Lincoln Surgery Center is a state-of-the-art ambulatory surgery center, where surgeons perform a broad range of outpatient surgical procedures.
Specialties include:
- General Surgery
- Gynecology
- Pain Management
- Plastic surgery
- Orthopedics
- Otorhinolaryngology (ENT)
- Podiatry
Medical Dictionary
Ambulatory Surgery - surgery that requires less than 24 hours in the hospital or surgery center. Also called "outpatient surgery" or "same-day surgery".
- Ambulatory Surgery - surgery that requires less than 24 hours in the hospital or surgery center. Also called "outpatient surgery" or "same-day surgery".
- Anesthesia - medication that prevents pain during surgery.
- Anesthesiologist - a doctor who specializes in anesthesia.
- Drainage tube - a tube inserted at the incision site to drain excess fluid.
- General anesthesia - medication that puts you completely to sleep.
- Intravenous or IV Line - a thin tube that delivers medications, fluids, or blood directly into a vein.
- Local anesthesia - medication that numbs only the surgery site.
- MAC - monitored anesthesia care. This medication makes you drowsy or lightly asleep.
- OR - operating room. The room where surgery is performed.
- PACU - post anesthesia care unit. The recovery room where a patient may stay until anesthesia wears off.
- Regional anesthesia - medication that numbs one region of your body.
- Surgery consent - a legal form the patient signs before surgery. It states that the patient understands the risks and benefits of surgery.
- Vital signs - your temperature, heart rate, breathing rate and blood pressure.
Diagnosis & Procedures
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