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Chapter 28: Surgery
Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abdominal Prep | Cleansing the skin/preparing for surgery |
| Elective Surgery | Chosen or not fatal to health |
| Emergency Surgery | Preformed to save life or limbs |
| General Anesthetics | Causes numbness or loss of sensation in the entire body |
| Local Anesthetics | Causes loss of sensation or numbness in part or the body |
| NPO | No food or drink after midnight before surgery |
| Skin Prep | Shaving the area of the body where operation will be performed |
| Spinal Anesthetics | Causes loss of feeling in a large area of the body usually including the legs and feet |
| Unconsciousness | Unaware of the environment occurs in sleep, fainting, or stuper |
| Anesthesia | Loss of feeling or sensation in part of or all of the body |
| Anesthesiologist | Medical doctor who administrates the anesthetic in the operating room |
| Anesthetics | Drug used to produce loss of feeling. Can be given orally, rectally, or by injection |
| Anesthetist | RN who assists the Anesthesiologist |
| Postoperative | After surgery |
| Preoperative | Before surgery |
| Scrotal Prep | Procedures for making the male genital ready for surgery |
| Vaginal Prep | Procedures for making the female genital ready for surgery |
| Void | To urinate |
| Complication | Unexpected condition such as developement of an illness in a patient who is already sick |
| Aspirate | Inhaling of vomitous food or liquids in to the lungs |