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  2. Perioperative - Wikipedia

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    The perioperative period is the period of a patient's surgical procedure. [1] It commonly includes ward admission, anesthesia, surgery, and recovery.Perioperative may refer to the three phases of surgery: preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative, though it is a term most often used for the first and third of these only - a term which is often specifically utilized to imply 'around' the ...

  3. Perioperative medicine - Wikipedia

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    Perioperative medicine is the medical care of patients from the time of contemplation of surgery through the operative period to full recovery. Perioperative care may be provided by an anesthesiologist , intensivist , internal medicine generalist or hospitalist working with surgical colleagues.

  4. Postoperative wounds - Wikipedia

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    Postoperative wounds are those wounds acquired during surgical procedures. Postoperative wound healing occurs after surgery and normally follows distinct bodily reactions: the inflammatory response , the proliferation of cells and tissues that initiate healing , and the final remodeling .

  5. Surgical site infection - Wikipedia

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    An infection is designated as an SSI if it develops at the site of a surgical wound, either because of contamination during surgery or as a result of postoperative complications. For the infection to be classified as an SSI, it should occur within 30 days after surgery or within 1 year if an implant is involved.

  6. Perioperative mortality - Wikipedia

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    Most perioperative mortality is attributable to complications from the operation (such as bleeding, sepsis, and failure of vital organs) or pre-existing medical conditions. [ citation needed ] . Although in some high-resource health care systems, statistics are kept by mandatory reporting of perioperative mortality, this is not done in most ...

  7. Prosthetic joint infection - Wikipedia

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    Whereas late infections (occurring 3 months or later after the joint replacement) are usually due to coagulase negative staphylococcus or cutibacterium. [4] The highest risk of PJI is in the immediate post-operative period, when direct inoculation of bacteria into the joint space may occur during surgery. [4]

  8. Abdominal surgery - Wikipedia

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    Infection; Paralytic ileus: short-term paralysis of the bowel; Perioperative mortality, any death occurring within 30 days after surgery; Shock; Sterile technique, aseptic post-operative care, antibiotics, use of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist, and vigilant post-operative monitoring greatly reduce the risk of these complications. Planned ...

  9. Antibiotic prophylaxis - Wikipedia

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    Antibiotics can be effective in reducing the occurrence of such infections. Patients should be selected for prophylaxis if the medical condition or the surgical procedure is associated with a considerable risk of infection or if a postoperative infection would pose a serious hazard to the patient's recovery and well-being. [4]