RT Journal
A1 Organ CH, Jr
T1 THe impact of technology on surgery
JF Archives of Surgery
JO Archives of Surgery
YR 1999
FD November 1
VO 134
IS 11
SP 1175
OP 1177
DO 10.1001/archsurg.134.11.1175
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.134.11.1175
AB 
WE ARE a technology-driven profession. The use of technology in surgery since World War II has introduced revolutionary changes in surgical practice. Surgical intensive care monitoring, renal dialysis, open heart surgery, transplantation, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the linear accelerator, pacemakers, serum channel autoanalyzers, diagnostic radioisotope studies, and minimally invasive surgery are examples of such progress. Technology is the totality of the means employed to provide objects necessary for human sustenance and comfort.1