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Abdominal Wall Hernia Repair (Incisional Hernia)

Abdominal Wall Hernia Repair (Incisional Hernia) Recovery Protocol Overview This protocol is a delta from the Open Inguinal Hernia Repair (…

Adrenal Gland Removal Surgery

Adrenal Gland Removal Surgery (Adrenalectomy) Recovery Protocol Overview This is a unique Archetype E (Endocrine) protocol — no other proce…

Advanced Wound Dressing Care

Advanced Wound Dressing Care (Complex Wound Care and Dressing Management) Recovery Protocol Overview Complex wound care encompasses the man…

Anal Canal Reconstruction Surgery

Anal Canal Reconstruction Surgery Recovery Protocol Overview This is an Archetype D (complex anorectal) protocol .

Anal Fissure Surgery

Anal Fissure Surgery Recovery Protocol Overview This protocol is a delta from the Anal Fistula Repair (Archetype B) lead protocol .

Anal Fistula Surgery

Anal Fistula Surgery Recovery Protocol Overview Anal fistula repair serves as the Archetype B lead protocol for the anorectal specialty, es…

Anal Sphincter Repair Surgery

Anal Sphincter Repair Surgery Recovery Protocol Overview This is an Archetype D (complex anorectal) protocol .

Anti-Reflux Surgery (Stomach Wrap)

Anti Reflux Surgery (Stomach Wrap) Recovery Protocol Overview A Nissen fundoplication treats severe acid reflux (GERD) that has not respond…

Appendix Removal Surgery

Appendix Removal Surgery Recovery Protocol Overview An appendectomy removes the appendix, a small pouch attached to the large intestine in…

Appendix Removal Surgery (Keyhole)

Appendix Removal Surgery Keyhole (Laparoscopic Appendectomy) Recovery Protocol Overview This is a delta protocol referencing the Archetype…

Belly Button / Abdominal Wall Hernia Repair

Belly Button / Abdominal Wall Hernia Repair Recovery Protocol Overview An umbilical or ventral hernia is a bulge through a weak spot or gap…

Belly Button Hernia Repair

Belly Button Hernia Repair Recovery Protocol Overview This protocol is a delta from the Open Inguinal Hernia Repair (Archetype D) lead prot…

Blake Drain Care

Blake Drain Care Recovery Protocol Overview This is a delta protocol referencing the Archetype B lead: Jackson Pratt Drain Care ( ).

Chest Tube Care After Surgery

Chest Tube Care After Surgery Recovery Protocol Overview A chest tube is a flexible plastic tube inserted through the chest wall into the p…

Colostomy Care and Recovery

Colostomy Care and Recovery Protocol Overview A colostomy is a surgically created opening (stoma) in the abdominal wall through which a por…

Colostomy Surgery

Colostomy Surgery Recovery Protocol Overview Stoma creation serves as the lead protocol for all ostomy procedures within the anorectal spec…

Complete Stomach Removal Surgery

Complete Stomach Removal Surgery Recovery Protocol Overview This protocol is a delta from the Open Colectomy (Archetype A) lead protocol an…

External Fixator Pin Care

External Fixator Pin Care Recovery Protocol Overview An external fixator is a stabilization device used for fractures, limb reconstruction,…

Feeding Tube (G-Tube) Care

Feeding Tube (G Tube) Care Recovery Protocol Overview A gastrostomy tube, most commonly placed via percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG…

Gallbladder Removal Surgery

Gallbladder Removal Surgery Recovery Protocol Overview A cholecystectomy removes the gallbladder, the small pouch under the liver that stor…

Gallbladder Removal Surgery (Keyhole)

Gallbladder Removal Surgery — Keyhole (Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy) Recovery Protocol Overview Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is the surgica…

Gastric Sleeve Surgery

Gastric Sleeve Surgery Recovery Protocol Overview Sleeve gastrectomy permanently removes roughly three quarters of the stomach, leaving beh…

Groin Hernia Repair Surgery

Groin Hernia Repair Surgery Recovery Protocol Overview An inguinal hernia is a bulge in the groin where abdominal contents push through a w…

Hemorrhoid Banding

Hemorrhoid Banding Recovery Protocol Overview This protocol is a delta from the Hemorrhoidectomy (Archetype A) lead protocol .

Hemorrhoid Removal Surgery

Hemorrhoid Removal Surgery Recovery Protocol Overview Hemorrhoidectomy is the definitive surgical treatment for symptomatic hemorrhoidal di…

Hiatal Hernia Repair Surgery

Hiatal Hernia Repair Surgery Recovery Protocol Overview A hiatal hernia occurs when part of the stomach pushes up through the diaphragm int…

Ileostomy Surgery

Ileostomy Surgery Recovery Protocol Overview This protocol is a delta from the Stoma Creation / Colostomy (lead) protocol .

