One of the most common elective surgical procedures in animals is neutering.

It funds more than NZ$605m of healthcare services each year, mostly for elective surgical procedures.

Accordingly, patients should be screened for anemia at least 30 days prior to an elective surgical procedure.

Hospitals in Westchester are expanding ambulatory facilities and offering patients more elective surgical procedures.

Hassab operation, an elective surgical procedure in portal hypertension.

Funerals and elective surgical procedures were cancelled.

By definition, autologous cells are obtained from one's own body, just as one may bank his or her own blood for elective surgical procedures.

It is likely that the creation of the internal market, if it does emerge, will be heavily concentrated towards elective surgical procedures.

Again, a concentration upon elective surgical procedures may mean a reduced provision of other acute services, to the detriment of the older age groups.

Finally, while any elective surgical procedure carries some risk, the advances in cosmetic surgery have translated into faster patient recovery and more natural appearing results.

There are six operation tables in the O.T. Complex which are run simultaneously for elective surgical procedures.

Hassab's decongestion operation is an elective surgical procedure to treat esophageal varices in patients with portal hypertension as a result of cirrhosis of the liver.

They could, for example, necessitate the rationing of blood by postponing elective surgical procedures, like hip replacement surgery and other nonemergency procedures, he said in a separate interview.

"In the last six months, we've noticed a significant increase in people seeking elective surgical procedures in anticipation that they might be losing their health benefits," Mr. Riney said.

Priority must be given "to the kid who cracked his car up and is bleeding all over the E.R." Elective surgical procedures that require transfusions may have to be postponed.

Other common elective surgical procedures in the USA are declawing in cats (onychectomy), ear-cropping in dogs, and tail docking in dogs and horses.

Southern Cross Hospitals, established in 1979, is New Zealand's largest private-hospital network, with 16 wholly owned and joint-venture surgical facilities that deliver more than 60,000 elective surgical procedures annually.

Doctors last struck in May 1988, also over backlogs, when a State Comptroller's report showed that 37,131 people were on waiting lists of up to three years for a wide range of elective surgical procedures.

Phase 2, a further 20% decrease, would result in "reductions in elective surgical procedures", "prioritisation of equipment for sterilisation", sourcing oxygen supplies from interstate and restricting patients' showers to "four minutes, second daily".

Last week Quebec proposed to lift a ban on private health insurance for several elective surgical procedures, and announced that it would pay for such surgeries at private clinics when waiting times at public facilities were unreasonable.

The fact is that liposuction is a far more gentle elective surgical procedure, which removes fat cells from various parts of the body with a long thin tube called a cannula, attached to a suction apparatus inserted through tiny incisions in the skin.

It is particularly noteworthy that outpatient referrals to the surgical specialties increased as outpatient referrals to these specialties are likely to lead to inpatient admissions for elective surgical procedures which could incur a substantial charge on the practice budget.

And, Palermo says, pushing his body to the limits in a continuing effort to undo the damages of a gunshot wound is also something he has no choice but to do, even if it means having taken to the operating table for an extraordinarily dangerous elective surgical procedure.

Since 1 April 2009 all providers of care funded by the National Health Service (NHS) in England have been required to provide Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in four elective surgical procedures: hip replacement, knee replacement, varicose vein surgery and hernia surgery.,.