MEDICAL SURGICAL NURSING QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Surgery - A branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of diseases, deformities, and injuries through manual procedures called operations Ectomy - Excision or removal/cutting out or off (Ex. Appendectomy) Lysis - Destruction of/removal Orraphy - Repair or suture of Oscopy - Looking into Ostomy - Creation of opening to furnish an outlet (Ex. Colonostomy) Plasty - Repair of scar or tissue revision Oma - Tumer excision of a fibroma Otomy - Cut into - thoracotomy - cut into the ches cavity Pexy - Fixation, anchor into place Perioperative period - Encompasse a client's total surgical experience, including the preoperative and postoperative phases Perioperative nursing - Activities performed by the professional nurses during the perioperative perioid Preoperative phase - Begins with the decision to perform surgery and ends with the client;s transfer to the OR table Intaoperative phase - Begins with the client is recieved in the OR and ends with his admission to the PARR or PACU Postoperative period - Begins with the client admitted to PARR and extends through follow up home care or clinic evaluation Anesthesiologist/Nursing Anesthetist - Makes a preoperative assessment to plan the type of anesthetic to be administered Professuinal Registered OR Nurse - Makes preoperative nursing assessment and documents the intra-operative client care plan Circulating nurse - Manages the OR and protects the safety and health needs of the client by monitoring the conditions in the OR Anesthesiologist - Part of the perioperative team that check patient, if patient is able to have surgery and what type of anesthesia to give Cardiologist - If anesthesiologist is doubting on what type of anesthesia to give, refer to this type of doctor. Scrub nurse - Responsible for scrubbing for surgery, including setting up sterile tables and equipments PACU nurse - Responsible for caring of the client until the client has recovered from the effects of anesthesia Orthopedic procedures - A type of surgery that carries big equipments Diagnostic - used to determine the cause of an illness or disorder Curative - tending to overcome disease and promote recovery Reconstructive - concerned with the restoration, construction, reconstruction, or improvement in shape and appearance of body structures Palliative - affording relief but not a cure Optional surgery - done totally at the clients discretion