Surgical Procedures, Operative - Psychology
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Patient anxiety and conscious surgery.

30 May 2009 The amount of surgery undertaken on the conscious patient is increasing. However, many patients are anxious and resistant to such surgery. Patients (n = 214) were surveyed to determine their related apprehensions. Being awake, feeling or seeing the ... Read more...

[Effect of the music-therapy under spinal anesthesia]

30 May 2009 BACKGROUND: Since no pre-medication has been widely accepted especially in spinal anesthesia, anesthesiologists should manage the control of patient's anxiety during surgery. Instead of sedatives, we have been using music-therapy during spinal ... Read more...

Spiritual dimensions of the perioperative experience.

29 Apr 2009 Nurses recognize the importance of spiritual care for facilitating healing and positive outcomes. Nurses caring for patients in highly technical surgical environments have unique opportunities and challenges when attending to patients' spiritual ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Surgical Procedures, Operative - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Dull to sharp ... 30 Jul 2009
• [Boom in geriatric surgery. Eliminating fear of the knife in the elderly] 21 Jul 2009
• [Geriatric surgery discriminated. Health care badly prepared to meet old patients] 30 May 2009
• Patient anxiety and conscious surgery. 30 May 2009
• [Effect of the music-therapy under spinal anesthesia] 30 May 2009
• Spiritual dimensions of the perioperative experience. 29 Apr 2009
• A parent in the operating theater: a survey of attitudes. 30 Mar 2009
• [A tool to evaluate preoperative anxiety in the operating room] 15 Mar 2009
• I often read that patients should find out how much experience a doctor and hospital has with a particular procedure before deciding who should operate on you and where the surgery should be done. How exactly does one do that kind of research? I also hear about the importance of getting a second opinion, but how do you do that without offending your own doctor? Does insurance usually cover second opinions? 27 Feb 2009
• Managing intraoperative stress: what do surgeons want from a crisis training program? 24 Feb 2009
• [Medical series on television. What effects do the have on surgical patients? (interview by Maria Weiss)] 13 Jan 2009
• [Cognitive deterioration after surgery] 10 Jan 2009
• Perioperative assessment of psychological state and quality of life of head and neck cancer patients undergoing surgery. 7 Jan 2009
• [Postoperative cognitive dysfunction can be connected to 1-year mortality. The role of anesthetics is not yet clear] 30 Dec 2008
• [Cognitive failure after surgery--a multidisciplinary challenge] 30 Dec 2008
• Psychological aspects in day-case surgery. 11 Dec 2008
• [Cognitive deterioration after surgery] 29 Nov 2008
• Surgery and parental separation as potential risk factors for abnormal eating attitudes-longitudinal study. 30 Oct 2008
• [Troubles felt in the central surgery suite of an hospital in Marseilles: what relevant factor?] 21 Oct 2008
• Pre-induction hypokalaemic phenomenon in Nigerian adult population. 29 Sep 2008

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Technical information about 'Surgical Procedures, Operative'

Definition: Operations carried out for the correction of deformities and defects, repair of injuries, and diagnosis and cure of certain diseases. (Taber, 18th ed.)

Descriptor UI: D013514

Alternative terms: Surgical Procedures, Operative; Operative Surgical Procedure; Operative Surgical Procedures; Procedures, Operative Surgical; Surgical Procedure, Operative; Operative Procedures; Operative Procedure; Procedure, Operative; Procedures, Operative; Procedure, Operative Surgical; Surgery, Ghost; Ghost Surgery;

Related Mesh Headings: Intraoperative Complications; Operating Rooms; Postoperative Complications; Reoperation; General Surgery;

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects; classification; economics; education; legislation & jurisprudence; methods; mortality; nursing; psychology; rehabilitation; standards; trends; utilization; veterinary; statistics & numerical data; contraindications; ethics;

Tree Number: E04;

Online Note: pre-explosion = SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE (PX)

History Note: 98(63)

Technical Notes: not the field nor specialty ( = GENERAL SURGERY); only the surgery patient or surgical procedures; prefer /surg with organs or disease; /instrum = SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS or SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; surgical injury = SURGICAL INJURIES see INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS: see TN 179; /hist = GENERAL SURGERY /hist; differentiation from GENERAL SURGERY: Manual 26.15+; unnecessary surgery = SURGERY, UNNECESSARY see UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES (IM) + specific surg procedure (IM); SECOND-LOOK SURGERY and REOPERATION are also available