A short YouTube video transcript excerpt featuring Robert Whitfield MD and a patient (Speaker B) discussing the patient’s fear and nervousness before surgery and the clinical team’s role in reducing pre-surgery anxiety.
Then we had the surgery and I was so scared. I remember the day before I was crying and I was scared and I was nervous. It was really hard.
Well, I think, you know what you describe both. You know, some people get that way just travel in general, which is how I feel when I travel. Getting here though, you know, our team is in place to hopefully reduce as much of that as possible.
Obviously very nice.
We have a very experienced group who take great care with all of our patients. And you know, pre op we're really trying to reduce the sympathetic response to get people into a parasympathetic state. So you know, I give, you know, everybody the guidance and, and a gift card to go to the well and have some gluten free, dairy free, pseudo free food to get them in the right frame of mind, so to speak, and then get them off to sleep well with some nausea medicine and anti inflammatory and something just to calm the nervous system. And the next day you'll do a little bit more of that. And then in the operating room we're even doing more nerve blocks than.
