postoperative care

Preferred Label : postoperative care;

MeSH definition : The period of care beginning when the patient is removed from surgery and aimed at meeting the patient's psychological and physical needs directly after surgery. (From Dictionary of Health Services Management, 2d ed);

MeSH synonym : care, postoperative;

MeSH hyponym : postoperative procedures; Postoperative Procedure; Procedure, Postoperative; Procedures, Postoperative;

MeSH annotation : DF: POSTOP CARE;

Details

Origin ID

D011182;

UMLS CUI

C0032786;

Allowable qualifiers
- adverse effects [MeSH Qualifier]
- classification [MeSH Qualifier]
- contraindications [MeSH Qualifier]
- economics [MeSH Qualifier]
- education [MeSH Qualifier]
- ethics [MeSH Qualifier]
- history [MeSH Qualifier]
- instrumentation [MeSH Qualifier]
- legislation and jurisprudence [MeSH Qualifier]
- methods [MeSH Qualifier]
- mortality [MeSH Qualifier]
- nursing [MeSH Qualifier]
- psychology [MeSH Qualifier]
- rehabilitation [MeSH Qualifier]
- standards [MeSH Qualifier]
- statistics and numerical data [MeSH Qualifier]
- trends [MeSH Qualifier]
- veterinary [MeSH Qualifier]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Post-surgical wound care (regime/therapy) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Postoperative care (regime/therapy) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Postoperative procedure (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Postoperative procedures (procedure) [Inactive SNOMED CT concept]
- after surgery [MedlinePlus Topic]
Record concept(s)
- postoperative care [MeSH concept]
- postoperative procedures [MeSH concept]
See also
- physical therapy modalities [MeSH Descriptor]
See also (suggested by CISMeF)
- aftercare [MeSH Descriptor]
- postoperative period [MeSH Descriptor]
See also inter- (CISMeF)
- post-operative assessment [SYNODOS term]
Semantic type(s)
- Health Care Activity [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Postoperative care [MedDRA Preferred Term]
- Postoperative care (regime/therapy) [SNOMED CT concept]

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