Minimally invasive medicine has the goal of providing health care with minimal trauma. When minimally invasive surgery is utilized, it reduces the length of hospital stays, lowers costs, lowers pain, and reduces blood loss. Other minimally invasive techniques minimize radiation exposure, tissue damage, and drug side effects. Collecting contributions from workers in various fields within the sphere of minimally invasive medical technology, this book provides essential information for those involved with researching, designing, and using minimally invasive devices and systems. It emphasizes the technology required to accomplish minimally invasive medicine. The book will be of interest to biomedical engineers, medical physicists, and health care providers who want to know the technical workings of their devices and instruments.
| ISBN: | 9780750307338 |
| Publication date: | 1st January 2001 |
| Author: | John G. Webster |
| Publisher: | Institute of Physics Publishing an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 334 pages |
| Series: | Series in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering |
| Genres: |
Biotechnology Environmental science, engineering and technology Biomedical engineering Life sciences: general issues Medical physics |