The volume offers a comprehensive overview of voice rehabilitation after total laryngectomy through a multidisciplinary approach which is the result of the collaboration between otolaryngology specialists and speech therapists. After a short introduction on total laryngectomy and voice recovery, the volume discusses patient selection for voice prosthesis. The following part describes the surgical steps for […]
A practical and succinct guide to neurophysiological monitoring for safer brain tumor surgery The surgical treatment of infiltrating brain tumors is an extremely challenging and often highly rewarding facet of neurosurgery. The decision-making process involves deeply human interconnections with patients and relatives, cutting-edge neuroscience, and fascinating technology. Video Atlas of Neurophysiological Monitoring in Surgery of […]
Procedure induced anxiety affects the majority of children undergoing medical intervention and has been directly linked to behaviour disturbances, psychological trauma, phobias and symptoms of PTSD. Despite this, there is currently no formal training relating to the management of procedure induced anxiety for medical personnel caring for children. A distillation of more than eighty years […]
The Camberwell Assessment of Need for adults with Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities (CANDID) is a widely used tool for the assessment of health and social needs of people with intellectual disabilities and mental health problems. It uses the assessment approach adopted by CAN, the world’s leading mental health needs assessment measure. Two versions of the […]
A state-of-the-art resource on successful management of intraocular lens monovision Pseudophakic Monovision: A Clinical Guide by renowned ophthalmologic surgery experts Fuxiang Zhang, Alan Sugar, and Graham Barrett reflects decades of robust academic research, with comprehensive discussion of the pseudophakic lens. Pseudophakic monovision is frequently used as a strategy for presbyopia correction in cataract surgery patients, […]
O α. καθηγητής Μαιευτικής-Γυναικολογίας του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών Κωνσταντίνος Ν. Πρεβεδουράκης στους πέντε τόμους της σειράς «Ενδιαφέροντα θέματα Μαιευτικής-Γυναικολογίας», που έτυχαν θερμής υποδοχής από την ελληνική ιατρική κοινότητα, εξετάζει με περιεκτικό και ευσύνοπτο τρόπο περισσότερα από 28 θέματα της ειδικότητας που διακόνησε κατά την ευδόκιμο ακαδημαϊκή του σταδιοδρομία. Τα θέματα κάθε τόμου αποτελούν έγκυρες ανασκοπήσεις της […]