Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The oldest known surgical amputation was carried out in Borneo about 31,000 years ago. [10] The operation involved the removal of the distal third of the left lower leg. The person survived the operation and lived for another 6 to 9 years. This is the only known surgical amputation carried out before the Neolithic Revolution and its farming ...
The operative report is dictated right after a surgical procedure and later transcribed into the patient's record. The operative report includes preoperative and postoperative diagnoses, patient condition after surgery, all medications used in association with the procedure, pertinent medical history (Hx) , physical examination (PE), consent ...
1813–1883 – James Marion Sims vesico-vaganial surgery [36] [94] [95] Father of surgical gynecology. [43] [96] 1816 – René Laennec invents the stethoscope. 1827 – 1912 – Joseph Lister antiseptic surgery [36] [59] [97] Father of modern surgery [98] 1818 – James Blundell performs the first successful human transfusion.
Maxillofacial Surgery: Procedure to lift depressed fractured zygoma via temporal approach Gundersen flap: Trygve Gundersen: Ophthalmology: Procedure to replace a damaged section of cornea with part of the conjunctiva: Hadfield's procedure: Geoffrey John Hadfield: Oncologic Surgery, Breast surgery
Surgery [a] is a medical specialty that uses manual and instrumental techniques to diagnose or treat pathological conditions (e.g., trauma, disease, injury, malignancy), to alter bodily functions (e.g., malabsorption created by bariatric surgery such as gastric bypass), to reconstruct or alter aesthetics and appearance (cosmetic surgery), or to remove unwanted tissues (body fat, glands, scars ...
The standardized format for the history starts with the chief concern (why is the patient in the clinic or hospital?) followed by the history of present illness (to characterize the nature of the symptom(s) or concern(s)), the past medical history, the past surgical history, the family history, the social history, their medications, their ...
Many surgical procedure names can be broken into parts to indicate the meaning. For example, in gastrectomy, "ectomy" is a suffix meaning the removal of a part of the body. "Gastro-" means stomach. Thus, gastrectomy refers to the surgical removal of the stomach (or sections thereof).
When surgery was used, it involved the use of surgical instruments to penetrate the mother. Usually this procedure ended in the death of both the fetus and the mother. [ 92 ] Soranus of Ephesus wrote that purging, carrying heavy weights, and the injection of olive oil into the vagina or uterus, were all procedures used to carry out abortions.