A short YouTube video by Robert Whitfield MD offering quick explant recovery tips: how he prepares patients biologically, strict operating-room anesthesia protocols that reduce narcotic needs, rapid same-day discharge (patients able to walk and leave within 30–60 minutes), and use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in the first week post-op to improve clarity and recovery after anesthesia.
There's always a strategy to this, to prep people with the biology of what's about to happen. And then we go through surgery, and we have really strict protocols in the operating room to anesthetize everywhere we're operating. So it's pretty rare that a patient of mine wakes up in kind of a need state for narcotic. It's. It's uncommon, actually. And then my patients leave and go home in 30 minutes to an hour, and they're on their own. They can walk. It's not that I didn't operate on their legs. I mean, they're not having leg surgery. We may take fat if we're doing a fat transfer, but that's. And then that week after, they're coming here and getting hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Because we know that, you know, despite studies, and I was certified. Certified in hyperbaric medicine a long time ago. We know it helps, you know, from a clarity standpoint, clear, you know, your mind after anesthesia, anytime you can get more oxygen in the system helps.
