### science | surgery:

Ambulatory surgery
* allows the patient to return home the same day as the surgery.
* practical alternative for many people having elective surgery.

### science | surgery:

Arthroscopic surgery
* can provide relief if pain persists.
* involves the use of small instruments and small incisions.
* is endoscopic surgery performed on joints such as the knee or shoulder
  - how doctors operate on a patient without having to fully cut open the body
  - needed to repair or remove large torn pieces of cartilage
* is performed by an arthroscopic team in an operating room
  - orthopedic surgeons
  - on an outpatient basis
  - used on joint problems
* procedure done in an operating room to look inside the knee.

Breast surgery
* can affect milk supply.
* is one of the most popular types of cosmetic surgery.

Cardiac surgery
* causes desensitization of the beta-adrenergic receptor system of human lymphocytes.
* increases surgical complexity.
* is sometimes necessary to correct heart defects
  - very complex and many patients suffer major complications after an operation

Carotid surgery
* has a particular risk of stroke and heart attack.
* is one way surgeons eliminate the blockage.

### science | surgery:

Cataract surgery
* Most cataract surgery is done under local anesthesia with intravenous sedation
  - performed using local anesthesia
* becomes necessary when cataracts adversely affect daily activities.
* can affect the retina in very rare cases
  - be sutureless and with topical or retrobulbar anesthesia
  - cause a change in the eye's pressure
* common procedure performed regularly.
* day surgery procedure, and doesn t require general anesthesia.
* highly successful medical procedure.
* involves making a small incision in the eye.
* involves removing the cloudy lens and replacing it with an artificial lens
  - eye's natural lens, and replacing it with an artificial one
* is almost always an outpatient procedure, done under local anesthesia
  - an outpatient procedure performed by an ophthalmologist
  - common and nearly always performed on an outpatient basis
  - extremely effective at restoring vision in the great majority of people
  - eye surgery
* is now a frequently performed operation in most parts of the world
  - the most common operation performed in Australia
  - often successful in restoring vision in such cases
  - one of the most advanced procedures in the world
* is one of the most common and successful medical procedures in the world today
  - and successful surgical procedures in modern medicine
  - surgical procedures and has a high success rate
  - routine and successful surgical procedures
* is one of the most successful surgeries
  - surgical procedures in medicine
  - safest and most successful surgical procedures
  - performed almost exclusively as an outpatient procedure
* is performed on an out-patient basis utilizing eyedrop anesthesia
  - outpatient basis, with topical or local anesthesia
  - using a microscope
  - when the lens of the eye, which focuses light rays, becomes cloudy
* is the most commonly performed operation in elderly people in developed countries
  - type of eye surgery
  - today the most common surgical intervention world wide
  - very successful in restoring vision
* removes an ageing, opaque lens.
* safe, highly successful and common surgical procedure.

Corrective surgery
* can prevent most cataracts from causing blindness.
* is used to reconstruct the external genitalia.

Craniofacial surgery
* consists of operations on the soft tissues and bones in the head and face.
* focuses on the correction of deformities of the bones of the skull and face.

Ear surgery
* is kind of a creative surgery that is mechanical and reconstructive
  - micro-surgery
* mechanical way to fix the problem.