The book encompasses Dr Baranski's 20 year experience in the field of abdominal organ donation. It is a step-by-step guide with photographs and drawings with clear explanations highlighting pitfalls. The book quickly and easily guides the reader through the difficult steps during organ procurement. It is mainly illustration-based without too much text, and also covers surgical technical mistakes and organ damage.
This is a handy pocket book guide accompanied with a CD-ROM for surgeons or senior surgical residents and fellows participating in organ procurement teams wishing to learn abdominal organ procurement or refresh their memory by referring to a particular step-by-step procedure. It will also benefit experienced surgeons in the field of organ transplantation with no organ procurement experience. TOC:Introduction: relationship between the procurement surgeon and the transplant coordinator, before, during and after abdominal organ procurement.- Position of the abdominal retractor.- Laparotomy and thoracotomy.- Abdominal organ inspection with a special anatomy of harvested organs.- Dissection of the avascular surfaces - organ mobilization.- Hepatoduodenal ligament dissection.- Dissection during small bowel procurement.- Great vessels cannulation.- Abdominal organ perfusion.- Thoracic organ procurement.- Small bowel procurement.- Pancreas and the liver procurement.- Kidney procurement.- Organ packing.- Body closing.