Surgical

A word ending that means surgical removal.

Doing a task with the fewest, safest movements, as the scrub does when setting up and running the sterile field.

An eyelid, usually the lower one, that sags and turns outward, away from the eye.

A stretchy rolled bandage, often called an Ace wrap, wound around a limb over a dressing to add compression and support.

Surgery that is planned and scheduled ahead of time because it is not an emergency.

Injury from electric current passing through the body, from a small burn to internal damage, cardiac arrest and death.

The digital chart one hospital or clinic keeps of a patient's visits and stays there.

Using high-frequency electric current through a handheld tool to cut tissue or seal bleeding vessels during surgery.

The handheld, insulated holder for the active electrode in monopolar electrosurgery, fired by buttons on the pencil or a foot pedal.

Surgical removal of an embolus, a clot or other mass that has traveled and lodged in an artery.

Blocking a blood vessel from the inside on purpose with injected material; also, a clot or plaque breaking loose and blocking a vessel downstream.

The phase of general anesthesia from stopping the anesthetic until the patient is awake enough to leave the OR.

A confused, agitated state some patients wake in as anesthesia wears off, most often children.

Being ready, as a facility and as a person, to respond to a disaster or emergency through plans, training, drills and supplies.

A collection of pus in a body cavity, most often the pleural space around a lung.

The walling off of a foreign material, such as nonabsorbable suture or an implant, inside a layer of fibrous tissue.

A birth defect in which brain tissue, its coverings and cerebrospinal fluid bulge out through an opening in the skull.

A join between the cut ends of two tubular structures, such as bowel or blood vessels, sewn or stapled so they line up as one continuous tube.

Surgical removal of plaque from inside an artery, leaving the smooth outer wall behind.

Blood still flowing into an aneurysm sac after a stent graft has been placed to shut it off.

A serious infection or inflammation inside the eye, a dangerous complication of eye surgery or injury.

Putting a breathing tube through the mouth or nose into the windpipe (trachea).

Done from inside a blood vessel, with wires, catheters and devices passed through it under live x-ray.

A hernia of the peritoneum, often holding small bowel, that bulges down through the top or back wall of the vagina.

An eyelid margin, usually the lower one, that turns inward, so the lashes rub against the eye.

Surgical removal of the whole eyeball, after cutting its muscles and the optic nerve.

A way of wrapping an item for sterilization with the item set diagonally on the wrap and the corners folded over one at a time.

The hospital department that cleans and decontaminates every area of the facility.

An instrument cleaner that contains enzymes, which break down soils such as blood, fat and starch.

Pain relief or numbness from an anesthetic drug given through a thin catheter into the space just outside the covering of the spinal cord.

Small fat-filled tags of peritoneum that hang from the outside of the colon along its bands of muscle.

A name for a disease, sign, instrument or other thing that is taken from a person, or sometimes from a place.

A wide, stretchy rubber bandage wrapped tightly up a limb from the fingers or toes to squeeze the blood out of it before a tourniquet is inflated.

The amount of blood a patient is judged to have lost during surgery, recorded in milliliters and reported at handoff.

A colorless, flammable gas used to make plastics and other chemicals, including ethylene oxide.

A gas used at low temperature to sterilize medical items that heat or moisture would damage.

Having normal thyroid function, with thyroid hormone levels in the normal range.

The rule that a sterile package stays sterile until something happens to it, such as a tear or moisture, rather than until a date passes.

To turn outward or inside out, as when an eyelid is flipped to show its inner surface or wound edges are turned out.

The pushing out of internal organs, usually loops of bowel, through a surgical wound that has come open.

Cutting out tissue, such as a growth or damaged area, during surgery.

A biopsy that removes the whole lump or suspicious area, usually with a rim of normal tissue around it.

Surgical removal of all the contents of a body cavity; in the eye, of everything in the orbit, usually for cancer.

Surgery that opens the abdomen to look for and treat a problem that less invasive tests have not found or cannot treat.

In surgery, opening and holding a wound so the surgeon can see and reach the tissue, while the tissue held aside is protected.

Loss of so much blood that life cannot continue; in surgery, also the squeezing of blood out of a limb before a tourniquet is inflated.

Holding a broken bone in place from outside the body with a frame joined to pins or wires that go through the skin into the bone.

Taking out a breathing tube, usually at the end of anesthesia once the patient breathes well alone and the protective reflexes are back.