PRELIMS MS1
Cards (43)
- The delivery of patient care in the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative periods of the patient’s surgical experience through
- Verifies suspected diagnosis
- Estimates the extent of the disease or injury
- Removes or repairs damaged tissues
- Removing diseased organ that can't wait anymore (also known as emergency surgery).
- Relieves symptoms but does not cure the underlying disease process.
- Partial or complete restoration of a damaged organ/tissue to bring back the original appearance and function.
- Repairing the damaged tissue or congenitally defective organ.
- Is done totally at the client's discretion (eg. cosmetic surgery)
- Refers to procedures that are schedule at the client's convenience (e.g. cyst removal repair of scars, simple hernia, and vaginal repair)
- Is warranted for conditions necessitating intervention within a few weeks (e.g. cataract surgery, and thyroid disorder)
- Inside the body . Ex. Hysterectomy
- Outside the body. Ex. Skin Grafting
- OPET- A blockage, are dangerous because they block the flow of blood, air, CSF, urine & bile through the body.
- Is a rupture of an organ, artery or bleb.
- Break in the continuity of tissue surface.
- Abnormal growth of tissues that serves no physiologic function in the body.
- Surgeon obtains operative permit (-------- --------)
- It is part of the nurse’s role as client ________ to confirm that the client understands information given.
- Any procedure performed on the human body that uses instruments to alter tissue or organ integrity.
- A physician who treats disease, injury, or deformity by operative or manual methods. *A medical doctor specialized in the removal of organs, masses and tumors and in doing other procedures using a knife (scalpel)
- Free from living germs or microorganisms; aseptic: sterile surgical instruments
- The state of being free from pathogenic microorganisms
- A toxic condition resulting from the spread of bacteria or their toxic products from a focus of infection
- Any chemical agent used chiefly on inanimate objects to destroy or inhibit the growth of harmful organisms.
- Is a substance that prevents or arrests the growth or action of microorganisms either by inhibiting their activity or by destroying them.
- -the destruction of all living microorganisms, as pathogenic bacteria, vegetative forms, and spores. BACTERIOSTATIC -Capable of inhibiting the growth or
- Capable of killing bacteria
- Is a substance that kills bacteria ._______ are either disinfectants, antiseptics or antibiotics
- Provides sterile instruments & supplies to the surgeon during the procedure.
- Coordinates the care of the pt. in the O.R. care provided includes assisting with pt. positioning , skin prep, managing surgical specimens & documenting intraoperative events.
- Stark appearance & cool temperature. Located central to all supporting services.
- Where street clothes are allowed
- Where attire consists of scrub clothes and caps.
- Where scrub clothes, shoe covers, caps and masks are worn
- Practices under the direct supervision of the surgeon. (handling tissue, suturing, maintaining hemostasis)
- Administers the anesthetic agent & monitors the pt’s physical status throughout the surgery.
- Meaning “negative sensation.” Artificially induced state of a partial or total loss of sensation, occurring with or without consciousness.
- Temporarily interrupts the transmission of sensory nerve impulses from a specific area or region.
- Surgical procedures below the diaphragm -patients with cardiac or respiratory disease