Polymers in Drug Delivery: Fundamentals
Fig. 11.1 Medicines can be designed: (i) to exert a local effect on the application site by means of drug release and penetration in surrounding cells (a), (ii) to exert a…
Polymers in Orthopaedic Surgery
Designation Title F451-08 Standard specification for Acrylic Bone Cement F639-09 Standard specification for Polyethylene Plastics for medical applications F648-14 Standard specification for Ultra-High-Molecular-Weight Polyethylene Powder and Fabricated Form for surgical…
Overview on Cell-Biomaterial Interactions
Fig. 4.1 Mammalian cell adhesion onto a biomaterial. a Initial contact between the cell and the biomaterial conditioned with serum proteins. b Bonding between cell surface receptors and protein adhesion ligands….
Polymers in Tissue Engineering
(7.1) where p is the differential pressure across the length of the pore, D is the pore diameter, γ is the surface tension of the wetting liquid; and θ is…
Polymers in Wound Repair
Scheme 14.1 The concept of advanced wound healing products Accelerating Wound Healing with Active Agents—New Therapeutic Trends to be Combined with Polymers Growth Factors and Cytokines Growth factors are naturally occurring…
Biodegradable Natural Polymers
Fig. 2.1 Classification of biodegradable natural polymers Fig. 2.2 Chemical structures of natural polymers Natural Polymers of Plant Origin Polysaccharide Based Polymers Cyclodextrins Cyclodextrins (CDs), also known as (cycloamyloses) are cyclic oligosaccharides…
Medicine
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016Kevin Conrad (ed.)Absolute Hospital Medicine Review10.1007/978-3-319-23748-0_1 Inpatient Medicine Laura Bateman1 and Kevin Conrad2 (1) Internal Medicine Department, Ochsner Clinic Foundation, 1521 Jefferson Hwy, New Orleans, 70121, LA, USA (2) Department…
Consultative and Comanagement
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016Kevin Conrad (ed.)Absolute Hospital Medicine Review10.1007/978-3-319-23748-0_2 Consultative and Comanagement Ashley Casey1 and Kevin Conrad2 (1) Department of Pharmacy, Ochsner Medical Center, 1514 Jefferson Hwy, New Orleans, LA 70121, USA (2) Department…
Inpatient Medicine
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016Kevin Conrad (ed.)Absolute Hospital Medicine Review10.1007/978-3-319-23748-0_1 Inpatient Medicine Laura Bateman1 and Kevin Conrad2 (1) Internal Medicine Department, Ochsner Clinic Foundation, 1521 Jefferson Hwy, New Orleans, 70121, LA, USA (2) Department…
Systems Management
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016Kevin Conrad (ed.)Absolute Hospital Medicine Review10.1007/978-3-319-23748-0_3 Hospital Systems Management Marianne Maumus1 and Kevin Conrad1, 2, 3 (1) Department of Hospital Medicine, Ochsner Health Systems, 1521 Jefferson Highway, New Orleans, LA 70121,…
