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Pre-Operative
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Health Care
Undergraduate 1
03/11/2009
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Term

 SURGICAL SITE LOCATIONS

 Definition

1)     Hospital

 

2)     Surgical-center attached to a hospital

 

3)     Free-standing surgical center

 

4)     Physician’s office

 

5)     Ambulatory Surgery*
Term

5)     Ambulatory Surgery*

Has three stages, name them.

Definition

a.     Outpatient Surgery

b.    Short-stay Surgery

c.     Same-Day-Surgery
Term

What are the PURPOSES OF SURGERY?

 Definition

Diagnostic

Curative  

Palliative  

  • Palliative  Allows physician to confirm diagnosis; biopsy, endoscopy
  • Results produces a cure; appendectomy, hysterectomy
  • What are the 2 kinds of CLASSIFICATION OF SURGERY
    		•  Definition

    Seriousness (has 2 types)

    Urgency (Has three types)
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