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  2. Diagnostic peritoneal lavage - Wikipedia

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    This procedure is performed when intra-abdominal bleeding (hemoperitoneum), usually secondary to trauma, is suspected. [2]In a hemodynamically unstable patient with high-risk mechanism of injury, peritoneal lavage is a means of rapidly diagnosing intra-abdominal injury requiring laparotomy, but has largely been replaced in trauma care by the use of a focused assessment with sonography for ...

  3. Drain (surgery) - Wikipedia

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    An example of an internal drain is a ventriculo-peritoneal shunt, which is a tube that connects ventricles of the brain to the peritoneal cavity. This helps remove extra cerebrospinal fluid from the brain. Accurate recording of the volume of drainage as well as the contents is vital to ensure proper healing and monitor for excessive bleeding.

  4. ICD-9-CM Volume 3 - Wikipedia

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    Drainage of: intracranial hygroma, subarachnoid abscess (cerebral), subdural empyema Lobotomy and tractotomy. Percutaneous (radiofrequency) cingulotomy Other incision of brain Amygdalohippocampotomy; Drainage of intracerebral hematoma Operations on thalamus and globus pallidus Operations on thalamus Chemothalamectomy; Thalamotomy

  5. Cholecystectomy - Wikipedia

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    Cholecystectomy is the surgical removal of the gallbladder.Cholecystectomy is a common treatment of symptomatic gallstones and other gallbladder conditions. [1] In 2011, cholecystectomy was the eighth most common operating room procedure performed in hospitals in the United States. [2]

  6. Incision and drainage - Wikipedia

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    Incision and drainage (I&D), also known as clinical lancing, are minor surgical procedures to release pus or pressure built up under the skin, such as from an abscess, boil, or infected paranasal sinus.

  7. Paracolic gutters - Wikipedia

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    In supine patients, infected fluid from the right iliac fossa may ascend in the paracolic gutter to enter the lesser sac. In patients nursed in a sitting position, fluid from the stomach, duodenum, or gallbladder may run down the paracolic gutter to collect in the right iliac fossa or pelvis. This may mimic acute appendicitis or form a pelvic ...

  8. ICD-10 Procedure Coding System - Wikipedia

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    The ICD-10 Procedure Coding System (ICD-10-PCS) is a US system of medical classification used for procedural coding.The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency responsible for maintaining the inpatient procedure code set in the U.S., contracted with 3M Health Information Systems in 1995 to design and then develop a procedure classification system to replace Volume 3 of ICD-9-CM.

  9. Laparoscopy - Wikipedia

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    Rather than a minimum 20 cm incision as in traditional (open) cholecystectomy, four incisions of 0.5–1.0 cm, or, beginning in the second decade of the 21st century, a single incision of 1.5–2.0 cm, [5] will be sufficient to perform a laparoscopic removal of a gallbladder. Since the gallbladder is similar to a small balloon that stores and ...