Your NP will review your medical and surgical history with you. You may have tests, such as an electrocardiogram EKG to check your heart rhythm, a chest x-ray, blood tests, and any other tests needed to plan your care.
Your NP may also recommend that you see other healthcare providers. A WOC nurse is a registered nurse who specializes in wound and ostomy care. A WOC nurse will also show you a colostomy pouch so you can get familiar with it. Your caregiver plays an important role in your care.
Before your surgery, you and your caregiver will learn about your surgery from your healthcare providers. For support resources and information, visit www. The person you identify is called your health care agent.
You can also read the resources Advance Care Planning and How to Be a Health Care Agent for information about health care proxies, other advance directives, and being a health care agent. If you take aspirin or a medication that contains aspirin, you may need to change your dose or stop taking it 7 days before your surgery.
Aspirin can cause bleeding. Stop taking vitamin E, multivitamins, herbal remedies, and other dietary supplements 7 days before your surgery. These things can cause bleeding. For more information, read the resource Herbal Remedies and Cancer Treatment.
Your healthcare provider will give you a prescription for antibiotics to take as part of your bowel preparation. These medications can cause bleeding. This will lower your risk of getting an infection. A clear liquid diet includes only liquids you can see through. If you have any questions, talk with your healthcare provider. Once the powder is dissolved, you can put the mixture in the refrigerator if you want to. At pm on the day before your surgery, start drinking the MiraLAX mixture.
At pm on the day before your surgery, take your antibiotics as instructed. A staff member from the Admitting Office will call you after pm the day before your surgery. The staff member will tell you what time to arrive at the hospital for your surgery. Showering with it before your surgery will help lower your risk of infection after surgery.
Your nurse will give you a bottle to use before your surgery. This includes hard candy and gum. Do not drink anything starting 2 hours before your scheduled arrival time. This includes water. If your healthcare provider told you to take certain medications the morning of your surgery, take only those medications with a sip of water.
Depending on what medications you take, this may be all, some, or none of your usual morning medications. Use it the same way you did the night before. If you have questions about prices, call To reach the garage, turn onto East 66 th Street from York Avenue. The garage is located about a quarter of a block in from York Avenue, on the right-hand north side of the street.
When you get to the hospital, take the B elevator to the 6 th floor. Check in at the desk in the PSC waiting room. This is for your safety. People with the same or a similar name may be having surgery on the same day. Tell them the dose of any medications you took after midnight including prescription and over-the-counter medications, patches, and creams and the time you took them.
Your nurse may place an intravenous IV line in one of your veins, usually in your arm or hand. A member of the operating room team will help you onto the operating bed and place compression boots on your lower legs. These gently inflate and deflate to help blood flow in your legs. They may also cover them with a bandage. The information in this section will tell you what to expect after your surgery, both during your hospital stay and after you leave the hospital.
A nurse will be keeping track of your body temperature, pulse, blood pressure, and oxygen levels. You may be getting oxygen through a thin tube that rests below your nose or a mask that covers your nose and mouth.
There are different ways that pain medication can be given:. Your healthcare provider will talk with you before choosing the best one s for you. Your healthcare providers will talk with you about what to expect. Most people stay in the hospital for about 2 to 4 days. Your care team will tell you what to expect. Soon after you arrive in your room, your nurse will help you out of bed and into your chair.
You can help yourself recover more quickly by doing the following things:. Read the resource Call! Don't Fall! Your healthcare providers will ask you about your pain often and give you medication as needed. Controlling your pain will help you recover better. Many people find their pain is controlled with over-the-counter medications alone.
If you need stronger pain medication in the hospital, one of your healthcare providers will give you a prescription before you leave.
Talk with your healthcare providers about possible side effects and how to taper slowly stop taking your medication. Moving around and walking will help lower your risk for blood clots and pneumonia lung infection. It will also help you start passing gas and having bowel movements pooping again.
Read your recovery pathway to learn about your specific moving and walking goals. Your nurse, physical therapist, or occupational therapist will help you move around, if needed.
Read your pathway and talk with your care team for more information. Your healthcare provider will give you dietary guidelines to follow after your surgery. A clinical dietitian nutritionist will visit you in your hospital room to go over these guidelines with you before you leave the hospital.
Young children and, sometimes, older children and adults may swallow toys, coins, safety pins, buttons, bones, wood, glass, magnets, batteries or other foreign objects. These objects often pass all the way through the digestive tract in 24 to 48 hours and cause no harm. But problems may arise when objects are stuck for a long time, are sharp, are magnetic or contain corrosive materials. Complications can include tears in the esophagus the tube that connects the mouth and stomach , movement of the object into the tissue of the esophagus, and infection.
Small magnets can pose a special problem. If more than one is swallowed, they can stick together and erode through tissue. To continue reading this article, you must log in. Already a member? Login ». As a service to our readers, Harvard Health Publishing provides access to our library of archived content. Aspirin can cause bleeding. Stop taking vitamin E, multivitamins, herbal remedies, and other dietary supplements 7 days before your surgery.
