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C A Sweet

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Technology fuels hope for patients with epilepsy.

Technological advances are making surgery a viable option for people with medically intractable epilepsy. More temporal lobectomies are being performed on young adults, fueled by recognition that many consequences of growing up with epilepsy can be avoided with early surgery.

Adult↗

Laser light: waves of the future.

The use of lasers is becoming more prevalent in the health care arena. Lasers can perform functions from lightening spider veins to correcting nearsightedness. Nurses must become familiar with lasers as 21st century medicine becomes a reality.

Humans↗

Today's promising heart frontier: minimally invasive surgery.

Cardiovascular disease claims more lives annually than the next eight leading causes of death combined. The biggest heart problem in the United States is congested "plumbing," afflicting more than 13 million Americans. Open-heart surgery estimated to be a $30 billion-a-year business.

Cardiac Surgical Procedures↗