Rapid Recovery After Breast Augmentation

Historically, recovery after breast augmentation has been difficult. When you put the implant behind the muscle, we wrap them and tell them just to take it easy and not really do much. So with the rapid recovery after breast augmentation, we're trying to do a few things. One, avoid the anesthetic complications of nausea and vomiting. So I pre treat those patients with a product called AMEND to help avoid that as many women have problems with nausea and vomiting after general anesthesia. Two, we're not going to use excessively large implants when we're trying to perform rapid recovery after breast augmentation because we really want them to use their arms and resume normal activity within the day or two after surgery. And then thirdly, we're going to try to avoid the use of narcotics after surgery. We're going to use NSAIDs, something like Aleve or Ibuprofen. And then we're also going to, at the time of surgery, inject the muscle with a long acting medicine called Exparel. We found this will last for about 72 hours. By that time, people don't need narcotic anymore. They're using their arms freely, they can drive. So the limitations that we used to place on patients, we feel all those are avoided now. So this is a much more rapid recovery than traditional.