surgical patient
Person under anesthesia
A surgical patient is someone undergoing or recovering from a surgical procedure.
The term appears in medical contexts to distinguish from patients receiving other types of care: The surgical patients are on the third floor.
It encompasses everything from outpatient procedures to major operations requiring extended hospital stays.
- operatingActively in function
- operating roomSurgical procedure venue
- anesthesiaInduced loss of feeling
- going underFailing or submerging
- gurneyMobile patient transport bed
gown · scalpel · recovery · incision · open heart · sedated · preop · medical history · postop · ward · nurse · vital signs · blood pressure · IV · bandage · sutures · consent · next of kin
- patientsinpatients, inpatient, outpatients, outpatient
- victimsvictim, victims, casualty, survivors, fatality
surgical patientsurgeon
Physician who operates
surgical team · scrub nurse · anesthesiologist · surgical assistant · attending physician
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