Robert Whitfield MD walks through what to do the night before surgery. Take preventive medications for nerve pain, inflammation, and nausea so you arrive calm and avoid vomiting, coughing, or anything that spikes blood pressure before 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 might be more 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.
