Minor Recovery Surgery
A surgical intervention that does not expose a body cavity or that does not ordinarily have the potential to result in impairment of a vital physical or physiological function.
Examples of minor survival surgeries include:
- Cranial burr holes that do not expose dura or brain
- Subcutaneous implants
- Peripheral vessel cannulation (peripheral approach)
- Castration (scrotal or prescrotal approach)
- Oral surgery and tooth extractions not involving bone
- -Oscopies into natural openings that involve biopsy
- Small digit or tail amputation
- Surgical repair of superficial injury