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Day of Surgery
Pre-Surgery Contact
Prior to the day of surgery you will be contacted by our team to provide you with the planned timing of your surgery and timing to present to the hospital and specific fasting times.
On the Day
On the day of surgery wear loose fitting clothing, fasting times mean that you cannot eat food or even chew gum.
- You may be allowed to have black coffee with no milk with morning medications and may be allowed to sip water until arrival to hospital.
- Plan to arrive early to reduce your stress of finding parking and getting to where you need to be.
- You can bring a support person who can often stay with you until the final stages prior to going into the theatre complex.
- Bring a book or music to listen to as there may be lots of waiting in different stages of the process.
Preparation and Examination
You will be asked to change into a surgical gown, for most surgeries you can wear your own underwear, Hip surgery requires the underwear to be removed.
- The nursing staff will shave and paint your surgical site with an antiseptic. This will be repeated 2 more times once you are inside the operating theatre.
- As your surgical time gets closer your surgeon will greet you and confirm your planned surgery and mark the area with a surgical marker. This is your opportunity to ask any final burning questions.
- The anaesthetist will also meet you in this area to discuss the planned anaesthetic and post operative pain management.
Consulting Hospitals
Suite 5, Level 2, 204 Greenhill Road 08 8472 9272
Open 9am – 5pm
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89 Strangways Terrace, North Adelaide SA 5006 08 8239 9100
Open 24 hours
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4/37 Jarvis Rd, Elizabeth Vale SA 5112 08 8250 4111
Open 24 hours
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28 Woodville Rd, Woodville South SA 5011 08 8222 6000
Open 24 hours
Port Rd, Adelaide SA 5000 08 7074 0000
Open 24 hours
Haydown Rd, Elizabeth Vale SA 5112 08 8182 9000
Open 24 hours
Smart Rd, Modbury SA 5092 08 8161 2000
Open 24 hours
For us an operation is an incident in the day's work, but for our patients it may be, and no doubt it often is, the sternest and most dreaded of all trials, for the mysteries of life and death surround it, and it must be faced alone.
- Berkeley Moynihan