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This second edition has expanded the scope and depth of the original text and includes all types of tissue adhesives, their proper indications and their uses. It also adds a final chapter on regulatory issues that contains FDA scientist George Mattamal's perspectives on all adhesives now used clinically or being evaluated by the FDA. The contributors address topics such as the history and background of tissue adhesives, clinical approaches to the use of cyanoacrylate tissue adhesives, protein polymers, and bone cements. The CD-ROM accompanying the book features video demonstrations of techniques. Annotation : 2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Next to the common cold, traumatic wounds are the commonest reason people seek medical care. There are approximately 12 million traumatic wounds and 90 million surgical procedures each year in the United States. While tissue adhesives will not and should not replace all sutures, their availablilty will change the practice of physicans and surgeons.
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He is known as The Master. A spy, double agent and freelance assassin, he has been at the top of his game for decades. The Master has worked for Nazis, Communists, intelligence agencies and terrorists alike. No one knows his true identity. Now, the world's most secretive assassin has disappeared, and several intelligence networks want him captured, interrogated and "redacted". Jack Grant, now a contract agent for the French Secret Service, is assigned to track the Master down. Hot on his heels is a deadly and beautiful CIA bounty hunter who's more than capable of hunting down both of them. But the Master has an agenda of his own, and he's ready to begin a war that will engulf them all.
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