Preparation...
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All You Need to Know About Medical Consent
Before a doctor or any other kind of medical practitioner can treat you, they must have your consent. Although you can often be asked to sign a...
Dealing With Surgical Delays
The prospect of having to undergo surgery is enough to frighten anybody and it can cause a lot of stress. In fact, it’s often the psychological aspect of having to...
Eating and Drinking Before You Go Into Hospital
Whether you can eat and drink as normal before you go into hospital will often depend on the type of treatment you’re about to undergo but if you...
Explaining Your Hospital Stay to Young Children
If you have to go into hospital and you have young children, it can be a particularly traumatic time and very worrying for you. Nobody likes to be...
How Anaesthetic Works
Anaesthesia is quite a complex issue to understand and it’s often by combining several different techniques that the desired effect is achieved and each of these...
How Sedation Works
Some forms of operation need to be carried out under general anaesthesia as it is important that you are completely asleep while the surgery is in progress....
Preparing Mentally For a Hospital Stay
When you are told that you need to go into hospital, your physician will often give you information about how you can prepare physically before it...
Preparing Physically For a Hospital Stay
It’s important that you prepare yourself physically before you go into hospital for surgery. You can do this in a number of ways - through proper...
Preparing Your Child for Surgery
Although we all hope that our children never need to go into hospital for surgery, there is actually a very significant chance that, at some point, you’ll need to take...
Questions You May Want to Ask the Surgeon
If you are told that you need surgery, you may be so overwhelmed at the thought of it that you may come away from that initial consultation a...
What is a 'Pre-Med'?
A ‘pre-med’ is the shortened term for pre-medication, which refers to a drug or a combination of drugs which are given to patients prior to them receiving anaesthetic....
What is Meant By 'Informed Consent'?
Informed consent helps to protect both the person who is undergoing medical treatment and the hospital that is administering it. It is a form which a patient signs to...
What is Pre-Admission Testing in Hospital?
Pre-admission testing gives both the patient the opportunity to ask any questions about their forthcoming operation and it’s also necessary from a...
