 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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| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2002 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2003 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2005 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2006 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2007 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2008 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 2009 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 2010 | 1 | 4 | 5 | | 2011 | 3 | 5 | 8 | | 2012 | 1 | 7 | 8 | | 2013 | 5 | 4 | 9 | | 2014 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 2015 | 5 | 5 | 10 | | 2016 | 1 | 4 | 5 | | 2017 | 1 | 5 | 6 | | 2018 | 3 | 7 | 10 | | 2019 | 8 | 2 | 10 | | 2020 | 8 | 8 | 16 | | 2021 | 3 | 6 | 9 | | 2022 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2024 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2025 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Elective Surgical Procedures" by people in Profiles.
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Laykova A, Scheeres D, Zambito G, Banks-Venegoni A. Outcomes of non-obstructed gastric volvulus: Repair during the index hospitalization vs early elective setting. Am J Surg. 2026 Mar; 253:116758.
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Ning MH, Rodionov A, Ross JM, Ozdemir RA, Burch M, Lian SJ, Alsop D, Cavallari M, Dickerson B, Fong T, Jones RN, Libermann T, Marcantonio E, Santarnecchi E, Schmitt EM, Touroutoglou A, Travison T, Acker L, Smith MR, Sun H, Westover MB, Pascual-Leone Á, Berger M, Inouye SK, Shafi M. Prediction of postoperative delirium in older adults from preoperative cognition and occipital alpha power from resting-state electroencephalogram. Age Ageing. 2025 Oct 30; 54(11).
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Garofalo DM, Myers QWO, Heron CH, Wolf A, Carmichael H, Dyas AR, Mathai S, Rozeboom PD, Velopulos CG. Why Potentially Elective General Surgery Becomes Emergent: A Multi-Methods Approach. J Surg Res. 2025 09; 313:239-246.
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Clarke ZH, Hogan CA, Dayton MR, Jeffres MN, Koonce RC. Safety of Administering Cefazolin in Beta-Lactam Allergic Patients Undergoing Elective Orthopaedic Procedures. J Arthroplasty. 2025 Sep; 40(9S1):S576-S580.
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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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Goldstein DJ, Jimenez N, Faulk D, Jones J, Reece-Nguyen T, Gooden CK, Markowitz DV, Dalal PG. Sociodemographic and Systems Risk Factors Associated With Nil by Mouth Noncompliance and Day-of-Procedure Cancellations: A Retrospective Multicenter Case-Control Study. Anesth Analg. 2026 Mar 01; 142(3):525-530.
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Fernandez-Bustamante A, Parker RA, Frendl G, Lee JW, Nagrebetsky A, Grecu L, Amar D, Tanaka P, Sprung J, Gupta RA, Subramanian B, Giquel J, Eikermann M, Musch G, Nadler JW, Gama de Abreu M, Bartels K, Grover M, Chen LL, Sparling J, Douin DJ, Weingarten T, Wagener G, Thompson BT, Vidal Melo MF. Perioperative lung expansion and pulmonary outcomes after open abdominal surgery versus usual care in the USA (PRIME-AIR): a multicentre, randomised, controlled, phase 3 trial. Lancet Respir Med. 2025 May; 13(5):447-459.
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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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