Technological Advances in Surgery, Trauma and Critical Care

Rifat Latifi, MD, FACS 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, MD, FACS 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, MD, FACS, FICS Professor of Surgery Department of Surgery University of Arizona Tucson, AZ USA

Ther New Surgeon: Patient-Centered, Disease-Focused, Technology-Driven, and Team-Oriented.- The Ever-Changing Departments of Surgery: The New Paradigm-The Roadmap to a Modern Department of Surgery.- Genomics in Surgery, Trauma, and Critical Care: How Do We Control the Future?.- Nanotechnologies in Surgery: The New Paradigm.- Telemedicine for Trauma and Intensive Care: Changing the Paradigm of Telepresence.- Augmented Reality in Surgery.- The Lean Innovation Model for Academic Medical Discovery.- Changing the Protocol: Is There Still Room for the Professor's Viewpoint?.- Ethical Implications of Advanced Technologies in Surgical Care. Dedicated Resuscitation Operating Room for Trauma.- End Points Resuscitation.- Abdominal Trauma: Not Everything  that Bleeds Needs and Operation.- Neurosurgical Advances in Trauma Management.- Damage Control and Organ Injury Priority Management of Trauma Patients.- Multiorgan Dysfuction in Trauma and Surgical Intensive Care Units.- Advances in Burn Care.- Biology of Nutrition Support and Gut Access in Critically Ill Patients.- Advances in Head and Neck Surgery.- Neck Cancer: Imaging Techniques and Progress on the Operative Approach.- Advances in Thyroid and Parathyroid Care.- Neuron Based Surgery: Are We There Yet? Technical Developments in the Surgical Treatment of Brain Injury and Disease.- Brain Cancer: The New Frontiers.- Advanced Thoracoscopic Surgery to Modern Pulmonary Disease: The Japanese Approach.- The Role of Robotics in Selective Throacic Surgical Problems: Technical Considerations.- Cardiac Surgery Advances: Do We Still Remember How to Do Open Bypass?.- Artificial Hearts and Cardiac Assist Devices: The Spectrum of the New Era.- New Valves: Where Do We Stand?.- Technological Advances in Endovascular Surgery.- Carotid Disease: The Stents and the Evidence-Based Medicine-What Happened to the Old Surgery?.- Laporascopic Approaches in General Surgery: Is There Anything New?.- Robotic Applications in Advancing General Surgery.- Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES).- Bariatric Surgery: The Less, The Better.- New Minimally Invasive Treatments for Acid Reflux.- Minimally Invasive Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery and Associated GI Interventions.- Pancreatic Advances.- Laparoscopic Liver Resection for Hepatocellular Carcinoma.- Advances in Colorectal Surgery.- Technological Advances in Heart and Lung Transplantation: Concomitant Cardiac Valve Surgery.- Abdominal Organ Transplantation: An Overview.- Small Bowel Transplantation: Is There a Hope on the Horizon?.- Islet Cell Transplantation: New Techniques for an Old Disease.- Face Transplant: The Future is Better Than Current Concepts.- Limp Transplantation.- Advances in Immunosuppressive Therapy.- Tissue Repair and Wound Healing: A Trip Back to the Future.- Surgical Advances in the Treatment of Abdominal Wall Hernias.- Use of Biologic Grafts in Surgery.- Artifical Limbs for Upper Extremity Amputation.- Advanced Technologies in Pediatric Critical Care/Surgery and Fetal Surgery.