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Post-Op Instructions
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Keep your dressing clean and dry | |||||
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Keep your surgical site elevated above the level of your heart | |||||
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Avoid any excessive activity |
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Use ice for 10-15 minutes every hour for swelling and pain control | |||||
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Take pain medication as prescribed | |||||
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Your surgery follow up visit is generally schedules on your second post operative day | |||||
Complications | ||||||
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Should you have excessive bleeding or drainage return to our office, if after hours contact the on call physician | |||||
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Numbness/tingling, increasing pain, swelling, color change (pallor or dusky appearance) of extremity fingers/toes; first try changing positions, loosen any constrictive bandages or dressings. If no relief of symptoms within 10 minutes, contact the on call physician | |||||
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Should you have a cast applied after surgery and any of the above symptoms occur: | |||||
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Increasing redness of the surgical site: | |||||
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