DAY SURGERY

At least 70% of all foot and ankle surgery can be safely and efficiently performed as day surgery. This means that there is usually no need for the added expense and inconvenience of an overnight hospital stay.

A responsible adult should be available to take the patient home after surgery and provide home support for about 24 hours.

ANAESTHESIA

At AFAS the vast majority of all foot and ankle surgery is performed with intravenous sedation and local anaesthetic. Using this technique the patient has a “twilight” anaesthetic in which they have a light sleep. Local anaesthetic is used to numb the area to have surgery and this “block” usually lasts 24 to 48 hours. Patients have no anxiety during surgery and they remember very little, if anything, from their surgical experience. Most patients recover very quickly from this type of anaesthesia. Certain procedures require the use of general anaesthesia. Your podiatric surgeon will advise you of the most suitable anaesthetic for your surgery. All anaesthetics will be administered by a specialist anaesthetist who will review the patient prior to surgery.

POST OPERATIVE CARE

Most patients are reviewed by the podiatric surgeon at post op day 3 or 4, either at the day surgery centre or in the office setting. At this time all dressings and casts are changed and on going post op care is provided and explained.

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