NUR 220 Perioperative
- what are the three types of surgeries
Answer elective, urgent, and emergent
- describe elective surgery
Answer based on patient choice - remove, repair, restore function, improve self concept, etc. (cataracts, boob job, scar revision)
- describe urgent surgery
Answer necessary for patient health, usually done within 24-48 hours to prevent further damage (removal of tumor, gallbladder, colon resection)
- describe emergent surgery
Answer must be done to preserve life - control hemorrhag- ing, tracheostomy, etc.
- What is ablative surgery?
Answer excision or removal of diseased body part
- what is palliative surgery
Answer Surgery to reduce intensity of disease/symptoms but not to cure disease
- what does the suffix ectomy refer to
Answer removal or excision 1 / 2
- what does lysis mean
Answer destruction of - electrolysis is an example; it uses electric current to destroy
- what does the suffix orrhaphy mean
Answer repair or suture of (hernia repair = herniorrhaphy)
- what does the suffix oscopy mean
Answer looking into
- what does the suffix ostomy refer to
Answer creating an opening into
- what does the suffix otomy refer to
Answer cutting in to - tracheotomy for example
- what does the suffix plasty mean
Answer repair
- as an RN what should we always ask a woman 12-55 prior to surgery
Answer when her last menstrual cycle was or if there is an possibility of pregnancy
- what are we most concerned about with obese patients if they are having surgery
- / 2
Answer healing deficits, respiratory function, and the anesthesia being taxing on the heart