surgical units
Hospital procedure areas
Surgical units are hospital departments or facilities where operations are performed.
The term covers both the physical spaces—operating rooms and their support areas—and the medical teams staffed there.
A surgical unit may specialize: the cardiac surgical unit, the outpatient surgical unit.
In military contexts, surgical units are mobile medical teams capable of operating near combat zones.
- organ transplantMoving tissue between bodies
- hospitalsInstitutions treating the sick
- emergency careImmediate medical intervention
- appendectomySurgery removing vestigial organ
- operating tableSurgical procedure surface
scrub nurse · clinics · recovery room · anesthesiologist · general anesthesia · laparoscope · endoscope · prep room · retractors · operating room · surgical team · scrubbing in · sterile field · surgical mask · maternity wards · cutting edge · coronary bypass · ICU
- hospitalshospital, ER, emergency room, ICU, operating room
- hospital facilitiesemergency rooms, ICUs, operating rooms, patient rooms, surgical suites
- military medicinecombat medics, combat medic, field hospitals, combat medicine, field hospital
- war medicinecombat medic, combat medics, field hospital, field hospitals, medic
- naval medicinecorpsman, naval hospital, naval doctors, nurse corps, sickbay
surgical unitsoutpatient clinics
Medical facilities without overnight stays
laboratory facilities · diagnostic centers · rehabilitation units · waiting rooms
surgical unitshome care
Assistance provided at residence
community health centers · mobile clinics · walk-in clinics · field hospitals · telehealth services