Surgical Decision Making : Beyond the Evidence Based Surgery

Rifat Latifi

ISBN 10: 3319806610 / ISBN 13: 9783319806617

Published by Springer International Publishing, 2018

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This text provides a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview of the major issues specific to the surgical decision-making process. These include patient's anatomy and pathophysiology as well as the magnitude of the injury at hand, the surgeon's own physiologic and mental status, training and experience, and many other factors such as creativity, leadership skills, and overall 'biochemistry' of the environment. The text reviews theoretical as well as objective information that surgeons use to make intraoperative decisions in situations, often with very limited data; decisions that will decide betweena patient'sliving or dying, such as in trauma surgery and other complex surgeries. How surgeons choose one technical approachover anotherin these situations is covered. This book fills a critical need for resource materials on these topics and includes both theoretical as well as practical presentations of many typical patients seen in operating rooms aroundthe world. Surgical Decision Making: Beyond the Evidence Based Surgery is written by academic and clinical practicing surgeons that face intraoperative decisionsituationson a daily basis and therefore provides a unique and valuable resource in the fieldfor surgeons currently in training and for those already in clinical or research practice.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Surgical Decision Making : Beyond the Evidence Based Surgery
• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3319806610
• ISBN 13: 9783319806617
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu

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Synopsis

This text provides a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview of the major issues specific to the surgical decision-making process.  These include patient’s anatomy and pathophysiology as well as the magnitude of the injury at hand, the surgeon's own physiologic and mental status, training and experience, and many other factors such as creativity, leadership skills, and overall "biochemistry" of the environment. The text reviews theoretical as well as objective information that surgeons use to make intraoperative decisions in situations, often with very limited data; decisions that will decide between a patient's living or dying, such as in trauma surgery and other complex surgeries. How surgeons choose one technical approach over another in these situations is covered. This book fills a critical need for resource materials on these topics and includes both theoretical as well as practical presentations of many typical patients seen in operating rooms aroundthe world.      

Surgical Decision Making: Beyond the Evidence Based Surgery is written by academic and clinical practicing surgeons that face intraoperative decision situations on a daily basis and therefore provides a unique and valuable resource in the field for surgeons currently in training and for those already in clinical or research practice.  

About the Author

Rifat Latifi
Westchester Medical Center
Department of Surgery
100 Woods Road
Valhalla, NY  10595
tel:  520-268-2545
rifat.latifi@gmail.com