Sentence examples for be operated on first from inspiring English sources
Prompt starts to trauma lists are possible, as the patient has often been fully worked-up in the optimisation area on the previous day and can be operated on first.
For patients with severe radicular symptoms or a definitive diagnosis of cauda equine syndrome, the lumbar lesions should be operated on first.
The left knee was operated on first and a randomized computer-generated list decided the prosthesis to be used in either knee.
The previous delivery was normal, thought she (the wife) was operated on the first pregnancy.
The patient was operated on the second hospital day to evacuate the retroperitoneal abscess (Hartmann's operation: sigma resection, generating a colostomy with the proximal end of the descending colon and a blind rectal pouch with the proximal end of the distal segment).
Each of these NOF patients was operated on the third day from admission (Table 2).
Among the 2494 feet in our study, 69 feet were operated on the fifth toe (2.8% of the studied feet and 5.6% of the feet presenting with pathological deviations).
In all cases selected, patients were operated on between the seventh and tenth day after injury (range 2 21 days, average 8.0 days), when the soft-tissue edema had decreased and the wrinkle sign was positive on hind-foot soft tissue.
All any patient needs to know when they go into hospital, assuming they're even conscious, is "Will I receive a good standard of care?" The answer is either yes or no, and if it's a no then the hospital or doctor involved shouldn't be operating on people in the first place.
