"Preoperative Care" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Care given during the period prior to undergoing surgery when psychological and physical preparations are made according to the special needs of the individual patient. This period spans the time between admission to the hospital to the time the surgery begins. (From Dictionary of Health Services Management, 2d ed)
| Descriptor ID |
D011300
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E02.760.795 E04.604.750 N02.421.585.795
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| Concept/Terms |
Preoperative Procedure- Preoperative Procedure
- Procedure, Preoperative
- Procedures, Preoperative
- Preoperative Procedures
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Preoperative Care" by people in Profiles.
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Physical activity and exercise during preoperative pancreatic cancer treatment. Support Care Cancer. 2019 Jun; 27(6):2275-2284.
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A homotopy-based sparse representation for fast and accurate shape prior modeling in liver surgical planning. Med Image Anal. 2015 Jan; 19(1):176-86.
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A novel virtual reality environment for preoperative planning and simulation of image guided intracardiac surgeries with robotic manipulators. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2011; 163:716-22.
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Controlled induction of spherical aberration with custom soft contact lenses. Clin Exp Optom. 2009 May; 92(3):283-8.