Implant Breast Reconstruction

Implant Breast Reconstruction Recovery Protocol Overview Implant based breast reconstruction rebuilds the shape of the breast using either a

Implanted Port (Port-a-Cath) Care

Implanted Port (Port a Cath) Care Recovery Protocol Overview An implanted port, commonly known by the brand name Port a Cath, is a complete…

JP Drain Care

JP Drain Care (Jackson Pratt Drain Care) Recovery Protocol Overview The Jackson Pratt drain, universally referred to as the JP drain, is th…

Keyhole Anti-Reflux Surgery (Hiatal Hernia Repair)

Keyhole Anti Reflux Surgery (Hiatal Hernia Repair) Recovery Protocol Overview This protocol is a delta from the Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

Keyhole Groin Hernia Repair

Keyhole Groin Hernia Repair Recovery Protocol Overview This protocol is a delta from the Open Inguinal Hernia Repair (Archetype D) lead pro…

Keyhole Left Colon Removal Surgery

Keyhole Left Colon Removal Surgery Recovery Protocol Overview This protocol is a delta from the Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy (Archetype B)…

Liver Removal (Resection) Surgery

Liver Removal (Resection) Surgery Recovery Protocol Overview A liver resection (hepatectomy) removes part of the liver, most often to treat…

Liver Removal Surgery (Partial Liver Resection)

Liver Removal Surgery (Partial Liver Resection) Recovery Protocol Overview This is a delta protocol referencing the Whipple procedure lead…

Lumpectomy (Breast-Conserving Surgery)

Lumpectomy (Breast Conserving Surgery) Recovery Protocol Overview A lumpectomy removes a breast cancer or suspicious mass along with a marg…

Mastectomy (Breast Removal)

Mastectomy (Breast Removal) Recovery Protocol Overview A mastectomy removes all of the breast tissue to treat or prevent breast cancer.

Nasogastric Tube (NG Tube) Care

Nasogastric Tube (NG Tube) Care Protocol Overview A nasogastric tube is a thin, flexible tube passed through one nostril, down the back of…

Open Appendix Removal Surgery

Open Appendix Removal Surgery (Open Appendectomy) Recovery Protocol Overview This is a delta protocol referencing the Archetype A lead: Open

Open Colon Removal Surgery

Open Colon Removal Surgery (Open Colectomy) Recovery Protocol Overview Open colectomy is the surgical removal of part or all of the colon t…

Open Gallbladder Removal Surgery

Open Gallbladder Removal Surgery (Open Cholecystectomy) Recovery Protocol Overview This is a delta protocol referencing the Archetype A lea…

Open Groin Hernia Repair

Open Groin Hernia Repair Recovery Protocol Overview Open inguinal hernia repair is the most commonly performed general surgery operation in…

Open Sigmoid Colon Removal Surgery

Open Sigmoid Colon Removal Surgery Recovery Protocol Overview This protocol is a delta from the Open Colectomy (Archetype A) lead protocol .

Partial Bowel (Colon) Removal Surgery

Partial Bowel (Colon) Removal Surgery Recovery Protocol Overview A partial colectomy removes a diseased section of the large intestine (col…

Partial Stomach Removal Surgery

Partial Stomach Removal Surgery Recovery Protocol Overview This protocol is a delta from the Open Colectomy (Archetype A) lead protocol .

Penrose Drain Care

Penrose Drain Care Recovery Protocol Overview This is a delta protocol referencing the Archetype B lead: Jackson Pratt Drain Care ( ).

Perianal Abscess Drainage

Perianal Abscess Drainage Recovery Protocol Overview This protocol is a delta from the Anal Fistula Repair (Archetype B) lead protocol .

