted around much of world’s population. This bestselling handbook provides an accessible overview of key surgical principles, techniques and procedures.50 Years of the Pericardial Heart Valve -Click to view PDF Version Cover - Half Title - Series - Title - Copyright - Dedication - Acknowledgement - Foreword - Preface to the fifth edition - Preface to the fourth edition - Preface to the first edition - Contents - Contributors - Symbols and abbreviations - 1 Good surgical practice - 2 Principles of surgery - 3 Surgical pathology - 4 Practical procedures - 5 Head and neck surgery - 6 Breast surgery - 7 Endocrine surgery - 8 Upper gastrointestinal surgery - 9 Liver, pancreatic, and biliary surgery - 10 Abdominal wall - 11 Urology - 12 Colorectal surgery - 13 Paediatric surgeryġ4 Paediatric orthopaedic surgery - 15 Major trauma - 16 Orthopaedic surgery - 17 Plastic surgery - 18 Cardiothoracic surgery - 19 Peripheral vascular disease - 20 Transplantation - 21 Common surgical procedures - 22 Remote and rural surgery - 23 Surgery in tropical diseases - 24 Eponymous terms and rarities - 25 Day case surgery - 26 Emergency surgery topics - Anatomy and physiology key revision points index - Index ![]()
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