Surgical nursing -- Problems, exercise, etc : Critical thinking study guide for : Ignatavicius, Workman & Mishler : Medical-surgical nursing across the health care continuum / Elaine Kennedy, Donna D. Ignatavicius
Here is entered literature relating to the risks and accidents of surgical operations, treatment of patients after operations, mortality, and other generalities. Works on the details of the operations themselves are entered under Surgery, Operative. Works relating especially to methods of securing asepsis are entered under Surgery, Aseptic and antiseptic
Surgery which could be postponed or not done at all without danger to the patient. Elective surgery includes procedures to correct non-life-threatening medical problems as well as to alleviate conditions causing psychological stress or other potential risk to patients, e.g., cosmetic or contraceptive surgery
Procedures of applying ENDOSCOPES for disease diagnosis and treatment. Endoscopy involves passing an optical instrument through a small incision in the skin i.e., percutaneous; or through a natural orifice and along natural body pathways such as the digestive tract; and/or through an incision in the wall of a tubular structure or organ, i.e. transluminal, to examine or perform surgery on the interior parts of the body
