How are the current operation?

An operation (short: OP) is instrumental, surgery on or in the body of a patient for the purpose of therapy, less often of diagnostics. In general, he is under anesthesia.
As perioperative refers to the period around the operation.

When intervening in the body can be divided into three phases: access, operation in the narrow sense and closure of access.
Endoscopic operations reduce the amount of Gewebsschadens exclusively and only means of access to the operative and postoperative pain. In neurosurgical operations claimed the access, namely opening in the skull, a significant proportion of time.

To ensure freedom from pain, the surgery is performed under anesthesia in the form of general or regional anesthesia, such as spinal anesthesia, epidural anesthesia or local anesthesia. Responsible for this is the persons present during the operation with pure local anesthesia anesthesiologist or the operating surgeon or other specialist members, the surgeon. Carried out the operation - except for minor surgery - usually in a special operating room. There the patient for the procedure is located on an operating table.

The main focus deals with such procedures, the surgery, but other medical specialties (surgical trays) are based on the surgery as a healing method: gynecology, obstetrics, ear, nose and throat medicine, ophthalmology and urology.

The world's most commonly performed surgery for cataract surgery (cataract) with approximately 600.000/Jahr in Deutschland.Eine is more commonly performed surgery is cesarean section. An emergency room often performed operation is the removal of the cecal appendix (appendectomy) with appendicitis.