The body has a major role in the healing process. Use this advice to recover faster after surgery.

Reduce stress to recover from surgery faster

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The advice is simple—to minimize complications after surgery, listen to your doctor. In this video, Kevin Windom, MD of the Sharecare Advisory Board explains the best ways to minimize complications after robotic surgery.

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Studies are showing good results from aortic stent graft procedures well after the procedure. In this video, Joshua Greenberg, MD, of Mercy Health, explains what patients can expect long-term after the procedure.

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There's a study out of Duke University that found the rate of anesthesia related complications is higher at about three to four in the afternoon than any other part of the day when you're considering surgery. So the safest time to have surgery technically is earlier in the morning when the people are fresher, you're not having that mid afternoon sleepiness and you're also not dealing with the shift changes that occur at about 3 or 4 o'clock. 

Many hospitals, the entire operating room staff, except the surgeon, changes over between 3 and 4 pm and this is considered a potential danger zone for surgery if you're considering anaesthesia. 
  

When it comes to preventing possible complications from anesthesia during surgery, it's all in the timing. Find out when it's best to go under the knife by watching this video featuring plastic surgeon Dr. Anthony Youn.

What's the Best Time of Day for Surgery?

Most of us think of snoring as a silly thing and really more of a habit than a problem. Snoring is actually a sign of an underlying problem with your airway and what happens when you go to sleep at night or if you're napping, it's normal for your muscles in the throat region to relax, that causes the airway to narrow. 

As the airway narrows, airflow can become more turbulent and that will vibrate tissues, that's what snoring is. So we know that anyone that is snoring has a little a bit more of a narrowness to their airway than we would like, and it in fact can actually collapse down all the way as if you were suffocating. 

Your brain realizes there's a problem with your breathing and responds to your needs and it will return the tone to those muscles so your airway opens up again and you can breathe normally. Now imagine if you're going for surgery or a procedure that requires sedation, well your brain just will not respond properly to your needs, it's sedated. 

So if you are going for surgery you want to make sure you alert your doctors to the fact that you do snore. Your doctor then should do a simple screen asking you some questions to determine if you are someone that's at high risk for problems when you go to that procedure to the OR. 

And failing to do so leaves you at risk for sudden death from cardiac or respiratory failure, and the consequences of that can be serious. You could end up with brain injury and sometimes even death. So as silly as snoring may sound, it's deadly serious when you're going for a procedure or surgery. 

  

Snoring is a sign of an underlying problem with your airways, which could put you at risk for issues during a surgical procedure. Watch internist and sleep expert Carol Ash, DO, explain why you should tell your doctor if you snore before surgery.

Why Is It Important to Tell My Doctor I Snore Before Having Surgery?

 You know, most of us think of snoring as a silly thing and really more of a habit than a problem. 

Snoring is actually a sign of an underlying problem with your airway. And what happens when you go to sleep at night 

or if you're napping, it's normal for your muscles in the throat region to relax. That causes the airway to narrow. 

As the airway narrows, airflow can become more turbulent and that will vibrate tissues. That's what snoring is. 

So we know that anyone that is snoring has a little bit more of a narrowness to their airway than we would like. 

And it, in fact, can actually collapse down all the way as if you were suffocating. Your brain realizes there's a problem with your breathing 

and responds to your needs, and it will return the tone to those muscles so your airway opens up again and you can breathe normally. 

Now, imagine, if you're going for surgery or a procedure that requires sedation, well, your brain 

just will not respond properly to your needs. It's sedated. If you are going for surgery, you 

want to make sure you alert your doctors to the fact that you do snore. Your doctor, then, should do a simple screen asking you 

some questions to determine if you are someone that's at high risk for problems when you go to that procedure 

to the or. And failing to do so leaves you at risk for cardiac or respiratory failure. 

And the consequences of that can be serious. You can end up with brain injury and sometimes, even death. 

So as silly as snoring may sound, it's deadly serious when you're going for a procedure or surgery. 

I'm often asked, what factor should I consider when I'm considering multiple procedures, and obviously his health, you have to have great great physical health but as important is medical heath and mental health, so I usually will send my patients to get medical clients, if I think there is any, psychological questioning, I'll send them to the psychiatrist or the psychologist, because we want to end up in a perfect perfect situation, we want them to be happy physically, we want them to mentally and we want them to look twice as good as they did proud coming and I did surgery. 

  

The main factor you should consider when having multiple plastic surgery procedures is that you must be in good physical and mental health. Watch plastic surgeon Michael Niccole, MD, explain why overall good health is key for successful procedures.

Reduce stress to recover from surgery faster

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