Define the following medical terms

1. circulating nurse
2. elective surgery
3. informed consent
4. atelectasis
5. emergency surgery shock
6. preoperative phase
7. perioperative nursing
8. intraoperative phase
9. laryngospasm
10. urgent surgery
11. pulmonary embolism
12. scrub nurse
13. local anesthesia
14. major surgery
15. introspective
16. pneumonia
17. postoperative phase thrombophlebitis
18. malignant hyperthermia

BRIEF ANSWERS

1. Circulating nurse

He or she is a registered nurse charged with the responsibility of making preparations for

operation alongside monitoring patients and helping surgical staff continually. A circulating

nurse works in the operating room, which is outside the sterile field where the surgical operation

takes place, ensuring that the operating room is sterile and makes progress records of the

operation, handles specimens, and accounts for the operation instruments (Raheem, et al., 2017).

2. Elective surgery

It refers to the surgery that is scheduled in advance as it involves no medical emergency.

Thus, it is a surgery that is subjected to choice, and it…………………………………………………..