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I transcribe hospital operative reports for a living, and every surgical report I transcribe alludes to all these checks and measures (marking the patient preoperatively, instrument counts, etc.) being done at every surgery.

Matthew Yglesias » Productivity and Medicine 2009

The Lung Transplant Center is comprised of a multi-disciplinary team who evaluates children with end-stage lung disease, determines if they are candidates for lung transplantation, and provides care preoperatively, peri-operatively, and following transplantation.

Pulmonary Medicine 2010

It's just another piece of necessary paperwork totally glossing over the importance of evaluating a patient preoperatively that they can foist off on someone else, because otherwise the surgeon would have to do it.

This is How "Balls" Works 1 Dinosaur 2007

It's just another piece of necessary paperwork totally glossing over the importance of evaluating a patient preoperatively that they can foist off on someone else, because otherwise the surgeon would have to do it.

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SCHWARTZ: No. The team in the operating room was pretty much the usual team, and the team in the intensive care unit is our usual team, and the people who took him preoperatively at the hospital was our usual doctors, nurses and professional staff.

CNN Transcript Sep 6, 2004 2004

We were more concerned about Erin preoperatively, because her heart, a good portion of it, resided in Jade's chest, and we were concerned about our ability to cover that, or that reorienting it might be a problem for her in terms of cardiac function.

CNN Transcript Jun 21, 2004 2004

ECKSTEIN: I think as Senator McCain said preoperatively, stay out of the sun and use sunscreen, avoid a very, very bad sunburn.

CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Doctors Proclaim McCain's Surgery a Success - August 19, 2000 2000

Mechanical bowel preparations are commonly administered preoperatively to patients who undergo a pan ...

THE MEDICAL NEWS 2010

Another possibility was that the gentamicin eluted too rapidly to add efficacy to the systemic antibiotics patients were given preoperatively, they speculated.

MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians 2010

"For example, we can use radiographic data to virtually create a 3D model of our patients, allowing us to preoperatively plan where to place an implant, plan the surgical approach for removing a tumor, or use the data to create a physical model of the missing anatomy" she said.

PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010