perioperative -- Sister Jen

perioperative 
peri·op·er·a·tive/ (-op´er-ah-tiv) 

pertaining to the period extending from the time of hospitalization for surgery to the time of discharge.

Thanks for the definition to Dorland's Medical Dictionary for Health Consumers. © 2007 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

Sister Jen insisted on shortening the preoperative time around her brain surgery.