Glossary

A specialist in cardiothoracic surgery is a physician who conducts operations on chest organs, including the heart, lungs, and esophagus. The heart and lungs are crucial bodily organs, supplying blood and oxygen throughout your system.

General anesthesia is a medical treatment that uses drugs to put a patient into a state of controlled unconsciousness. It's used to keep patients from feeling pain and moving during surgery or other procedures.

General anesthesia is a medical treatment that uses drugs to put a patient into a state of controlled unconsciousness. It's used to keep patients from feeling pain and moving during surgery or other procedures.

A Local Muscle Flap is a surgical procedure that involves moving muscle tissue from one part of the body to another, typically to cover a wound or defect.

Local Tissue Rearrangement, also known as adjacent tissue transfer (ATT/R), is a medical procedure that involves moving healthy tissue from one part of the body to cover a skin defect or lesion in another part of the body. The tissue that is moved is called a local flap and is usually taken from a donor Read More

A Local Tissue Transfer, also known as an adjacent tissue transfer (ATT/R) or rearrangement procedure, is a medical procedure that moves healthy tissue from one part of the body to cover a skin defect in another part. The tissue that is moved is called a local flap. Local Tissue Transfers can be used to repair Read More

Local anesthesia combined with monitored anesthesia care (MAC) is a type of anesthesia that involves a combination of sedation, pain control, and local numbing of the surgical site.

A multi-staged procedure is a series of medical procedures performed over multiple sessions or days.

Sternal Reconstruction is a surgical procedure that stabilizes the chest wall to reduce the risk of respiratory complications and prolonged mechanical ventilation. The goal is also to protect the mediastinum and minimize deformity.

Surgical Debridement is a medical procedure that removes dead, damaged, or infected tissue from a wound to help it heal.

Surgical exploration is a type of surgery that involves looking inside the body to diagnose an ailment. It's also known as exploratory surgery.