Guest Editorial: Challenging issues in aesthetic surgery

Guest editorial: compelling issues in telemedicine.

R ecent and impendent changes resulting from the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) (part of Title XIII of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) of 2009 and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2011 offer unprecedented potential for telemedicine to play a significant role not only in reforming the current U.S. healthcare system b...

Guest Editorial Microscopic Surgery in Urology

Surgery of small organs or delicate anatomic structures requiring the use of optical systems as well as adequate surgical materials and skills has been called microscopicsurgery. It rests upon basic principles imposed by the intrinsic characteristics of the very fine and precise instruments used, and also by the smallness and fragility of the affected organs and tissues. Until several years ago...

Anesthesia Issues in Cardiac Surgery

The principle of anaesthesia for open-heart surgery is based on simplicity, safty and light­plane of anaesthesia. As a result of the special pathophysiology, grave general status, compli­cations threatening these patients during and after the operation and the abundance of medicines available nowadays, it is very important for the anaesthetist to be acquainted with the pathophysiological and ph...

Guest Editorial: Challenging Divisions - Exploring the intersections of ethnography and intervention in IS research

Guest Editorial: Emotion in Games

1 EMOTION IN GAMES COMPUTER games can challenge affective interaction at large for a number of reasons: they arguably define the richest and most dynamic form of human computer interaction; they may elicit complex patterns of emotion at multiple and diverse facets of player immersion; they are content-intensive environments offering rich and variant contextual building blocks for player experie...