length of surgery
I was just wondering how long this surgery usually takes, and how soon after were you able to receive visitors. I am wondering if my husband should stay and wait at the hospital when he drops me off or not. I will want see him as soon as possible, but I also know there must be quite a bit of prep time beforehand as well as the recovery from anesthesia that they monitor you. About how long is that whole process.
Figure about 1.5-2 hours for surgery and four hours in PACU (anesthesia recovery before being assigned a room). Probably an hour or so prep time.
My wife stayed from drop off early in morning until the evening after I was in the room, basically one day off work. The next day she went to work like normal then swung by at the end of the day to pick me up.
That plan also let's the surgeon check in with them right after surgery with any updates.
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I was about 6 hours from showing up at admission to being taken to my hospital room post-surgery. It would have been 5 hours but I was the first surgery of the day for my surgeon and he was running late! The longest part of that was definitely going through all the admission and surgery prep stuff. Surgery took about 90 minutes (including hernia repair) and I was in the recovery room for about an hour before being wheeled up to my hospital room.
My husband was with me in the morning through all the prep until they wheeled me into the OR. My surgery was a little over an hour, but for several hours, I was so out of it from the anesthesia that I wasn't aware that he was there or not. He would speak to me and I'd wake briefly, but drift off to sleep again. I just wanted to sleep. He works just a few minutes from the hospital, so I sent him back to work, and that was fine. I don't think I really wanted him around until evening (after a 9AM surgery) when I started walking.
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Carol
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My surgery was just under an hour and I was in my room in 3 hrs. My husband was waiting for me in my room. I was glad to see him. I wouldn't have wanted him to leave. The team kept him informed while I was in surgery.
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The surgery itself was literally 35-40 minutes; it's all the prep time and the recovery time that are time-consuming. Each hospital has different protocols. My hubby came with me and waited through the whole thing. Once I got in my room I just wanted to sleep and that's when he took off.
Including all the waiting-around-time and recovery time, I would say it was a good 5-6 hours.
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I was in pre-op at 6:30 am, in the OR by 7:30, and in the recovery room at 11:15. It would have been much sooner (90 minutes vs almost 4 hours) but I had my gallbladder removed also, and that took twice as long as my VSG. Even that was only supposed to take 30 extra minutes but it had some issues.
My husband dropped me off and by the time he parked the car and came to the pre-op area, I was in a gown, in a bed. He stayed through the surgery and for the first night.
