This six-volume work is an alphabetically organized compilation
of almost 300 articles that describe critical aspects of
medical devices and instrumentation.
It is comprehensive. The articles emphasize the contributions
of engineering, physics, and computers to each of the
general areas of anesthesiology, biomaterials, burns, cardiology,
clinical chemistry, clinical engineering, communicative
disorders, computers in medicine, critical care
medicine, dermatology, dentistry, ear, nose, and throat,
emergency medicine, endocrinology, gastroenterology,
genetics, geriatrics, gynecology, hematology, heptology,
internal medicine, medical physics, microbiology, nephrology,
neurology, nutrition, obstetrics, oncology, ophthalmology,
orthopedics, pain, pediatrics, peripheral vascular
disease, pharmacology, physical therapy, psychiatry, pulmonary
medicine, radiology, rehabilitation, surgery, tissue
engineering, transducers, and urology.
The discipline is defined through the synthesis of the core
knowledge from all the fields encompassed by the application
of engineering, physics, and computers to problems in
medicine. The articles focus not only on what is now useful
but also on what is likely to be useful in future medical
applications.