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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. Preoperational anxiety - Wikipedia

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    Preoperational anxiety, or preoperative anxiety, is a common reaction experienced by patients who are admitted to a hospital for surgery. [1] It can be described as an unpleasant state of tension or uneasiness that results from a patient's doubts or fears before an operation.

  5. Medication costs - Wikipedia

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    Medication costs can be the selling price from the manufacturer, that price together with shipping, the wholesale price, the retail price, and the dispensed price. [3]The dispensed price or prescription cost is defined as a cost which the patient has to pay to get medicines or treatments which are written as directions on prescription by a prescribers. [4]

  6. List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions - Wikipedia

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    continue same treatment cuj. cujus: of which c.v. cras vespere: tomorrow evening cyath. cyathus: a glassful cyath. vinos. cyathus vinosus: a wine-glassful D, d. die [or] dosis: days [or] doses: ambiguous meaning, write out "days" or "doses" D5LR dextrose 5% in lactated Ringer's solution (intravenous sugar solution) D5NS

  7. Glossary of medicine - Wikipedia

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    The anterior communicates with the lacrimal artery by means of small branches which perforate the zygomatic bone and great wing of the sphenoid. Definitive treatment – Medical treatment generally accepted as most appropriate for the condition. Deltoid muscle – is the muscle forming the rounded contour of the human shoulder.

  8. Watchful waiting - Wikipedia

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    Watchful waiting (also watch and wait or WAW) is an approach to a medical problem in which time is allowed to pass before medical intervention or therapy is used. During this time, repeated testing may be performed.

  9. Golden hour (medicine) - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] While initially defined as an hour, the exact time period depends on the nature of the injury and can be more than or less than this duration. [2] It is well established that the person's chances of survival are greatest if they receive care within a short period of time after a severe injury; however, there is no evidence to suggest ...