Before Surgery Care

Day Before Surgery

1. Write written consent of surgery
   Listen to the explanation given by your doctor with a guardian and write the written consent.
2. No eating or drinking
   No eating or drinking from midnight
   (Even water is not allowed.)
3. Remove any accessories
   Remove all accessories (glasses, contact lenses, dentures), makeup, and manicure.
4. Shampoo
   Shampoo your hair with the provided sterilizing liquid.
   Do not use usual soap.
5. Obtain intravenous line
   Get intravenous line (intravenous injection route) in advance for fluid supply during surgery.

Day of Surgery

1. Examination of response to antibiotics and intravenous line
   In order to confirm safety of the antibiotic to be used a test for hypersensitivity or any allergic reaction is done on the arm. Fluid is connected to the body.
2. Wash face and brush teeth
   Do the same as you have done before surgery.
3. Urinate
   Empty your bladder by urinating before going to the operating room.
4. Put on surgery gown
   Remove all undergarments and put on the surgery gown and compression stockings (for prevention of thrombus).
5. Go to operating room
   When it is time, go to the operating room on the third floor on the transport bed with a patient transporter. The guardian will wait either in the waiting room or the patient’s room.
6. Keep catheter
   Insert urine catheter in the operating room and remove it the day after surgery.