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Glossary TermsAmbulatory surgery | Informed consent | Intraoperative phase | Perioperative phase | Postoperative phase | Preadmission testing | Preoperative phase | Anesthesia | Anesthesiologist | Anesthetic agent | Anesthetist | Circulating nurse | Epidural anesthesia | General anesthesia | Local anesthesia | malignant hyperthermia | Moderate sedation | Monitored anesthesia care | Regional anesthesia | restricted zone | Scrub role | Semi-restricted zone | Spinal anesthesia | Surgical asepsis | Unrestricted zone | Dehiscence | Evisceration | First-intention healing | Phase I PACU | Phase II PACU | Phase III PACU | Post-anesthesia care unit (PACU) | Second intention healing | Third intention healing |
| | Periods of SurgeryPRE-OPERATIVE PERIOD
- Patient teaching
- Consent
- Physical prep.
- psychological prep. | INTRA-OPERATIVE PERIOD
Nurse is patient advocate
Scrub nurse: maintains sterile nurse integrity and monitors equipment
Circulating nurse: Protects patient safety, monitors OR conditions, documents, monitor team activities | POST-OPERATIVE PERIOD
To PACU
Recovery: clinical unit or discharged home |
Classification of Surgery1. Emergency | Immediately | 2. Urgent | 24-30h | 3. Required | Upcoming weeks | 4. Elective | Should have | 5. Optional | Not necessary |
| | Suffixes-ectomy | Remove body part | -tomy | make an incision | -scopy | Observe with scope | -pathy | disease | -rhage | rupture | -oma | cancer/tumour | -itis | inflammation | -logy | study of | -megaly | enlargement of | -rhea | flowing | -lysis | decomposition |
Prefixeschole- | r/t cholesterol, bile, gall | Lapar- | r/t abdominal wall | Dys- | abnormal | Cyst- | r/t bladder, cyst, sac | Lith- | stone or rock | Carcin- | cancer | Neo- | new/young | Ortho | straight/upright | Trans- | Across, beyond |
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