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Detailed information on recovering from surgery and intensive care.

It's important to communicate your feelings, questions, and concerns with your healthcare provider before having surgery. Take notes, or ask a family member or friend to go with you and take notes for you. Here are some questions to get you started.

Detailed information on the surgical setting and the choices that may be available to the patient, including outpatient surgery, inpatient surgery, ambulatory surgery, and specialty surgery centers

Detailed information on surgery, including surgery statistics, surgery questions, preoperative management, intraoperative management, and postoperative management

The surgical team is made up many providers. These include a surgeon, an anesthesiologist, a certified registered nurse anesthetist, and an operating room nurse. Read on to learn more.

Learn about other surgical methods, like laser surgery and electrosurgery, that surgeons sometimes use.

As part of your diagnosis, you and your doctor may discuss surgery as a way to correct your condition.

Detailed information on chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, including asthma, chronic bronchitis, and pulmonary emphysema

A kidney stone is a hard, pebble-like deposit that forms in 1 or both kidneys. It may be as small as a grain of sand or as large as a pearl. Some are as big as golf balls. A stone may be smooth, irregular in shape, or jagged. Most are yellow or brown in color. There are different types of kidney stones.