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Pre Operative Period of Bariatric Surgery

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Patient getting admitted for the procedure will have to be prepared for

Admission one or two days prior to the surgery.

Routine blood and urine tests will be undertaken on the patients.

This is the time for the patient to clear all the leftover doubts with the surgeon about the surgery and its results.

Breathing exercises should be practised to help in the postoperative period.

Smoking should be given up.

One should be prepared to stay on for a few days after surgery if there are any complications.

In the morning of their surgery they are taken to the pre-operative room, where they change into a hospital gown and receive intra-venous (IV) fluids.

Families can stay with the patient until they are taken to the operating theatre, at which time the family will be taken to the waiting room.


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Member Comments ( 2 )
please I hope you read this I know this post was 3 years old but it a shot my wife just had the surgery and now has double vision and blurred vision the doctors say its the anesthesia but I do not think so can you tell me if it ever got better
(Posted by kosterholt, United States Date : 4/2/2010 )
In addition to my other letter. I also am having trouble with a foot that is going numb. Neruopathy from lack of vitamin b-12 and I am having trouble with my eye sight. I have double vision. they are testing me for mysethina gravis and MS. I am suffering daily all I believe due to the gastric bypass surgery.. I maybe wrong but I was without any of these problems before the surgery.. My dr. once said for being 333lbs. you'd never know it looking at all of my health issues or lack of and lab work. my health status was great I only was fat...I'd do anything to not have done this surgery and have my healthy fat life back...I can't believe I did this surgery so I could do more funny, I suffer daily in pain, losing my teeth, losing feeling in my foot and most of all I have to close my left eye to see or I'll see double vision. that takes away your independence.. OH what I wouldn't do to be a healthy fat functioning independently daily....
(Posted by andrea, United States Date : 10/20/2007 )
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