Medische Technologie

This book deals with physical therapy for children with cerebral palsy from a functional approach. These children have motor impairments resulting from lesions of the brain arising in the early stages of development.

This thesis presents the extensive research on Doppler ultrasonography of the arterial and venous lung circulation in the normally developing human fetus and in the fetus at risk for lung hypoplasia. The results improve our understanding of fetal pulmonary hemodynamics under physiological conditions.

Adequate pain management in trauma patients in (prehospital) emergency care can be very problematic. Less than a generation ago, the prevalent attitude towards acute pain management was a widespread acceptance that pain was inevitable, and frequently professionals were often indifferent to a suboptimal approach. Nowadays, adequate pain management is understood to be a fundamental human right and integral to the ethical, patient-centred practice of modern medicine. This thesis addresses the problems of early and initial pain management in trauma patients in (prehospital) emergency care.

Dit boek is een gids voor pijnbestrijding bij trauma patiënten. Verpleegkundigen in de ambulancezorg en op de spoedeisende hulp werken dagelijks met deze patiënten. De praktijkgids bundelt de wetenschappelijke kennis uit een richtlijn en promotieonderzoek op een toegankelijke manier. Helder geordend en compact geschreven behandelt deze gids alle aspecten van de zorg voor pijn bij trauma: wat is pijn, hoe kun je pijn meten en bestrijden en tot slot hoe kun je de pijnbestrijding in de spoedzorg goed organiseren?

Illness often hides inside a body. Physicians can make it visible by using medical imaging technologies. Some of those technologies also allow patients to have a live view into their own interior. Does such real-time imaging present the ultimate example of a transparent body? Or on the contrary, do technological images of a body that is normally invisible create a sense of alienation? Maud Radstake went looking for answers in the radiology and endoscopy departments of a Dutch hospital.