These things can cause bleeding. For more information, read the resource Herbal Remedies and Cancer Treatment. These medications can cause bleeding. A staff member from the Admitting Office will call you after pm the day before your surgery. The staff member will tell you what time to arrive at the hospital for your surgery.
Showering with it before your surgery will help lower your risk of infection after surgery. Your nurse will give you a bottle to use before your surgery. This includes hard candy and gum. Do not drink anything starting 2 hours before your scheduled arrival time.
This includes water. If your healthcare provider told you to take certain medications the morning of your surgery, take only those medications with a sip of water.
Depending on what medications you take, this may be all, some, or none of your usual morning medications. Use it the same way you did the night before. If you have questions about prices, call To reach the garage, turn onto East 66 th Street from York Avenue.
The garage is located about a quarter of a block in from York Avenue, on the right-hand north side of the street. When you get to the hospital, take the B elevator to the 6 th floor. Check in at the desk in the PSC waiting room. This is for your safety. People with the same or a similar name may be having surgery on the same day.
Tell them the dose of any medications you took after midnight including prescription and over-the-counter medications, patches, and creams and the time you took them. Your nurse may give you medication to help with pain after surgery. Your nurse may place an intravenous IV line in one of your veins, usually in your arm or hand.
Your doctor or anesthesiologist may also talk with you about placing an epidural catheter thin, flexible tube in your spine back. An epidural catheter is another way to give you pain medication after your surgery. A member of the operating room team will help you onto the operating bed and place compression boots on your lower legs. These gently inflate and deflate to help blood flow in your legs. A urinary Foley catheter will also be placed to drain urine pee from your bladder.
Once your surgery is finished, your incision will be closed with staples or sutures stitches. Your incisions will be covered with a bandage.
The information in this section will tell you what to expect after your surgery, both during your hospital stay and after you leave the hospital. A nurse will be keeping track of your body temperature, pulse, blood pressure, and oxygen levels. You may be getting oxygen through a thin tube that rests below your nose or a mask that covers your nose and mouth. Your healthcare provider will talk with you about what to expect. After your stay in the PACU, a staff member will take you to your hospital room.
Most people stay in the hospital for 6 days after having a Whipple procedure. Soon after you arrive in your room, your nurse will help you out of bed and into your chair. You can help yourself recover more quickly by doing the following things:. Read the resource Call! Don't Fall! Your healthcare providers will ask you about your pain often and give you medication as needed.
Controlling your pain will help you recover better. If you had a minimally invasive surgery, you may have pain in your shoulder. This is called referred pain. If you have pain in your shoulder, tell your healthcare provider.
Talk with your healthcare provider about possible side effects and when to start switching to over-the-counter pain medications. Moving around and walking will help lower your risk for blood clots and pneumonia lung infection. It will also help you start passing gas and having bowel movements pooping again. Your nurse, physical therapist, or occupational therapist will help you move around, if needed. During your surgery, some of your digestive organs were moved or removed.
After your surgery, your digestive system needs time to heal and adjust to the changes. The table below is a guideline. If you have a drainage tube in your abdomen, your healthcare team will keep track of how much fluid is draining from the tube. Your healthcare team will tell you what to expect.
Your case manager may also arrange for a home care nurse to visit you at home to help you. A member of your healthcare team will help you. Before you leave, look at your incision with one of your healthcare providers.
Knowing what your incision looks like will help you notice any changes later. On the day of your discharge, plan to leave the hospital around am. Before you leave, your healthcare provider will write your discharge order and prescriptions.
Wet-to-dry dressing. Wet the gauze, and squeeze out the excess water or saline , before putting it on. Then, cover this with a dry pad. If you were given antibiotics, take them until they are used up or your healthcare provider tells you to stop. It is important to finish the antibiotics even though you feel better, to make sure the infection has cleared. You can take acetaminophen or ibuprofen for pain, unless you were given a different pain medicine to use.
Note: If you have chronic liver or kidney disease, have ever had a stomach ulcer or gastrointestinal bleeding, or are taking blood thinner medicines, talk with your healthcare provider before using these medicines. Aspirin should never be used in anyone under 18 years of age who is ill with a fever.
It may cause severe liver damage. Follow up with your healthcare provider, or as advised, for your next wound check or removal of your sutures, staples, or tape. If a culture was done, you will be notified if the results will affect your treatment. You can call as directed for the results. If imaging tests, such as X-rays, an ultrasound, or CT scan were done, they will be reviewed by a specialist.
You will be notified of the results, especially if they affect treatment. Discomfort in the center of the chest that feels like pressure, squeezing, a sense of fullness, or pain. Discomfort or pain in other upper body areas, such as the back, one or both arms, neck, jaw, or stomach. T: Time to call Even if the symptoms go away, call Was this helpful? Yes No Tell us more.
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