elective surgery

基本解释

Elective surgery is surgery on patients who don't even have any neuropathy or any history of any open wounds.
选择性外科手术是指对甚至没有神经病变及任何开放性创伤史的患者进行的手术。
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"However, our results showed that serious complications were rare and that the timing of elective surgery did not influence the outcome, " Bashour said.
不过，我们的研究结果表明，严重并发症很少发生，择期手术的时机并不影响结果。
An editorial in the The New England Journal of Medicine recommends that patients provide informed, written consent to undergo elective surgery by physicians who haven't had enough sleep.
《新英格兰医学杂志》的编辑部评论文章建议病人在知，并做出书面同意后，才能选择那些睡眠不足的医生给自己做手术。

This epidemic of uncertain care is an unintended outgrowth of a decades-long boom in elective surgery.
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In 2001, patients requiring elective surgery could wait as long as 18 months for an operation.
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They also want to establish dedicated elective surgery centres, which, they suggest, private companies could run.
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