inpatient surgery
Overnight surgical procedure
Inpatient surgery is a surgical procedure that requires the patient to be admitted to a hospital for at least one overnight stay.
The term distinguishes these operations from outpatient surgery, where patients go home the same day.
Major operations—open-heart surgery, organ transplants, complex orthopedic repairs—typically require inpatient care for monitoring and recovery: She was in the hospital for five days after her inpatient surgery.
- hospitalMedical treatment facility
- operatingActively in function
- anesthesiaInduced loss of feeling
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
- scalpelPrecise surgical knife
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- surgeryoperation, incision, scalpel, suture, sutures
inpatient surgerynon-invasive treatment
Care without penetrating body
conservative treatment · medical management · watchful waiting · physical therapy · medication therapy
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