It has an elective operation theatre running six days a week.

Before the embargo, the doctors said they performed 35 elective operations a day.

The patient, who was later found to have cancer, should never have had the elective operation, according to the state.

Several hospitals have delayed elective operations and other procedures to limit exposure of patients to possible infection.

For certain types of elective operation, there is likely to be much more scope for choice in whether or not to let contracts.

Surgeons cancel elective operations, like heart surgery, because there will be no intensive care beds available afterwards.

Some 400 elective operations will be postponed.

Elective operations would probably be postponed and only seriously ill patients would be admitted to the hospital.

Researchers at participating centers looked at the complication rates from 604 elective operations performed on 551 sickle cell patients who were 5 months to 60 years old.

May 2008: Enfield PCT found that 272 elective operations were cancelled at the last minute for "non-clinical reasons"

It has affected most the treatment of emergency patients in the counties, Broward and Dade, but in some cases surgeons have refused to perform elective operations as well.

"We are talking about 70% of patient load of the health service that is people with long-term needs and conditions, and so often we focus on waiting times for elective operations.

Of these centers, which mostly handle elective operations, about 100 are affiliated with hospitals, about 200 are owned by private companies, and 1,200 belong to single physicians or group medical practices.

Autologous blood transfusions can also be used in many other elective operations, like plastic surgery, or for scheduled operations, like cancer surgery, that may involve extensive blood loss.

Residents assigned to the trauma service were often asked to scrub in on elective operations during the day, if they weren't busy in the intensive-care unit or in the emergency department.

Hospital Postpones Operations Another outbreak involved one death and 20 illnesses at Cook County Hospital, which has postponed 800 elective operations until the surgical ward is disinfected, officials said.

This control group represents a consecutive 18 patients chosen at random from a period midway through our experience in 1987 to 1989, who are typical of patients presenting for elective operation for ulcerative colitis.

A first emergency amputation is often done with the goal of stabilizing the person, with a second elective operation done to remove any further dead tissue and to improve the function of the remaining limb.

Blood banks had been facing acute shortages before the attacks, particularly in the New York region, where hospitals warned that the shortfall would force them to temporarily halt elective operations to keep enough blood for emergencies.

There is no danger of infection from vaccinations against disease, he assured them, and he urged Germans not to postpone vital operations, or to donate their own blood before elective operations if that would reassure them.

Cataract surgery, an elective operation, is the largest expenditure for Medicare, costing the Government about $3.4 billion a year, according to the study, which is being published today in The Journal of the American Medical Association.

The market for corrective laser surgery, an elective operation to cure myopia, started declining last year - right after Bausch won approval from the Food and Drug Administration to sell its laser device in the United States.

As state officials investigate the death of two cosmetic surgery patients treated at a hospital on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, surgeons around the city who handle elective operations say the cases have them hard at work calming jittery clients.

B3 N.J. Doctors' Walkout Expected The battle between physicians and lawyers representing injured patients will escalate today when a planned one-day walkout by thousands of doctors across New Jersey leaves private practices shuttered and elective operations postponed.