PREOPERATIVE INSTRUCTIONS:
- Arrive 90 minutes prior to your surgery time.
- Night prior to your surgery, adult shouldn’t eat or drink after midnight. But toddlers and Infant may take liquids 6 hours before the Surgery time.
- If you have not been contacted by the hospital before the night prior to surgery, please call 303-487-0834 to pre-admit.
POSTOPERATIVE INSTRUCTIONS:
- You may eat or drink anything you like at any temperature that is comfortable. Trial and error and common sense should be your guides. Most important is staying well hydrated, especially for infants and kids. You must force yourself to drink.
- You will be given a prescription for narcotic pain medicine. Start with a small dose to test your body’s reaction, and then increase up to the prescribed doses if tolerated.
- Your doctor may prescribe other medicines to help in the postoperative period.
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