Carolinas HealthCare System offers the total spectrum of surgical services,
including outpatient, minimally invasive and stereotactic radiosurgery, at
many convenient hospitals and facilities throughout North Carolina. Surgical
areas include general, pediatric, cardiovascular, trauma, neurological,
orthopaedic, transplant, trauma, urologic, gynecologic and plastic surgery.
Patients at Carolinas Medical Center now have access to the latest advancement
in minimally invasive surgery - a new tool that significantly reduces the size of incisions
to perform heart, prostate, ob/gyn and a number of abdominal surgeries - the
da Vinci Surgical Robot.
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CMC-Home Care provides healthcare services to patients in their homes 24 hours a day, seven days a week. For more information, click here.
Types of anesthesia include:
General anesthesia - You are asleep during surgery.
Conduction anesthesia - A nerve block numbs only the appropriate body part.
Local anesthesia - Anesthetic is injected into a specific area.
Local anesthesia with sedation - Anesthesia is injected into the surgery area only and a sedative is provided intravenously.