emergency surgery
Urgent medical procedure
Emergency surgery is an operation performed urgently to address a life-threatening or rapidly deteriorating condition.
Unlike elective procedures, which can be scheduled at convenience, emergency surgery happens within hours or minutes of diagnosis: She was rushed into emergency surgery after the car accident.
The term covers everything from emergency appendectomies to trauma operations.
- life or deathMaximally high stakes
- cardiac tamponadePressure strangling the heart
- open heartEmotional receptiveness, unguarded
- laparotomyAbdominal cavity access cut
- infection riskLikelihood of disease transmission
surgeon · scalpel · bowel obstruction · ectopic pregnancy · survival rate · appendicitis · on the table · surgical team · golden hour · code blue · thoracotomy · triage · craniotomy · splenectomy · sutures · scrub nurse · anesthesiologist · internal bleeding
- medical aidmedical aid, doctor, medical relief, surgeon, hospital
- emergency surgerytrauma care, surgical teams, surgical tools, resuscitation, hemorrhage
- emergency medicalambulance, EMS, ER, EMT, paramedic
- surgeriesappendectomy, hysterectomy, mastectomy, cholecystectomy, tonsillectomy
- surgerysurgeon, surgeons, operation, incision, scalpel
- military medicinecombat medics, combat medic, field hospitals, army surgeon, combat medicine
emergency surgeryelective surgery
Non-urgent chosen operation
outpatient surgery · day surgery · minor surgery · preventive surgery