There are many reasons for immobilization using splints, casts, and braces. Each person should understand his or her diagnosis clearly.
This test requires a blood sample.
No special preparations are necessary for this test.
No special preparation is needed to use a hyperbaric chamber other than educating patients about what to expect during treatment.
Before beginning a monthly BSE, a woman's breasts should be completely exposed.
Patients should not drink alcoholic or caffeinated beverages, smoke tobacco, or ingest other nicotine products for 24 hours before the test. These substances can affect test results. Patients should also not eat anything.
Patients should make sure their doctors are aware of any medications that they are taking, even over-the-counter medications. Patients should not take aspirin, or any other blood-thinning medications for ten days prior to surgery.
The standard preoperative blood tests are performed. The patient should not eat or drink the day of the procedure.
Patients should not eat or drink for several hours before the exam. Many medications affect the esophagus; doses sometimes need to be adjusted or even stopped for a while. Patients must inform doctors of all medications taken.
The nurse or doctor may inject the site with a local anesthetic before flushing the wound.
Patients scheduled for a laser iridotomy or iridectomy are not required to fast or make other special preparations before the procedure. They may, however, be given a sedative to help them relax.
Two to three hours before the scan, technetium is injected into a vein in the patient's forearm.
Before the operation, the patient will have blood and urine collected for testing. X rays are taken of the affected area. In a hiatal hernia, an endoscopy (a visual inspection of the organs) is done. Patients should meet with the anesthesiologist.