 Elective Surgical Procedures
"Elective Surgical Procedures" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Surgery which could be postponed or not done at all without danger to the patient. Elective surgery includes procedures to correct non-life-threatening medical problems as well as to alleviate conditions causing psychological stress or other potential risk to patients, e.g., cosmetic or contraceptive surgery.
| Descriptor ID |
D017558
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E04.249
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| Concept/Terms |
Elective Surgical Procedures- Elective Surgical Procedures
- Surgical Procedures, Elective
- Procedures, Elective Surgical
- Surgical Procedure, Elective
- Elective Surgical Procedure
- Procedure, Elective Surgical
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Elective Surgical Procedures" by people in this website by year, and whether "Elective Surgical Procedures" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2003 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2005 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2006 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2007 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2008 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2009 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 2010 | 0 | 4 | 4 | | 2011 | 2 | 4 | 6 | | 2012 | 1 | 7 | 8 | | 2013 | 5 | 1 | 6 | | 2014 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 2015 | 6 | 5 | 11 | | 2016 | 1 | 4 | 5 | | 2017 | 1 | 5 | 6 | | 2018 | 2 | 5 | 7 | | 2019 | 5 | 3 | 8 | | 2020 | 7 | 8 | 15 | | 2021 | 3 | 4 | 7 | | 2022 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2024 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2025 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Elective Surgical Procedures" by people in Profiles.
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Wu BCB, Carroll AM, Chanes N, Rosenberg DS, Kirsch MJ, Aftab M, Reece TB. Impact of planned concomitant coronary artery bypass grafting on risk of major adverse cardiovascular events in elective aortic hemiarch surgery. J Cardiothorac Surg. 2025 Apr 21; 20(1):215.
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Templeton TW, Alex G, Eloy JD, Stollings L, Ing RJ, Cheon EC, Belani K, Breskin I, Sebel PS, Taicher BM. BIS Guided Titration of Sevoflurane in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Elective Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Paediatr Anaesth. 2025 Apr; 35(4):277-286.
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Wisniewski AM, Challa S, Strobel RJ, Norman AV, Yarboro LT, Yount K, Kern J, Mazzeffi M, Teman NR. Does Timing Matter? The Effect of Intensive Care Unit Arrival Timing on Elective Cardiac Surgery. Ann Thorac Surg. 2025 Feb; 119(2):451-459.
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Moore E, Wohlauer MV, Dorosh J, Kabeil M, Malgor RD, O'Banion LA, Lopez-Pena G, Gillette R, Colborn K, Cuff RF, Lucero L, Ali A, Koleilat I, Batarseh P, Talathi S, Rivera A, Humphries MD, Ly K, Harroun N, Smith BK, Darelli-Anderson AM, Choudhry A, Hammond E, Costanza M, Khetarpaul V, Cosentino A, Watson J, Afifi R, Mouawad NJ, Tan TW, Sharafuddin M, Quevedo JP, Nkansah R, Shibale P, Shalhub S, Lin JC. Impact of COVID-19 on patients undergoing scheduled procedures for chronic venous disease. Vascular. 2025 Apr; 33(2):367-375.
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Adams BG, Rhon DI, Cameron KL, Zosel KL, Hotaling BR, Westrick RB. Timing of Outcomes and Expectations After Knee Surgery in the US Military: A Systematic Review. Sports Health. 2024 Nov-Dec; 16(6):1009-1020.
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Beller JP, Strobel RJ, Teman NR. 'Everybody's working for the weekend': demonstrating the safety of elective cardiac surgery on the weekend. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2022 05 27; 61(6):1389.
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Hu A, Reiter AJ, Gerardo R, Skertich NJ, Lewit R, Ghani M, Witte A, Kang HS, Richards H, Perry B, Tian Y, Mehl SC, Gonzalez A, Novotny NM, Haynes J, Aranda A, Zamora IJ, Rhee D, Fialkowski E, Slater BJ, Van Arendonk K, Gosain A, Lopez ME, Raval MV. Association between COVID-19 related elective surgery cancellations and pediatric inguinal hernia complications: A nationwide multicenter cohort study. Surgery. 2022 09; 172(3):989-996.
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Vickery TW, Aasen DM, Zhuang Y, Smith TL, Getz AE, Kingdom TT, Ramakrishnan VR, Suh JD, Sammel M, Beswick DM. Postoperative length of stay after elective CSF leak repair: Costs and outcomes. Int Forum Allergy Rhinol. 2022 09; 12(9):1208-1211.
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Kovar A, Carmichael H, Jones TS, Hosokawa P, Goode CM, Overbey DM, Jones EL, Robinson TN. Early identification of patients at risk for delayed recovery of ambulation after elective abdominal surgery. Surg Endosc. 2022 07; 36(7):4828-4833.
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Mallenahalli S, Fifolt M, Gundeti M, Lakshmanan Y, Gargollo P, Ost MC, Dangle PP. Survey of COVID-19 impact on pediatric urology services. Can J Urol. 2021 10; 28(5):10834-10840.
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