Emerging Technologies in Surgery

Part I. Introduction

1. Overview of Emerging Technologies
Achille Lucio Gaspari, Antonio Manzelli

2. Economics of New Surgical Technologies
Michael S. Kavic, Amy E. Waitman

3. The Scientific, Social, and Ethical Implications of Disruptive Technologies
Richard M. Satava

Part II. Education and Training

4. The World Virtual University and the Internet: http://www.websurg.com
Jacques Marescaux, Didier Mutter

5. Virtual Reality: Objective Assessment, Education, and Training
Anthony G. Gallagher, E. Matt Ritter

6. Organizing Surgical Simulation Centers in Response to Disruptive Technologies
Mark W. Bowyer

7. Ideal VR systems: Is There a “Holy Grail” in Simulation System Land?
Nicola Lorenzo

8. The Medical Informatics Challenge in Surgery
J. Sutherland, Timothy Ganous

Part III. Robotics and Novel Surgical Approaches

9. Robotics in General Surgery: Today and Tomorrow
Federico Moser, Santiago Horgan

10. Evolving Endoluminal Therapies
Jeffrey L. Ponsky

Part IV. Innovations in Surgical Instruments

11. Microtechnology in Surgical Devices
Marc O. Schurr

12. Innovative Instruments in Endoscopic Surgery
Gerhard F. Bueß, Masahiro Waseda

13. New Hemostatic Dissecting Forceps with a Metal Membrane Heating Element
Eiji Kanehira, Toru Nagase

14. Radiofrequency and Hepatic Tumors
Piero Rossi, Adriano Majo

15. Technological Innovations in Kidney and Liver Living-Donor-Related Transplantation
Enrico Benedetti

Part V. Bioengineering

16. Tissue Engineering
Michael Shin, Joseph Vacanti

Part VI. Beyond the Future

17. Adapting to Future Technologies
Richard M. Satava

Avainsanat: Medicine & Public Health, Surgery, General Surgery, Interventional Radiology, Transplant Surgery