You must decide if you can safely drive and control your vehicle. Please check with your insurance agent about driving with a sling. We recommend that you not drive until the sling is off and you can drive safely. Specific restrictions for each surgical procedure differ, please contact our office with any questions you may have. Jourdan M. Cancienne Dr. Timothy P. Finney Dr. Gregor J. Hoffman Dr. Michael J. McNulty Dr.
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Contact Our Team. Surgery Handouts for Patients of Dr. Day before Surgery DO NOT eat or drink anything after midnight the night before your surgery is scheduled unless you have been specifically instructed otherwise by the nursing staff in the facility where you are scheduled.
Arrange for someone to be with you for the first 24 hours after your surgery. Check your cell phone and home phone in case your surgery time was changed. Find loose clothing that can easily be worn on the day of surgery.
Please bring the sling, immobilizer, crutches, or other medical equipment that was given to you regarding your injury, with you the day of surgery to the surgery center The exact time of the surgery is determined by the surgery facility. Day of Surgery You will be instructed to arrive at the surgical facility an hour or more prior to your scheduled procedure. Pre-Operative Area Shortly after your arrival, you will be brought back into the pre-op area.
Operating Room The anesthesiologist and your operating room OR nurse will accompany you through the automatic doors into our operating room suite. You will be provided with instructions including how to take any necessary medications.
Check to ensure your first post-op appointment is scheduled according to the instructions. Pain Management Your anesthesiologist will review your medical history, discuss the anesthesia plan, and answer your questions. The device may be used during the Pain Medication Opiates aka narcotics are controlled substances.
Types of opiates in order of strength Oxycodone with acetaminophen aka Percocet Hydrocodone with acetaminophen aka Norco, Vicodin Tramadol aka Ultram Codeine aka Tylenol with codeine Acetaminophen aka Tylenol is not an anti-inflammatory drug but it is a pain reliever.
Travel Plan to stay in the area until your first post-op visit. Driving You should not drive if you are taking pain medication. All things being equal, unless there are other bleeding tendencies, my policy is to not have my patients stop NSAIDS of any variety before pain management interventions including spinal blocks. Thank you for your comments…it is this sort of feedback that is most helpful to providers, especially coming from an interventionalist. One of my esteemed pharmacy pain colleagues closer to your neck of the woods, but a bit north is attending a conference with me this week; she has legitimate feedback that I look forward to seeing here soon.
Stay tuned. Again, thank you for the comments. Your email address will not be published. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Skip to content. Share with others. Everyone have a safe and blessed Christmas. Mark S Barletta. Great article. All of the study medications provided good pain control, the assembled data suggested.
Only seven percent of patients assigned to ibuprofen and 11 percent assigned to comparison drugs reported dissatisfaction with their pain treatment. The difference was not significant. Ibuprofen and other treatments were also similar in terms of bleeding risk.
Rates of "surgically significant postoperative bleeding" were 3. A further analysis focused on the comparison between ibuprofen and acetaminophen plus codeine—a common postoperative pain medication that was used as a comparison treatment in three of the four studies. Again, there was no significant difference in pain control or bleeding risk. Kelley and coauthors write. Even though ibuprofen is an inexpensive drug that is widely available over-the-counter OTC , few studies have evaluated its use in plastic surgery patients.
The researchers emphasize that their study was limited to procedures where bleeding and hematomas collections of blood are easily detectable. They also acknowledge some other key limitations, particularly the small numbers of studies and patients included.
However, they believe that for plastic and dermatologic skin surgery procedures involving small areas, ibuprofen can provide good pain control without increasing bleeding risk.
The findings are consistent with the fact that, in contrast to some other NSAIDs, ibuprofen has only short, temporary effect on the function of platelets—blood cells that play a key role in clotting. Considering ibuprofen and other alternative medications is especially important given the rising concern about misuse or prescription opioid pain relievers, in addition to their high costs.
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