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When you arrive for your pre-operative assessment appointment first you'll go to
the ground floor
and register, then you'll come to the 4th floor southeast
and you'll arrive at the pre-op clinic.
At 8:30 you're going to attend a pre-operative education session. The session
will have a nurse, physiotherapist
an occupational therapist, and someone from Community Care Access Centre talk
to you about what to expect while you're here in the hospital.
The first contact that a
patient undergoing hip or knee replacement has with Central CCAC
is from their pre-operative class which is held at the hospital here on the fourth
floor.
A hospital care co-ordinator will provide general information about
in home physiotherapy services and answer any questions that client or family may
have
regarding the services.
Here at the hospital, they have a pre-op class which you do before your surgery
and they have a series of experts come in
from nurses to orthopedic therapists
and they walk you through everything. You have a lot of reading material, they tell
you
what they're going to be doing and how important physiotherapy is.
They show you the appliances that you'll need to help
with your recovery at home, like raised toilet seats,
transfer benches to get into bathtubs,
sock aids, something as simple as a sock aid because you can't bend
to put on a sock. They do provide the information, all the reading information
and they go through it. They don't just let you read it on your own, they
walk you through each thing and of course they tell you about the
physiotherapy which they do at the hospital.
The class will run for about an hour.
At 9:30 you'll return to the clinic desk where you'll be directed to complete the rest of
your assessment. The purpose of the assessment
is to ensure that you're in good health and that we prevent any complications
that can happen during surgery.
During your pre-operative assessment will see a nurse. The nurse will review
your completed forms with you,
will take some blood work and an ECG
or electrocardiogram will be performed to ensure your heart is
functioning properly.
Next you'll see an anaesthesiologist. The anesthesiologist will continue to ask
you some more questions
to make sure you're safe as possible for your operation.
In preparation for the surgery
I attended a very comprehensive
pre-op session at the hospital which ran for
about 4 hours and I
had expected about a 15-minute meeting but
found out that they need to do some necessary medical checks
before anyone undergoes major surgery. And
they also
wanted to give the opportunity to meet with
various people that would be involved in my treatment.
This included the anesthesiologist, the pharmacist,
a nurse and a physiotherapist
and a representative from CCAC which provide home care
services following the surgery. They have
some terrific handout brochures that were
extremely informative and between the brochures and the pre-op session
I was able to get all the information I needed
to prepare for the operation and to prepare for my recovery
following the operation.
The pre-operative assessment is also an opportunity for you to ask the questions that you may have
leading up to your operation. You will have access to all the various professionals
who will be involved in your operation.
You may also be asked to see a medical.doctor during your appointment if we have any other concerns about your health
so we can make your operation is safe as possible.