Meaning of perioperative in English:
perioperative
Pronunciation /ˌpɛrɪˈɒp(ə)rətɪv/
adjective
Medicine
(of a process or treatment) occurring or performed at or around the time of an operation.
- ‘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.’