Ole_Gimp
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I suspect this is going to be one of those questions that meaningful answers are going to come from the professional nursing community. Hopefully a few folks might find this of some interest…
I've endured my hip pain for too many years and have finally started to seriously look at bilateral THR. I think I have my head around the process and selection of a surgeon to perform the procedures (although I'm still sorting through the 1500 In-plan doctors my insurance company will reimburse). So far my conversations with potential doctors focused on the surgery procedures themselves. I understand that once the cutting and stitching are over in the OR and I am wheeled out of the recovery room that I'm a nursing patient to be processed to some level of medical metrics in order to be discharged within the allotted three or four days. No problem here - every one of us has goals associated with our jobs. I know that every significant discipline has a set of standard protocols they follow in order to assure efficient and consistent patient results. But how flexible are the protocols for individual aberrations?
I have a D-E-E-P psychological hang up over needles. To remain calm and not jump out of the exam room when my annual blood work is drawn is a major mind control exercise for two minutes. I understand the surgical process and believe that working with the anesthesiologist I can get put under and the surgery can be successful accomplished. It is the coming to with an IV stuck in my arm that has me rather panicked. Understand that several years ago I unintentionally, accidentally and without thinking reached up to intercept the dentist who was working in my mouth and the force of my open handed capture fractured his forearm when he forgot about my phobia and went to inject Novocain in my mouth during a procedure.
I know the medical necessity of replacing fluids and having "access" to interject medicines during the hospital stay recovery period. My query centers on do treatment protocols exist that would permit the immediate removal of the IV tubes as soon as I wake up that would produce equally successful results (abet with potential for some incremental discomfort of the patient)?
I've endured my hip pain for too many years and have finally started to seriously look at bilateral THR. I think I have my head around the process and selection of a surgeon to perform the procedures (although I'm still sorting through the 1500 In-plan doctors my insurance company will reimburse). So far my conversations with potential doctors focused on the surgery procedures themselves. I understand that once the cutting and stitching are over in the OR and I am wheeled out of the recovery room that I'm a nursing patient to be processed to some level of medical metrics in order to be discharged within the allotted three or four days. No problem here - every one of us has goals associated with our jobs. I know that every significant discipline has a set of standard protocols they follow in order to assure efficient and consistent patient results. But how flexible are the protocols for individual aberrations?
I have a D-E-E-P psychological hang up over needles. To remain calm and not jump out of the exam room when my annual blood work is drawn is a major mind control exercise for two minutes. I understand the surgical process and believe that working with the anesthesiologist I can get put under and the surgery can be successful accomplished. It is the coming to with an IV stuck in my arm that has me rather panicked. Understand that several years ago I unintentionally, accidentally and without thinking reached up to intercept the dentist who was working in my mouth and the force of my open handed capture fractured his forearm when he forgot about my phobia and went to inject Novocain in my mouth during a procedure.
I know the medical necessity of replacing fluids and having "access" to interject medicines during the hospital stay recovery period. My query centers on do treatment protocols exist that would permit the immediate removal of the IV tubes as soon as I wake up that would produce equally successful results (abet with potential for some incremental discomfort of the patient)?