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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.
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 ...
American Osteopathic Board of Emergency Medicine: AORN: Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses: APGAR: American Pediatric Gross Assessment Record (a backronym) APA: American Psychiatric Association: APN: Advanced practice nurse: ARA: American Rheumatological Association: ARRT: American Registry of Radiologic Technologists: ASCEPT
Pronunciation follows convention outside the medical field, in which acronyms are generally pronounced as if they were a word (JAMA, SIDS), initialisms are generally pronounced as individual letters (DNA, SSRI), and abbreviations generally use the expansion (soln. = "solution", sup. = "superior").
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Anesthesiology, anaesthesiology or anaesthesia is the medical specialty concerned with the total perioperative care of patients before, during and after surgery. [1] It encompasses anesthesia, intensive care medicine, critical emergency medicine, and pain medicine. [2]
The medical professional also assesses if the patient has had any recent traumas and the severity of perioperative stresses such as blood loss, fluid shifts, and hypotension. Clinical signs and symptoms are assessed to indicate any cardiovascular system complications, specifically hemodynamic instability and vital signs .
used exclusively in veterinary medicine sig. signa, signetur: write (write on the label) s̄ sine: without (usually written with a bar on top of the s) sing. singulorum: of each SL, s.l. sub lingua: sublingually, under the tongue SOB shortness of breath sol. solutio: solution s.o.s., si op. sit si opus sit: if there is a need s.s., SS