Adult Health nursing CH2 boxs/terms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Ambulatory (outpatient) | Patient who enters setting, has surgical prrocedure, and is discharged on the same day |
| Same-day admit | Patient who enters hospital and undergoes surgery on the same day and remains for convalescence |
| Major surgery | Involves extensive reconstruction or alteration in body parts; posses great risks to well being |
| Minor surgery | Involves minimal alteration in body parts;often designed to correct deformities; involves minimal risks compared with those of major procdures |
| Diagnostic surgery | surgical exploration that allows physician to confirm diagnosis; may involve removal of tissue for further diagnostic testing |
| Palliative | Surgery for relief or reduction of intensity of disease symptoms; will not produce cure |
| Reconstructive | Restoration of function or appearance to traumatized or malfunctioning tissue |
| Constructive | Restoration of function lost or reduced as result of congenital anomaliies (repair of cleft palate |
| Anastomosis | Surgical joining of two ducts or blood vessels to allow flow from one to another; to bypass an area |
| -ectomy | surgical removal of |
| lysis | destruction or dissolution of |
| -orrhaphy | surgical repair of |
| -oscopy | direct visualization by a scope |
| -otomy | opening into |
| -otomy | opening into |
| -pexy | fixation of |
| -plasty | plastic surgery |
| inpatient | patient hospitalized for surgery |
| one-day (same-day surgery) | patient admitted the day surgery is scheduled and dismissed the same day |
| outpatient | patient not hospitalized admitted either to a shortstay unit or directly to the surgical suite |
| shortstay surgical center ("surgicenter") | independentlyowned agency; surgery performed when overnight hospitalization is not required (also called ambulatory surgical center or one-day surgery center) |
| Mobile surgery unity | units that move from place to place ; go to the patient instead of the patient traveling to the unit |
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