adjective

• (of a process or treatment) occurring or performed at or around the time of an operation.

  ‘perioperative deaths’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The text of this pattern describes the process of becoming a perioperative nurse.’
  • ‘No patient had perioperative complications or ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome.’
  • ‘Firstly, we look only at mortality in hospital, and results published from the database include all perioperative deaths.’
  • ‘Understanding the revenue process for a perioperative program can be overwhelming.’
  • ‘The very patients who have the most to gain in terms of added life years and quality face the highest perioperative risk of death.’