Surgery for Congenital Heart Defects

Herausgeber: Stark, Jaroslav F; Tsang, Victor T; de Leval, Marc R / Illustrator: Courtney, Michael

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Produktbeschreibung

Over 10 years after the publication of the second edition, Wiley now publishes the third edition of the popular volume "Surgery for Congenital Heart Defects." Completely updated and expanded, this new edition describes step-by-step the surgical procedures for congenital heart defects and includes detailed illustrations for each operation. New in this edition are chapters on exercise testing, MRI, EP studies and catheter ablation of arrhythmias, extracorporeal circulatory support and paediatric lung transplantation. A greatly expanded ultrasound chapter contains numerous colour Doppler's of many conditions. "Surgery for Congenital Heart Defects, Third Edition: "Provides complete coverage of the current issues in paediatric cardiac surgeryOffers tips and surgical techniques to master difficult surgical situationsUniquely displays detailed illustrations for each operation, allowing surgeons to follow all operating procedures step-by-stepServes both as reference and training manual

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• 3rd edition
• Seitenzahl: 768
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 198mm x 48mm
• Gewicht: 1792g
• ISBN-13: 9780470093160
• ISBN-10: 0470093161
• Artikelnr.: 22784118

Autorenporträt

Mr Jaroslav Stark is emeritus consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK. Mr Marc de Leval is Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Institute of Child Health, University of London, UK. Mr Victor Tsang is consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK.

Rezensionen

"A user-friendly and instructive resource that is sure to beof great value to many physicians. Even the greenest medicalstudent wades comfortably into the depths of the text and feelsempowered by the visual feast that awaits. Medical illustratorMichael Courtney provides an abundance of impeccably detaileddrawings, the quality of which is central to the text and helps setit apart from others in the field. Excellent integration of thefigures into the text, which, coupled with the appropriateweighting of outcome measures and analyses of results, makes thetext feel manageable. The editors ... expertly maintain abalance between the extremes of encyclopedic esoteric andminimalist manuals to produce a text that will prove a cherishedresource on the desk of nearly every pediatric cardiacsurgeon." (Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine,December 2008)

"...an excellent update of a classic book...it iscomplete, well written, edited by outstanding authorities in thefield..." (Doody's Health Services)