PICC Line Care

PICC Line Care Recovery Protocol Overview A peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC line) is a long, thin, flexible tube inserted thro…

Pigtail Drain Catheter Care

Pigtail Drain Catheter Care Recovery Protocol Overview A pigtail catheter is a small bore (typically 8 to 14 French) flexible drainage tube…

Pilonidal Cyst Surgery

Pilonidal Cyst Surgery Recovery Protocol Overview Pilonidal cyst excision serves as the Archetype C lead protocol for the anorectal special…

Pilonidal Cyst Surgery

Pilonidal Cyst Surgery Recovery Protocol Overview Pilonidal disease is a chronic infection of a small tunnel (sinus) in the cleft between t…

Rectal Cancer Surgery (Low Anterior Resection)

Rectal Cancer Surgery (Low Anterior Resection) Recovery Protocol Overview This protocol is a delta from the Open Colectomy (Archetype A) le…

Rectal Prolapse Surgery

Rectal Prolapse Surgery Recovery Protocol Overview Rectal prolapse repair is an Archetype D (complex anorectal) procedure involving either…

Rectal Surgery with Permanent Colostomy (APR)

Rectal Surgery with Permanent Colostomy (APR) Recovery Protocol Overview This protocol is a delta from the Open Colectomy (Archetype A) lea…

Revision Bariatric Surgery After a Sleeve

Revision Bariatric Surgery After a Sleeve Recovery Protocol Overview A sleeve gastrectomy revision is a second weight loss operation perfor…

Revision Weight Loss Surgery

Revision Weight Loss Surgery Recovery Protocol Overview This protocol covers revisional bariatric surgery (Archetype C) , a distinct catego…

Right Colon Removal Surgery (Keyhole)

Right Colon Removal Surgery Keyhole (Laparoscopic Right Hemicolectomy) Recovery Protocol Overview This is a delta protocol referencing the…

Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass

Roux en Y Gastric Bypass Recovery Protocol Overview Roux en Y gastric bypass creates a small stomach pouch about the size of an egg and con…

Small Intestine Feeding Tube (J-Tube) Care

Small Intestine Feeding Tube (J Tube) Care Recovery Protocol Relationship to Lead Protocol This protocol is a delta from the Gastrostomy Tu…

Small Intestine Removal Surgery

Small Intestine Removal Surgery Recovery Protocol Overview This protocol is a delta from the Open Colectomy (Archetype A) lead protocol .

Spleen Removal Surgery

Spleen Removal Surgery (Splenectomy) Recovery Protocol Overview This is a delta protocol referencing the open colectomy lead protocol (Arch…

Staple and Stitch Removal

Staple and Stitch Removal (Skin Staple and Suture Removal) Recovery Protocol Overview Skin staple and suture removal is one of the most com…

Stoma Reversal Surgery

Stoma Reversal Surgery Recovery Protocol Overview This protocol is a delta from the Stoma Creation (lead) protocol .

Thyroid Removal Surgery

Thyroid Removal Surgery Recovery Protocol Overview A thyroidectomy removes part (lobectomy) or all (total thyroidectomy) of the butterfly s…

Urostomy Care and Recovery

Urostomy Care and Recovery Protocol Overview A urostomy, most commonly constructed as an ileal conduit, is a urinary diversion that routes…

Weight Loss Surgery (Duodenal Switch)

Weight Loss Surgery (Duodenal Switch) Recovery Protocol Overview This protocol is a delta from the Roux en Y Gastric Bypass (Archetype B) l…

Weight Loss Surgery (Gastric Band)

Weight Loss Surgery (Gastric Band) Recovery Protocol Overview This protocol is a delta from the Sleeve Gastrectomy (Archetype A) lead proto…

Weight Loss Surgery (Gastric Bypass)

Weight Loss Surgery (Gastric Bypass) Recovery Protocol Overview Roux en Y gastric bypass is the most established and extensively studied ba…

Weight Loss Surgery (Mini Gastric Bypass)

Weight Loss Surgery (Mini Gastric Bypass) Recovery Protocol Overview This protocol is a delta from the Roux en Y Gastric Bypass (Archetype…

Weight Loss Surgery (Stomach Sleeve)

Weight Loss Surgery (Stomach Sleeve) Recovery Protocol Overview Sleeve gastrectomy is the most commonly performed weight loss surgery in th…

Whipple Procedure (Pancreas and Duodenum Removal Surgery)

Whipple Procedure (Pancreaticoduodenectomy) Recovery Protocol Overview The Whipple procedure, formally called pancreaticoduodenectomy, is t…

Whipple Surgery (Pancreas and Duodenum Removal)

Whipple Surgery (Pancreas and Duodenum Removal) Recovery Protocol Overview The Whipple procedure (pancreaticoduodenectomy) is one of the mo…

Wound Separation After Surgery

Wound Separation After Surgery (Surgical Wound Dehiscence Management) Recovery Protocol Overview This is a delta protocol referencing the A…

Wound Vacuum Therapy

Wound Vacuum Therapy (Negative Pressure Wound Therapy) Recovery Protocol Overview Negative pressure wound therapy, widely known as wound VA…