As a general rule, you should not eat or drink anything after midnight before your surgery. Under some circumstances, you may be given permission by your anesthesiologist to drink clear liquids up to a few hours before your anesthesia.
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Yes, you will need to remove your fentenyl patch before any type of general anesthesia.
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You should wait at least 6 weeks. :)
Thyroid removal is not necessary for a biopsy.
Mediastinoscopy is usually performed in a hospital under general anesthesia. Before the general anesthesia is administered, local anesthesia is applied to the throat while an endotracheal tube is inserted.
Your doctor will inject this drug. It is used to relax a patient before anesthesia, so it's not really something you should have at home.
As with any operation that is performed under general anesthesia, the patient must not eat or drink anything for six to eight hours before surgery.
The necessary steps of preparation vary depending on the extent of the surgery. For example, if the procedure is short and requires only local anesthesia, no steps are truly necessary. However, if general endotracheal anesthesia is to be used, one should be sure to fast before the surgery.
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before , after removal of the soiled dressing , and after the procedure
You should wait atleast 4 days after treatment before you shave.
It makes sense to start just before the removal.