Author: Biz India

Editors: Alan David Kaye, MD; Richard D. Urman, MD; and Charles J. Fox III, MD Managing Editor: Elyse M. Cornett, PhD Publisher:  Cambridge University Press – 376 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This very wide-ranging book provides an extensive survey of all the matters and issues that need to be addressed and implemented when setting up a new operating room or enhancing an existing one, including providing a strategy of leadership for this facility, ensuing that it operates with economic viability, adequately managing it for optimum anesthesia service for surgeries, compassionate, professional, and highly-skilled nursing care, and very...

Author: Roger W. Byard Publisher:  Cambridge University Press – 685 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani At the outset, we want to inform readers that the data shown on Table 2.2 on page 9 of this book is about accidental deaths in South Australia for children aged from O to 16. Also, the general information contained in this third edition published in 2010 (two previous editions were released in 2004 and 1994) is about a decade old, as today is the third of January, 2021. Whenever we want to find current information on any topic, we turn to Wikipedia...

Editors: Eberhard Nieschlag and Hermann M. Behre Associate Editor: Susan Nieeschlag Publisher:  Cambridge University Press – 569 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani Testosterone is the main or primary sex hormone in men. It plays a key role in developing reproductive tissues for organs such as the testes and the prostate. This hormone also helps promote body hair growth, bone density, and muscle mass. Also, testosterone helps prevent bone loss (that leads to osteoporosis) and it promotes overall health and well-being. This hormone is also sometimes used as a medication to treat breast cancer, gender dysphoria, and male hypogonadism,...

Editors: Eric Legome, MD and Lee W. Schockley, MD Publisher:  Cambridge University Press – 720 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani Most books on trauma are written from a surgical perspective, the editors – Dr. Eric Legome and Dr. Lee W. Shockley – point out in the Preface to this book. But many trauma patients are first treated by doctors trained in trauma care and management in emergency departments of hospitals, where urgent attention to, and quick and correct treatment of, their specific injury and condition is critical in saving their lives. This book presents the many anatomic locations...

Author: Louis R. Caplan, MD Publisher:  Cambridge University Press – 594 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani In his Foreword to this detailed second edition of this book by Dr. Louis R. Caplan on posterior circulation disease, Dr. C. Miller Fisher that in the 1950s, “there was no therapy for the stroke patient. A stroke was a stroke was a stroke.”  What happened after that? Anticoagulants were introduced, and vascular surgery followed.  As a consequence, Dr. Miller continues: “medicine was for the first time faced with the task of investigating the pathology and pathophysiology of the many types of...