Your intervention has been scheduled. Here are a few important points to bear in mind when preparing for, performing and following your operation:
Preparing for the operation
To prevent surgical complications and the risk of infection, certain precautions and rules of personal hygiene are taken before the operation. Your cooperation is therefore very important.
Make-up, nail polish and jewelry are excluded.
The care team will tell you how to prepare.
It is imperative to take a shower with antiseptic soap the day before and the morning of the operation.
The nurse will show you how to shower.
Thoroughly shower the entire body, following a precise protocol, paying particular attention to..:
- face, hair,
- around the nose, ears,
- underarms, navel (cotton bud),
- genitalia,
- feet,
- The shower should be complemented by hand and foot care (cutting nails short and removing nail polish) and oral hygiene in all cases.
Specific decontamination is also required depending on the location of the operation (nose for ENT surgery, etc.).
You must fast from midnight onwards.
Please note: if you have dentures or hearing aids, bring the case with you or ask for a special box. You must remove them for the operating room and leave them on your bedside table, notifying the nursing staff.
Don’t hesitate to ask the nursing staff and doctors if you have any questions.
The day of the operation
To ensure that you are in the best possible frame of mind, your nurse will give you a pre-medication before you leave for the operating room.
You will then be taken by the stretcher-bearers to the operating room waiting room, where you will be met by the operating room team.
The operating theatre is located on level -3.
Before any surgical procedure begins, a number of elements are verified: your identity, the pathology you suffer from and the side of the condition.
You will then be taken by the technician and nursing assistants to the operating room, where the anesthesia team will prepare you for anesthesia.
After the operation
As soon as you leave the operating room, you will be taken to the recovery room, where you will stay for a few hours. This can vary from 2 to 5-6 hours, depending on how long you wake up. The evacuation of drugs used for anaesthesia takes varying amounts of time, depending on the individual and the duration of the procedure. The medical and paramedical team will make sure that you wake up as smoothly as possible, and will administer an appropriate painkiller.
Visits from relatives are not possible in the recovery room. They will be possible at the end of the day or the following morning, depending on the time you return to the department.
However, your loved ones will be able to ask for news by contacting the resident on duty in the Neurosurgery Department, who will be able to give them news directly or put them in touch with your surgeon.
Don’t hesitate to ask the neurosurgeon, the day before the operation when he comes to see you, to tell your family and friends what will happen at the end of the operation, and to give him a telephone number where they can be reached.
To contact the intern on duty, call 01 49 95 65 65 and ask for number 51 33.
Depending on the nature and duration of the operation, you will then be hospitalized in the Neurosurgery Intensive Care Unit (12 beds) on the second floor, for 24, 48 or even more hours if your condition requires more prolonged intensive monitoring.
As soon as your condition allows, and depending on your surgeon’s prescription, you will return to the conventional hospitalization floors (2nd and4th floors).