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Inpatient Surgery
Data are for the U.S.
- Total number of procedures performed: 51.4 million
- Number of selected procedures performed:
- Arteriography and angiocardiography using contrast material: 2.4 million
- Cardiac catheterizations: 1.0 million
- Endoscopy of small intestine with or without biopsy: 1.1 million
- Endoscopy of large intestine with or without biopsy: 499,000
- Diagnostic ultrasound: 1.1 million
- Balloon angioplasty of coronary artery or coronary atherectomy: 500,000
- Hysterectomy: 498,000
- Cesarean section:1.3 million
- Reduction of fracture: 671,000
- Insertion of coronary artery stent: 454,000
- Coronary artery bypass graft: 395,000
- Total knee replacement: 719,000
- Total hip replacement: 332,000
More data
- Cost of hospital discharges with common hospital operating room procedures in nonfederal community hospitals, by age and selected principal procedure Health, United States, 2015, table 96 [PDF – 9.8 MB]
- Rate of all-listed procedures for discharges from short-stay hospitals by procedure category and age National Hospital Discharge Survey: 2010 table, Procedures by selected patient characteristics – Rate by procedure category and age [PDF – 168 KB]