Leading a Surgical Revolution: The Ao Foundation - Social Entrepreneurs in the Treatment of Bone Trauma

by Jean-Pierre Jeannet

This book describes the 60-year history of the AO Foundation and its impact on the treatment of bone trauma.

Originally founded by a group of Swiss surgeons, the AO has since established its osteosynthesis treatment approach to trauma, using surgery and implants, as the global standard. The AO successfully convinced the medical community that surgery of bone trauma was superior to the standard conservative treatment using plaster...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030019799
• ISBN13: 9783030019792
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 401 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"