Emergency operations, which must, in the interests of the patient to be carried out immediately,urgent surgery, which should be within a specified short period of time completed (24 hours) and Electoral operations, better be described as elective surgery. Here the time of surgery may be nearly free.
An operation met under the current legal situation in Germany the offense of assault. So it is lawful only if both a justification exists. Normally one exists in the patient's consent, after it has been informed of the planned surgery. To avoid the risk of criminality, which was the Enlightenment and the consent of the patient is usually documented with a consent form.
In Germany in 2006, around 12.6 million surgeries were performed. The leader among the operations carried out in 2006 in Germany, surgery on the musculoskeletal system (3.3 million), followed by surgery on the digestive tract (2 million), and operations on skin and subcutaneous tissue (900,000) were.
Worldwide, around seven million patients annually suffer complications from surgery. Half of these cases could be prevented. This conclusion is a U.S. study for the WHO, has first determined the total number of surgical procedures worldwide. Accordingly, there are 234.2 million per year worldwide operations. The global average each year is therefore operates one of 28 people. While in developed countries from 0.4 to 0.8 percent of all interventions to death come, the death rate in developing countries lie between 5 and 10 percent. The analysis also shows: the richest third of the world's population receives nearly three-quarters of all the interventions, the poorest third of only 3.5 percent.
Were evaluated for the study, surgical data from 56 of the 192 WHO member states in 2004 and then was extrapolated. All attached with cuts interventions were included that were performed in the operating room and for at least a local anesthetic was necessary.
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