Surgery
When you choose Emanate Health for surgery, you're choosing the region's best surgeons and nurses to take care of you. Our team of board-certified surgeons specializes in a wide variety of procedures. So, whether you need a hernia repair or a face-lift, we have the right experts and facilities available to serve you.
Patient safety
Anesthesia: True or false?
Anesthesia, or anesthetics, blocks all feeling and can help you get through medical procedures without pain—and, often, without awareness.
While "going under" may be common, how much do you know about anesthesia?
True or false: Ether was the first anesthetic successfully used to put people under for surgery.
True. In 1846, a dentist demonstrated how ether fumes could be used to knock people out during surgery.
True or false: General anesthetics allow you to become unconscious and can only be delivered by gas.
False. General anesthesia does knock you out so that you have no awareness or sensations during surgery. But these drugs can be injected into your bloodstream or inhaled as a gas.
True or false: Getting anesthesia always means becoming unconscious.
False. Some anesthetics can be given with or without sedation, so you can stay awake. A local anesthetic numbs only a small part of your body, such as a tooth or a finger. A regional anesthetic helps numb larger areas and is delivered through a cluster of nerves.
True or false. General anesthetics that are inhaled wear off faster than those that are injected into veins.
False. Inhaled anesthetics take longer to wear off than those given through the veins. Intravenous anesthetics disappear from the bloodstream quickly, allowing patients to go home sooner after surgery.
True or false: Anesthesiologists are medical doctors.
True. Anesthesiologists have a medical degree. They also have to complete a four-year residency in anesthesiology.
Are you scheduled for a medical procedure or surgery? Ask your doctor what kind of anesthesia you can expect to have.
Sources
- American Society of Anesthesiologists. "Anesthesia as a Career." https://www.asahq.org/education-and-career/career-resources/anesthesia-as-a-career.
- American Society of Anesthesiologists. "Patients Often Overestimate Postoperative Pain, Study Finds." https://www.asahq.org/about-asa/newsroom/news-releases/2017/10/patients-often-overestimate-postoperative-pain.
- National Center for Biotechnology Information. "Historical Development of Modern Anesthesia." https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22583009/.
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences. "Anesthesia." https://www.nigms.nih.gov/education/fact-sheets/Pages/anesthesia.aspx.
- National Institutes of Health. "Waking Up to Anesthesia: Learn More Before You Go Under." https://newsinhealth.nih.gov/2011/04/waking-up-anesthesia.
Our hospitals offer treatment in everything from heart care to maternity and pediatrics, orthopedics to neuroscience and stroke care, and women's health to emergency care. Cosmetic surgeries are the only procedures that are not being offered.
Patients interested in rescheduling a delayed surgery need to speak with their primary care doctor to make sure that this is the right time to schedule a procedure before their condition becomes more severe.
Learn more about our new safety protocols.
Our robotic surgeons are at the forefront of technology. Using the da Vinci Surgical System, our team can perform a number of minimally invasive gynecological and urologic surgeries, including:
- Cystectomy (bladder cancer surgery)
- Endometriosis resection
- Hysterectomy
- Myomectomy (uterine fibroids surgery)
- Partial nephrectomy (to treat kidney disease or cancer)
- Prostatectomy (prostate cancer surgery)
- Pyeloplasty (urinary obstruction surgery)
- Sacrocolpopexy (pelvic organ prolapse surgery)
Due to our staff's commitment to safe, quality care, Emanate Health Queen of the Valley Hospital was designated a Center of Excellence in Minimally Invasive Gynecology by the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists and the Surgical Review Corporation. This designation means you can expect:
- A shorter hospital stay (many patients are able to leave the same day)
- A faster recovery time
- Less pain and blood loss from surgery
Many general surgeries and even some orthopedic procedures can be done on an outpatient basis.
General outpatient surgeries we perform include:
- Breast biopsy
- Excisional biopsy of nodes
- Excision of skin lesions and small masses
- Hernia repair
- Incision and drainage
- Lipoma excision
- Muscle biopsy
- Pilonidal cystectomy
Our orthopedic surgeons can perform the following procedures on an outpatient basis:
- Arthroscopy
- Carpal tunnel release
- Ganglion cyst removal
- Laceration repair
- Orthopedic hardware removal
- Shoulder repair
- Tendon repair
- Trigger finger release
- Ulnar nerve transfer
We are pleased to offer you a range of life-enhancing plastic surgery operations. All operations are outpatient and performed in our fully accredited outpatient surgery center by our team of experienced plastic surgeons and nurses.
Here are some examples of the plastic surgery procedures we perform:
- Breast augmentation, reduction and lift
- Eyebrow and eyelid surgery
- Face-lift
- Full-body liposuction
- Rhinoplasty and septoplasty
- Tummy tuck
Our experienced team of surgeons performs urologic outpatient operations at the fully accredited Emanate Health Glendora Surgery Center. Urologic surgeries we perform include:
- Bladder suspension
- Circumcision
- Cystoscopy
- Direct vision urethrotomy
- Hydrocelectomy
- Internal spermatic vein ligation
- Testicular biopsy
- Vasectomy