A short interview-style YouTube video where Robert Whitfield MD explains how to prepare the night before surgery. He emphasizes taking preventative medications the night before to control nerve pain, inflammation, and nausea so patients arrive calm and to avoid actions (vomiting, coughing, sneezing) that could raise blood pressure and complicate surgery.
Talk us through the whole thing, how long it takes, what it looks like, complications, all the things.
So I will step up and we'll talk about the night before. So the night before is really important. So you're given a series of medications, really, just to help you get prepared for the next day. So, you know, Michael has to get you to the surgery center, so the care provider has to get you there. But I don't want you all ramped up when you arrive. So you take medication that night before for nerve pain, inflammation, and nausea. Because we don't want. There are rules, right? No throwing up, no vomiting, no coughing, no sneezing. So we just don't want things that raise blood pressure. So we do all this preventative stuff. So the day you come there, you're pretty mellow.
