What You Should Know Before Surgery Blog
Welcome to the Before Surgery Blog; this blog and website were created to offer those scheduled for or seeking surgery information that is not influenced by commercial interest or personal views. Medical professionals provide the information you’ll find here. Surgeries are not one size fits all, and your physician’s advice should override any guidelines you find here or anywhere else on the web. With that said, the general message is to bring awareness to the importance of before surgery guidelines, in particular to the dietary aspect. Any surgery whether common or not, small or major, where anesthesia will be administered, has the potential of being lethal. We can’t reiterate the importance of following these guidelines but especially those provided by your surgical team.
What You Need To Know Before Surgery!
Some Things You Should Know Before Surgery! If you have been researching this subject, you probably know by now that dietary improvement, as well as some mild exercise, is an important step to be taken when preparing for surgery. No smoking or drinking goes without saying. Even if you smoke and drink on a regular basis quitting these activities several weeks before surgery can not only lower your risk of complication but also substantially improve your recovery time. [...]
What You Should Eat Before Surgery?
Before Surgery Diet! Too frequently, many patients have a concrete way of thinking. They believe that EATING is completely different from DRINKING so they would DRINK and don’t EAT not knowing that either will have the same outcome, that is fluid or solid food can cause aspiration resulting in the same effect. The Mayo Clinic of Rochester, MN, did a study over a 9-yr period, from January of 2004 to December of 2012. During this time, they [...]
What You Should Do Before Surgery!
Preoperative Evaluation, Preparing for Anesthesia and Surgery! The pre-surgery or perioperative medical evaluation you have with your surgeon or Anesthesia provider is one of the most important consultation you will have before your surgery. The main reason for perioperative medical evaluation is to prevent the patient from suffering any intraoperative or postoperative, unintentional, unhealthy outcome or fatality, and to return the patient to his or her normal way of life as quickly as possible. It is important [...]