This YouTube short features a patient (Sherry) and clinicians Robert Whitfield MD and Siobhan discussing rapid, low-pain recovery after breast surgery. Sherry—who had implants for 31 years—underwent an explant and lift the morning of the video and reports minimal pain and no need for pain medication by that evening (on a call at 7pm Central). The clinicians describe a perioperative program emphasizing preemptive measures: night-before and day-of medications to reduce inflammation, nerve pain, and nausea; ultrasound-guided nerve blocks placed by an anesthesia team before surgery; addition of local anesthetics during the case; and performing cases in an outpatient/non-hospital setting (Dr. Whitfield has avoided operating in hospitals since 2019).
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31 years.
The same day, at 7pm Central.
Since 2019.
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You had implants 31 years ago. Dr. Whitfield did an explant and lift on me this morning. What, and you're already feeling better? I haven't even even needed some pain meds. That's amazing, Sherry.
So let's talk about this. Since you brought this up. We don't talk about this routinely. So a lot of patients come to.
Us with a lot of Siobhan, I.
Would call it really negative experiences from either surgery centers or offices or hospitals.
So I haven't operated in a hospital.
Purposefully since 2019, just before the pandemic. And what we do is we have a group of anesthesia providers and they do things for us that are really unique to our patient population because we're doing breast surgery.
We want to preempt instead of react to a problem. So everything we're doing is to promote the best state of wellness before a procedure. If you go to have a procedure.
In this case, we're talking about an.
Explant or fat transfer of the breast, whatever we're doing.
And my providers, I'll do an ultrasound guided nerve block. So they're promoting anesthesia in the area.
Before we ever get back to the operating room.
And then we'll place more of that.
Before we ever start operating.
So we have this program in place that prepares you. We have a series of things that are meant to help with inflammation, nerve pain, nausea that you take the night before and the day of.
I would mark the patients like I.
Did this morning for Sherry. We would view her ultrasound guided nerve block by our anesthesia team and.
And then we add more local anesthetics.
So the reason she can be on a call tonight at 7pm Central, having had surgery today.
Yeah, surgery today, today, this morning.
And not have a problem or not.
Need narcotics, which a lot of our patients don't, is because of all the work our team does up front.
