DO NOT:
- Eat or drink anything after midnight prior to surgery
- Bring valuables with you, as the hospital may not be responsible for any loss.
- Take blood thinners (Coumdin, Warfarin, Plavix, Aspirin, etc.) starting five days prior to your surgery date.
DO:
- Take your prescribed medications approved by Dr. Turnquest with a sip of water on the morning of surgery.
- Wear comfortable clothing and only essential or no make-up.
- Bring family and/or friends and your favorite music, books or magazines to help you relax.
Our Services
- Access for hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis
- Adrenalectomy (removal of adrenal glands)
- Amputations
- Antireflux surgery
- Appendectomy
- Bowel obstruction
- Breast
• Axillary node dissection including sentinal (or directed) biopsy
• Breast conservation (lumpectomy)
• Mastectomy - Cholecystectomy (removal of gallbladder)
- Colon surgery – benign or malignant disease
- Common bile duct exploration
- Gastric Neurostimulator for severe gastroparesis
- Hemorrhoidectomy
- Hiatal hernia repair
- Inguinal hernia repair
- Lymph node biopsies
- Myotomy for esophageal achalasia
- Percutaneous/open endoscopic gastrostomy
- Port-a-cath placement (for chemotherapy)
- Procedures for ulcer disease
- Skin cancers
• Basal cell carcinoma
• Melanoma w/or w/o sentinal lymphbiopsy
• Squamous cell carcinoma - Spleenectomy (removal of the spleen)
- Surgery on pancreas for cancer
- Thyroidectomy/Parathyroiectomy (one of few surgeons utilizing video assistance to decrease incision size and reduce complication)
- Tracheotomy
- Ventral hernia repair
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