| A History of Limb Amputation Contributor(s): Kirkup, John R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1849966028 ISBN-13: 9781849966023 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $246.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Surgery - General - Medical | Anesthesiology - Medical | Orthopedics |
| Dewey: 616.009 |
| Physical Information: 0.41" H x 7" W x 10" (0.76 lbs) 184 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book opens with a unique historical review of natural amputations due to congenital absence, disease, frostbite, animal trauma, and to punishment and ritual. The advent of surgical amputation and its difficulties form a major part of the book, summarising the evolution of the control of haemorrhage and infection, pain relief, techniques, instrumentation, complications, prostheses, results and case histories. Alternative procedures, increasingly important in the last two centuries, are also debated. |