Day of Bariatric Surgery

WEBVTT 00:00:07.360 --> 00:00:10.380 Patients always ask what happens on surgery day. 00:00:10.405 --> 00:00:13.720 After arrival to the hospital, you'll check in at the registration desk. 00:00:13.745 --> 00:00:15.940 You get back to the pre-op area. 00:00:15.965 --> 00:00:20.900 Once there, get changed, get your vitals, the IV goes in. 00:00:20.925 --> 00:00:25.140 There's some valium before all of that, just to take the edge off. 00:00:25.165 --> 00:00:27.900 There's some preoperative medications that are administered. 00:00:27.925 --> 00:00:32.660 You'll be seen by both your surgeon and your anesthesiologist, and you and your 00:00:32.685 --> 00:00:36.900 family will get to meet the entire operative team taking care of you. 00:00:36.925 --> 00:00:41.660 From that point, the patient really doesn't remember very much of anything. 00:00:41.685 --> 00:00:45.900 They remember me talking to them in pre-op area, and then they wake up either in 00:00:45.925 --> 00:00:50.700 recovery or even up on the floor, doing great and relatively pain-free. 00:00:50.725 --> 00:00:55.860 After surgery, you move to recovery room, where you relax there and the nurses take 00:00:55.885 --> 00:00:59.500 great care of you one-on-one to make sure your nausea and your pain 00:00:59.525 --> 00:01:01.260 is controlled very well. 00:01:01.285 --> 00:01:04.900 Then move up to the floor where your family is able to visit. 00:01:04.925 --> 00:01:10.180 By that time you're fully awake, you're very comfortable walking the halls, 00:01:10.205 --> 00:01:12.380 starting your bariatric liquid diet. 00:01:12.405 --> 00:01:16.980 Once you leave the operating room, you'll be in recovery, where one-on-one nursing 00:01:17.005 --> 00:01:21.540 care monitors your vitals, make sure that your pain is controlled, and your nausea 00:01:21.565 --> 00:01:24.570 is controlled very well before you head to the floor. 00:01:24.600 --> 00:01:27.850 Once on the floor, your family members can visit. 00:01:27.880 --> 00:01:32.695 The nursing staff there will again recheck, make sure your pain's well, make 00:01:32.720 --> 00:01:36.100 sure your nausea is under control, and patients are welcome to have a family 00:01:36.125 --> 00:01:37.815 or friend spend the night with them. 00:01:37.840 --> 00:01:39.740 In the morning, your surgeon will visit you. 00:01:39.765 --> 00:01:41.540 We have a discharge discussion. 00:01:41.565 --> 00:01:46.740 The dietician will see you, make sure every diet question is answered, 00:01:46.765 --> 00:01:50.290 and post-op instructions are given by the bariatric coordinator. 00:01:50.320 --> 00:01:53.895 By about 10:00 or 11:00 the next morning, patients are doing great, 00:01:53.920 --> 00:01:54.840 ready to head on home.