Dr. Robert Whitfield explains what to do the night before surgery. He prescribes medications to prevent nerve pain, inflammation, and nausea so patients arrive calm and avoid vomiting, coughing, or sneezing that could raise blood pressure during the procedure.
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.
