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Make the RIGHT, INFORMED, & SAFE choice...
Surgery can be a stressful and sometimes critical event requiring intensive care, monitoring, and vigilance. Patient safety is our #1 priority. With the many options available to you, ask your anesthesia provider if he/she is a professional physician anesthesiologist with at least 12 years of education and training in anesthesiology (4 years of undergraduate college, 4 years of medical school, and 4 years of anesthesiology residency) and is board certified through the rigorous requirements of the American Board of Anesthesiology. Call us if you have any questions.
Make the RIGHT, INFORMED, & SAFE choice...
Surgery can be a stressful and sometimes critical event requiring intensive care, monitoring, and vigilance. Patient safety is our #1 priority. With the many options available to you, ask your anesthesia provider if he/she is a professional physician anesthesiologist with at least 12 years of education and training in anesthesiology (4 years of undergraduate college, 4 years of medical school, and 4 years of anesthesiology residency) and is board certified through the rigorous requirements of the American Board of Anesthesiology. Call us if you have any questions.
Make the RIGHT, INFORMED, & SAFE choice...
Surgery can be a stressful and sometimes critical event requiring intensive care, monitoring, and vigilance. Patient safety is our #1 priority. With the many options available to you, ask your anesthesia provider if he/she is a professional physician anesthesiologist with at least 12 years of education and training in anesthesiology (4 years of undergraduate college, 4 years of medical school, and 4 years of anesthesiology residency) and is board certified through the rigorous requirements of the American Board of Anesthesiology. Call us if you have any questions.
Make the RIGHT, INFORMED, & SAFE choice...
Surgery can be a stressful and sometimes critical event requiring intensive care, monitoring, and vigilance. Patient safety is our #1 priority. With the many options available to you, ask your anesthesia provider if he/she is a professional physician anesthesiologist with at least 12 years of education and training in anesthesiology (4 years of undergraduate college, 4 years of medical school, and 4 years of anesthesiology residency) and is board certified through the rigorous requirements of the American Board of Anesthesiology. Call us if you have any questions.
PREOPERATIVE instructions for anesthesia:
The day before your procedure-
Take your medications routinely scheduled. Your anesthesiologist performing your procedure should have reviewed which medications to take and to discontinue in advance.
The morning of your procedure-
Do not eat or drink anything after midnight the day of your procedure if you are scheduled in the morning. If you are scheduled in the afternoon, please follow the following fasting guidelines:
Ingested Material: Minimum Fasting Period:
1. Clear liquids....................2 hours
2. Breast milk.....................4 hours
3. Infant formula.............6 hours
Nonhuman milk
Light meal
4. Heavy meal.....................8 hours
*Clear liquid = water, black coffee, clear tea, carbonated beverages, fruit juice without pulp
*Light meal = coffee with milk, orange juice, other fruit juice with pulp, cereal, toast, crackers
*Heavy meal = fatty or fried food, cheeses, meat, etc.
*The only exception are medications that are routinely taken in the morning and have been discussed with your anesthesiologist performing your procedure. Medications can be taken with a small sip of water.
Please let your anesthesiologist or other health care providers know of any changes to your health since last speaking with you including fever, nausea, vomiting.
Please remove dentures, bridges, retainers, contact lenses, glasses, hearing aids, and other prosthetic devices prior to your appointment, or bring a container to keep these items safe and be prepared to remove these items when you arrive at our center.
Please do not wear makeup or jewelry.
Please have a chaperone readily available to pick you up and drive you home at the end of your procedure. You will not be able to drive for the rest of the day.
The period after your procedure-
You will be brought to the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) following your procedure and will remain there until your anesthesiologist feels you have sufficiently recovered from the anesthesia. Please be prepared to stay here for several hours. Rarely, patients will be admitted to the hospital for further observation and will not be able to return home that day.
POSTOPERATIVE instructions for anesthesia:
Patients may have pain, nausea or vomiting, or other unpleasant symptoms following anesthesia. These are normal changes, and your anesthesiologist will do his or her best to keep you as comfortable as possible. Please let us know how you are feeling so that we may best care for you. Should you require medications to control any of these symptoms once you return home, your anesthesiologist or doctor performing the procedure will provide you with a prescription for medications. If your recovery is slower than expected, you may be admitted to the hospital for close observation.
When you are ready to resume eating, try starting with clear fluids such as water, tea, coffee, or juices that do not contain pulp. If you tolerate this diet, advance to soft foods such as gelatin, ice cream, or yogurt.
Avoid performing any strenuous activities for at least the first day or on the advice of your doctors.
You may feel lightheaded after anesthesia so be careful while you walk or stand to avoid falling.
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