Biomedical Engineering in Gastrointestinal Surgery is a combination of engineering and surgical experience on the role of engineering in gastrointestinal surgery. There is currently no other book that combines engineering and clinical issues in this field, while engineering is becoming more and more important in surgery. This book is written to a high technical level, but also contains clear explanations of clinical conditions and clinical needs for engineers and students. Chapters covering anatomy and physiology are comprehensive and easy to understand for non-surgeons, while technologies are put into the context of surgical disease and anatomy for engineers. The authors are the two most senior members of the Institute for Minimally Invasive Interdisciplinary Therapeutic Interventions (MITI), which is pioneering this kind of collaboration between engineers and clinicians in minimally invasive surgery. MITI is an interdisciplinary platform for collaborative work of surgeons, gastroenterologists, biomedical engineers and industrial companies with mechanical and electronic workshops, dry laboratories and comprehensive facilities for animal studies as well as a fully integrated clinical "OR of the future".

Die Aufhebung zeitlicher und raumlicher Grenzen durch den Einsatz der Telemedizin wirft eine Fulle rechtlicher Fragen auf. Auf dem 7. Einbecker Workshop der DGMR haben sich Experten der Medizin und des Rechts, Praktiker, Wissenschaftler und Angehoerige der Koerperschaften im Gesundheitswesen mit diesen Rechtsfragen beschaftigt und einen Empfehlungstext erarbeitet, der national und international grosse Beachtung fand. Die "Einbecker Empfehlungen zu Rechtsfragen der Telemedizin" sind zusammen mit den Referaten in diesem Werk wiedergegeben. Sie bilden die Grundlage fur die Weiterentwicklung rechtlicher Loesungen fur nationale und internationale Telemedizin.