By Nadey S. Hakim, Vassilios E. Papalois
ISBN-10: 1860946925
ISBN-13: 9781860946929
ISBN-10: 1860948324
ISBN-13: 9781860948329
As Professor Owen H Wangensteen, one of many maximum educational surgeons of the 20 th century, stated: you're a actual health professional from the instant you could care for your issues. urged and actual prognosis, in addition to potent remedy, of surgical issues is likely one of the most vital components of surgical perform. this is often this present day extra vital than at the other time, due to the fact during the last twenty years we have now witnessed the improvement of recent surgical sub-specialties, the appearing of advanced operations in very hard sufferers, the creation of recent applied sciences in surgical perform and, final yet no longer least, an expanding curiosity in tracking the standard, medico-legal implications, and moral dimensions of surgical perform and malpractice. As surgical issues were awarded in short and sporadically in a number of books and basically as a small a part of chapters facing surgical ideas, there's a urgent desire for a latest textbook facing the prognosis, therapy, auditing, medico-legal implications and moral difficulties relating to surgical problems. Written by means of across the world recognized authors, the chapters take care of either the final concerns concerning the surgical problems and the categorical matters with regards to each one surgical strong point. every one bankruptcy comprises: medical presentation; analysis (clinical, laboratory investigations, imaging); therapy (conservative, surgical); and end result.
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Here it not only congealed to become new flesh, but also carried the innate heat of the heart and its very life-force to every part of the living creature. Some blood was even believed to pass through the thick septal wall of the heart into the left chamber, and up through the two carotids in the neck, to refine yet further into those salty-tasting animal spirits which were found in the lateral ventricles and cortical mass of freshly-removed brains. But this concept of the interior of mammalian bodies was essentially didactic rather than therapeutic in character, for the functions ascribed to organs such as the stomach, liver, heart, brain or veins were either vague or else plainly wrong.
In surgery, however, it was Abul Qasim uz-Zahrawi [Albucasis], living in Spain between AD 936 and 1013, who became the overwhelmingly important Arabic surgical writer. Albucasis pays his intellectual debts to Hippocrates, Galen and Celsus, in whose tradition he saw himself, and in his magnum opus, entitled Altasrif (known in the West as On Surgery and Instruments), he discussed a wide range of surgical conditions and instruments from his own Jan. 23, 2007 10:8 SPI-B404 Surgical Complications ch01 A History of Surgical Complications 13 practice.
23, 2007 10:8 SPI-B404 14 Surgical Complications ch01 A. Chapman tells us. This will come about by the judicious application of the red-hot cautery iron to the affected part, followed three days later by soothing salves of sulphur and oil. Indeed, the cautery was one of Albucasis’ favourite therapeutic devices when treating infection or even cutting the flesh, for (as Celsus had noted) such surgical wounds, while especially painful at the time, stood the best chance of healing by first intention, though no one at the time knew why.
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