THE OPERATING SUITE
• Going to the operating room is not a normal experience
for most of us. Dr. Naman and all of the professional
staff caring for you recognize the natural anxiety with
which most patients approach this step in the process
of achieving their goals. We believe a description of
the surgery experience will be helpful.
• Your surgery will be performed here at our state-of-the-art
operating suite. Specialists using modem equipment and
techniques will attend to you. The team includes a trained
operating room technician and a registered nurse in charge
of the operating room.
• When you arrive at our office, you will be escorted
to the surgery suite. You will be asked to change into
a gown. Dr. Naman will meet with you before you enter
the operating suite. This is the time for final surgical
planning; it is also when we will do basic preparation
or draw on your skin as needed. There will be time for
last minute questions.
• Once you enter the operating room, the staff will do
everything they can to make you feel secure. You will
feel comfortable on our deeply padded operating table,
and the nurse or Dr. Naman will start an intravenous drip
in your arm. At the same time, to ensure your safety,
our staff will connect you to monitoring devices. Medicines
that will make you drowsy will flow through the tubing
into a vein in your arm.
THE RECOVERY ROOM
• When your surgery has been completed and your dressings
are in place, you will be moved to the recovery room.
You will be connected to monitoring equipment constantly.
During this period, a fully trained recovery room nurse
will take care of you and remain with you at all times.
The registered nurses in the recovery room are specially
certified for advanced cardiac life support. The recovery
room is equipped just like one in a hospital, and that
is one of the reasons our surgery suite is fully accredited.
• Your stay in the recovery room will last from 30 minutes
to 1 hour, depending on how soon you are ready to leave.
Most patients are fully awake within 30-60 minutes after
surgery but may not remember much about their stay in
the recovery room.
POST SURGERY ARRANGEMENTS
AT HOME: You must arrange
for someone to bring you the day of surgery and drive
you home from the surgery center. Either a family member
or a friend must remain with you the first night after
surgery because you will have been sedated.
