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Lecturer in MSN
I. People need surgery for many reasons:-
II. To find the reason for a problem
III. To help reduce that problem
IV. Replace or take out tissue or organ
V. Surgery may also carry out as an
emergency
VI. To save the patient's life
VII. To correct an anatomical or physiological
defect
VIII. To provide therapeutic intervention
IX. To treat the pathological disease and
injury.
I. Ectomy = removal by cutting
II. Orrhaphy = suture of or repair
III. Oscopy = looking into
IV. Ostomy = formation of a permanent
artificial opening
V. Otomy = incision or cutting into
VI. Plasty = formation or repair
What is meant by
perioperative?
Preoperative Intra-
phase operative
phase
Post operative
phase
Preoperative phase:- The preoperative phase
begins with the decision that surgical
intervention is necessary and ends when the
patient is transferred to the operating room
table
Intraoperative phase:- it is a period during
which the patient is undergoing surgery in the
operating room. Its ends when the patient is
transferred to the post anesthesia recovery
room. During this period the patient is
monitored, anesthetized, prepped, and the
operation is performed.
Postoperative phase:- The postoperative phase
lasts from the patients admission to the
recovery room through the complete recovery
from surgery. After the patient condition has
been stabilized in the recovery room, a physician
will order the patient transfer to another area of
the facility.
Preoperative Assessment