All surgeries have both benefits and risks. Make the best choice for you by learning about each, tips for preparation, and what to expect in recovery.
Major or minor, all surgeries have both benefits and risks. Make the best choice for you by learning about each, tips for preparation, and what to expect in recovery.
technician preparing scanner for patient
CT Scan vs. MRI
The Weird Way Acupuncture Helps Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Carpal Tunnel Injection or Surgery: Uses, Benefits, Side Effects & More
Surgery
Procedure vs. Surgery: Uses, Benefits, Side Effects, & More
Women going under anesthesia for surgery
Anesthesia Allergy: Causes, Symptoms, & Reducing Your Risk
Eye surgeon and person being treated at an ambulatory surgery center
Ambulatory Surgery Center vs. Outpatient Hospital: Uses, Benefits & More
Woman showing breast cancer mastectomy scar
What’s the Difference Between Top Surgery and Mastectomy?
Physician assistant checks patient in hospital bed
What Is a Physician’s Assistant?
A surgeon looking at an operating table
What You Need to Know About Ovarian Cyst Surgery
Doctor examining baby
Craniosynostosis Surgery: Overview
Surgeons team in the operating room
Total Shoulder Replacement Surgery: Everything You Need to Know
epidural for pain relief after surgery
Epidural For Pain Relief After Surgery
doctor holding a model of the prostate gland
The Purpose of Prostate Surgery
Balloon angioplasty procedure
Balloon Angioplasty: Everything You Need to Know
Ketamine In Anesthesia Induction
What Is Ketamine?
Woman with no shirt on looking down at herself
Body Asymmetry: Why Is One Hand or Breast Bigger?
Human blood for transfusion in Boston
Universal Blood Type Donors and Recipients
Surgeon tying his mask
Why Patients Are Turning to Medical Tourism
Home healthcare nurse tending to picc line of recovering patient
What Is a PICC Line?
Man going under anesthesia
The Side Effects and Complications of General Anesthesia
Doctor examining pregnant patient's belly
How Anterior Is Used to Describe Anatomy
Organ Weight
How Much Do Your Organs Weigh?
Multi-ethnic doctors operating girl at hospital
The Risk of Death From Surgery
Female doctor examining newborn baby in incubator
Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernias: Diagnosis, Surgery and Recovery
Surgeon standing in operating room
Types of Local Anesthesia Used for Surgical Procedures
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Necrosis Causes and Symptoms in the Human Body
A doctor checking a patients spleen
The Function of the Spleen
Individual having an magnetic resonance enterography.
What Is Magnetic Resonance Enterography?
Robot-assisted hysterectomy
What You Should Know About Prolapse in the Human Body
Surgeons performing surgery in operating room
Understanding Trauma and How It's Treated
Woman checking blood sugar
The Difference Between Chronic and Acute Conditions
kidneys
How the Word Bilateral Is Used in Medicine
Operating nurse soothing patient on table in operating room
Monitored Anesthesia Care or Twilight Sleep Explained
Team of nurses and surgeons in surgery
What Is General Surgery?
Close up of doctor wearing surgical gloves, holding oxygen mask over patient in operating theater
Paralytic Drugs Explained
Handing doctor surgical tool in operating room.
What Is a Vascular Surgeon?
Surgeons performing surgery in operating room
Open Surgery Overview and Pros and Cons
nurse writing on clipboard and man in hospital bed in the background
Bacteremia Causes and Diagnosis
Team of doctors performing surgery in operating theater
Prophylaxis: Definition, Types, and More
patient resting after surgery with doctor writing on a chart
What Is the Perioperative Period?
closeup of a young caucasian doctor man sitting at his office desk observing a chest radiograph in a tablet computer
What Does Pulmonary Mean in Medicine?
Nurse putting oxygen mask to patient during surgery
Preoperative Phase: What You Should Know Before Surgery
A person administering anesthesia through a tube and mask to another person
What Is an Ablation?
patient in hospital bed speaking with two surgeons
The Basics of Inpatient Surgery
Surgeons operating on patient
How in Situ Is Used During Surgery and Cancer Treatment
Human ligaments, illustration
Understanding the Multiple Meanings of the Term Cervical
Surgeon Beginning Procedure With Scalpel In Hand, Close-up
What Is a Surgical Excision?
Gastric bypass, illustration
Anastomosis Definition and Examples
What Is Intubation?
Doctor Examining Patient's Throat
Understanding Strictures in the Body
transparent urine plastic bag and pee catheter hang under patient bed in hospital
Using Foley and Other Types of Urinary Catheters
Woman getting ready for an MRI
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Concentrating surgeons performing operation in operating room
Understanding Ambulatory Surgery
Mature surgeon using scalpel during surgery
Surgical Incision Types and Care Information
surgical team in operating room
What Is a Scrub Tech?
Epidural anesthesia
How Is Regional Anesthesia Used During Surgery?
Doctor and nurse talking with patient in hospital bed
Overview of the Foley Catheter and Surgery
Orthopedic surgeon operating on a foot
How to Evaluate a Surgeon's Experience With a Procedure
Diagram demonstrating the difference between a normal heart and a heart with an atrial septal defect
Atrial Septal Defect (ASD) Explained
Father and daughter watching a digital tablet
Explaining Surgery to Your Child
Surgeon closing stitches on a patient
The Historical Timeline of Surgery