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Finding a Surgeon
Finding a surgeon refers to the process of choosing a doctor with specialized training in one or more branches of surgery to perform a specific...

Choosing a Surgeon
While you will probably not be golfing with him or her anytime soon (nor would you likely want to!), you should learn a few things about the person...

Choosing a Surgery Specialist
While you will probably not be golfing with him or her anytime soon (nor would you likely want to!), you should learn a few things about the person...

Preoperative Preparation
There will be many healthcare professionals working to make sure you have an excellent outcome from your surgery. Besides the surgeons, there are...

Preparing For Surgery: Preoperative Studies
Many people do not realize that there are a great number of things that need to occur well in advance of the day of surgery. There are a number of...

What Could Be Happening During Your Surgery
As surgical techniques advance in sophistication, there are a number of intraoperative procedures that could be taking place during your surgery....

What to Expect on the Day of Surgery
Surgery can be somewhat frightening even for the bravest among us. You are only partially clothed, everywhere you look people are dressed in masks...

A Primer on Robotic Surgery
When people first hear the term robotic surgery it is hard not to imagine a robot plucked straight from a science fiction movie standing over a patient...

Recovering from Surgery – What to Expect
Surgery recovery is the sequence of steps that occurs from the point at which you awake from anesthesia to the point at which you are fully healed...

Surgery Demographics – Security and Confidentiality
Surgery demographics are the statistics compiled about the age, gender, race and other characteristics of those undergoing surgery. Essentially surgery...

Surgery Recovery Period
The period after your surgery, called the recovery period, is a very important part of your overall surgical experience. The ease with which you...

Joint Aspiration Surgery
Joint aspiration or arthrocentesis is one of the more rewarding procedures in medicine because it can be both diagnostic and therapeutic. When a patient...

One Day Surgery
Day surgery refers to a surgical procedure that takes place in a single working day, from preoperative preparation, the surgical procedure, postoperative...

Minimally Invasive Surgery
There are two main ways to think about minimally invasive surgery: as a collection of minimally invasive surgical procedures and as a way of approaching...

Cauterization Definition and Tools
Cauterization has been used as a method of wound closure since ancient times. Severed limbs suffered in battle were burned to stop bleeding and, while...