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| Overview of modern surgery |
| 2008-02-20 05:19:00 |
Although it is sometimes difficult to determine when a medical procedure is considered surgery,a medical treatment that involves a cutting of a patient's live tissue (e.g., hair and nails are dead tissue) is usually considered surgery of some sort. A medical procedure involving a drilling of live tissue in a body would often be considered surgery, but mere piercing of a body is not necessarily surgery since piercing is often done for taking samples or draining fluids from or injecting materials into the body, or setting up intravenous drip, and usually does not require suturing to close the pierced opening. Even if a medical procedure or treatment does not include cutting or drilling of live tissue in a body, it may be considered surgery, if it involves c...
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| Replantation |
| 2008-02-15 04:00:00 |
Replantation is the reattachment of a completely detached body part. Fingers and thumbs are the most common but the ear, scalp, nose, arm and penis have all been replanted. Generally replantation involves restoring blood flow through arteries and veins, restoring the bony skeleton and connecting tendons and nerves as equired.Initially, when the techniques were developed to make replantation possible, success was defined in terms of a survival of the amputated part alone. However, as more experience was gained in this field, surgeons specializing in replantation began to understand that survival of the amputated piece was not enough to ensure success of the replant. In this way, functional demands of the amputated specimen became paramount in guiding which amputated pieces should and should...
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| Techniques and procedures |
| 2008-02-11 00:00:00 |
Common techniques used in plastic surgery are: * incision * excision * microsurgery * chemosurgery * electrosurgery * laser surgery * dermabrasion * liposuctionIn plastic surgery the transfer of skin tissue (skin grafting) is one of the most common procedures. (In traditional surgery a “graft” is a piece of living tissue, organ, etc., that is transplanted. * Autografts: Skin grafts taken from the recipient. If absent or deficient of natural tissue, alternatives can be: o Cultured Sheets of epithelial cells in vitro. o Synthetic compounds (e.g., Integra--a 2 layered dermal substitute consisting superficially of silicone and deeply of bovine tendon collagen with glycosaminoglycans). * Allografts: Skin g...
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| Bleeding |
| 2007-10-29 04:36:00 |
Before modern surgical developments, there was a very realthreat that a patient would bleed to death before treatment, orduring the operation. cauterization (fusing a wound closed with extreme heat)was successful but limited - it was destructive, painful and in the long term hadvery poor outcomes. Ligatures, or material used to tie off severed blood vessels,are believed to have originated with Ambroise Pare (sometimes spelled "Ambrose"[5])during the 16th century, but were highly dangerous until infection risk was broughtunder control - at the time of its discovery, the concept of infection did not exist.Finally, early 20th century research into blood groups allowed the first effective bloodtransfusions....
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| plastic surgery |
| 2007-04-14 00:55:00 |
Plastic surgery is a specialty that uses surgical techniques to change the appearance and function of a person's body. Some of these operations are called "cosmetic", and others are called "reconstructive". The word "plastic" derives from the Greek plastikos meaning to mold or to shape; its use here is not connected with the synthetic polymer material known as plastic....
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| Ancient India Indian physician Sushruta (c. 600 B... |
| 2007-02-22 13:42:00 |
Ancient India Indian physician Sushruta (c. 600 BC) taught and practiced surgery on the banks of the Ganges in the area that corresponds to the present day city of Benares in Northern India. Much of what is known about Sushruta is contained in a series of volumes he authored, which are collectively known as the Susrutha Samhita. It is the oldest known surgical text and it describes in exquisite detail the examination, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of numerous ailments, as well as procedures on performing various forms of plastic surgery, such as cosmetic surgery and rhinoplasty.In the Sushruta school, the firs...
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| Ancient Egypt Researchers have uncovered an Ancien... |
| 2007-02-22 13:41:00 |
Ancient Egypt Researchers have uncovered an Ancient Egyptian mandible, dated to approximately 2650 BC, with two perforations just below the root of the first molar, indicating the draining of an abscessed tooth. Recent excavations of the construction workers of the Egyptian pyramids also led to the discovery of evidence of brain surgery on a labourer, who continued living for two years afterwards....
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| Ancient Greece While surgeons are now considered t... |
| 2007-02-22 13:41:00 |
Ancient Greece While surgeons are now considered to be specialised physicians, the profession of surgeon and that of physician have different historical roots. For example, Greek tradition was against opening the body, and the Hippocratic Oath warns physicians against the practice of surgery. Specifically, cutting persons laboring under the stone (i.e.lithotomy, an operation to relieve kidney stones) was to be left to such persons as practice [it]. Of course, most knowledge of surgery comes from dissecting bodies, a science which was repulsive to many healers....
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| Medieval Europe Abucasis was an Andulusian - Arab ... |
| 2007-02-22 13:40:00 |
Medieval Europe Abucasis was an Andulusian - Arab physician and scientist who praticised in the Zahra suburb of Cordova. He is considered a great medieval surgeon, whose comprehensive medical texts, combining Middle Eastern and Greco-Roman classical teachings, shaped European surgical procedures up until the Renaissance. He is often regarded as the Father Of Surgery. Patients and students from all parts of Europe came to him for treatment and advice. According to Will Durant, Cordova was in this period the favourite resort of Europeans for surgical operations. Surgery in Holland (ca. 1690) By the thirteenth century, many European towns were demanding that physicians have several years of study or training before th...
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| Europe Ambroise Pare pioneered the treatment of wo... |
| 2007-02-22 13:38:00 |
Europe Ambroise Pare pioneered the treatment of wounds by gunshots. Among the first modern surgeons were battlefield doctors in the Napoleonic Wars who were primarily concerned with amputation. Naval surgeons were often barber surgeons, who combined surgery with their main jobs as barbers. In London, an operating theatre or operating room from the day before modern anasthesia or antiseptic surgery still exists, and is open to the public. It is found in the roof space of St Thomas Church, Southwark, London and is called the Old Operating Theatre....
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| SURGERY |
| 2007-02-22 06:42:00 |
Surgery (from the Greek χειρουργική meaning "hand work") is the medical specialty that treats diseases or injuries by operative manual and instrumental treatment. Surgeons may be physicians, dentists, or veterinarians who specialize in surgery. A surgery can also refer to the place where surgery is performed, or simply the office of a physician, dentists, or veterinarians...
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