Perioperative_Nursing_Flashcards
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refers to the total span of nursing intervention and the role of the nurse during the phases of the patient’s surgical intervention.
Perioperative Nursing Care
a common treatment for injury disease or disorder, where the surgeon intervenes by repairing, removing, or replacing body tissues or organs.
Surgical Intervention
the art and science of treating diseases, injuries, and deformities by operation and instrumentation. It is invasive because an incision is made into the body.
Surgery
the phase that begins with the decision that surgical intervention is necessary and ends when the patient is transferred to the operating room.
Preoperative Phase
the period during which the patient is undergoing surgery in the operating room, ending when the patient is transferred to the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU).
Intraoperative Phase
the phase that lasts from the patient’s admission to the recovery room through the complete recovery from surgery.
Postoperative Phase
Impairment to the flow of vital fluids like blood, bile, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) that impedes or prevents passage or progress.
Obstruction
A hole in an organ or tissue, such as perforation in the gastrointestinal tract.
Perforation
The rupture of an organ.
Erosion
Abnormal growths or a solid mass of tissue that forms when abnormal cells group together.
Tumor
surgery performed to confirm the presence of a disease.
Diagnostic Surgery
surgery performed to determine the extent of a disease condition.
Exploratory Surgery
surgery performed to treat a disease condition, which may involve the removal, repair, or reconstruction of an organ.
Curative Surgery
surgery performed to relieve distressing signs and symptoms, but not necessarily to cure the underlying condition.
Palliative Surgery
surgery performed to inhibit the transformation of precancerous lesions or benign tumors.
Preventive Surgery
surgery performed to improve physical appearance.
Cosmetic Surgery
the removal of an appendix.
Appendectomy
the removal of the uterus.
Hysterectomy
the removal of an ovary.
Oophorectomy
the removal of a breast.
Mastectomy
the removal of a lung.
Pneumonectomy
the removal of tonsils.
Tonsillectomy
the removal of the gallbladder.
Cholecystectomy
