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Going Through Surgery

General Surgery Timeline

What To Expect During Your Procedure

Seeing the preadmission nurse is one way our patients are prepared for surgery. This nurse takes a medical and surgical history, does any preoperative testing ordered by the surgeon, provides the patient with information about the admission and discharge process, and begins the patient record. The patient has an opportunity to ask questions about the hospital process and the treatment to be provided.

Most patients come into the hospital through our Same Day Surgery Department. Patients are assessed by experienced nurses and are prepared for surgery. An anesthesiologist will visit with each patient. Together, the patient and the anesthesiologist will decide on an appropriate anesthetic.

Consent forms and other paperwork are completed in the preoperative area.

The patient will be asked to mark the surgical site if the procedure involves a right or left distinction. ‘X' Marks the Spot is our process for surgical marking. The operating room nurse will take the patient into the operating room where the patient will confirm the surgeon, procedure and surgical site. If the surgical site has been marked, the operating room nurse will ask to see the ‘X.’

A certified surgical technologist and/or registered nurse will have prepared the operating room for the procedure. Sterile processing technicians have prepared the instrumentation that will be used. The operating room team consists of one RN and a CST or two RNs, a certified nurse anesthetist and/or an anesthesiologist and the surgeon.

After surgery, patients usually go to the post-anesthesia care unit, also known as the recovery room. The experienced nurses in this unit will observe and care for the patients as they emerge from the anesthetic. From this unit, patients are either transferred back to the Day Surgery unit or to one of the inpatient units. Day Surgery patients usually are discharged one to two hours after they return to Day Surgery. They are given postoperative instructions, prescriptions, if ordered by the surgeon, and information about follow-up appointments with their surgeons.