Vocabulary
Surgical removal of the spleen.
What is Splenectomy?
Leading cause of death in pediatric patients
What is Accidents?
What refers to patients whose body weight is 100 pounds greater than ideal body weight
what is morbid obesity?
The pancreas produces little or no insulin, and the individual must have daily, regular doses of insulin.
What is Type 1 Diabetes?
When surgery acceptable for pregnant patients
What is Emergent or Urgent?
Concept that medical treatments of a trauma victim within the first hour following injury improves patient outcome.
What is Golden Hour?
Emergency treatment for hypovolemic shock in pediatric patients
What is an infusion of hypotonic solution of sodium chloride?
what device may be required when transferring the patient to the OR table if the patient cannot move on his own.
What is mechanical lifting device?
Name some of the complications a diabetic patient is at higher risk for during surgery
What is Tachycardia, nephropathy, coronary artery disease, infection, hypertension and myocardial infarction, control of postoperative blood glucose level?
Abdominal procedures are best performed in this trimester when the fetus is stable and major organs are well differentiated.
What is the second trimester?
An opportunistic infection, that causes painful lesions, usually as a result of AIDS.
What is Kaposi's Sarcoma
A child under 6 months cannot do this.
What is shiver?
Obese patients are at risk of what and this risk increases during a prolonged surgical procedure
What is DVT?
Deep Venous Thrombosis
A technique that is of paramount importance when operating on a diabetic patient
What is strict sterile technique
What are three important items to remember when general anesthesia must be used
What is the increase in risk for preterm labor, fetal death, and low birth weight?
An abnormal contracted state of a muscle
What is torticollis?
The first initial sign of post- operative infection.
What is Fever?
The postoperative anesthetic time is increased because of what
What is storage in adipose tissue?
This person is not required to take insulin after being diagnosed with this type of diabetes.
what is type-2 diabetes (non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus)?
There is a 40 percent risk of premature labor for procedures performed in this trimester.
What is third trimester?
A potentially lethal disease of newborns caused by excessive accumulation of the bile pigment bilirubin
What is Kernicterus?
Aids in the diagnosis of pneumothorax in children.
What is a chest radiograph?
The three most common complications after gastric bypass or gastroplasty surgery?
What are abdominal catastrophes, internal hernia, and acute gastric distention?
Six conditions that must be prevented when operating on diabetic patients
What is Ketonuria, Acetonuria, Ketoacidosis, Hyperglycemia, Hypoglycemia, and hypoglycemic shock.
Immediate operative intervention is done for what emergencies during Pregnancy
What is ectopic pregnancy, appendicitis, trauma injury, or incompetent cervix?