For Your Hospital Stay - UCSF Medical Center

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Prepare Clinic
Surgical Patients Only
Before your operation, your surgeon’s office will schedule an appointment for you at our
Prepare Clinic to ensure your readiness for surgery and anesthesia. It’s also a good time
for you to ask any questions you may have. If your English language skills are limited, or if
you are speech or hearing impaired, please let your doctor’s office know so that an interpreter
can be arranged for you at no cost.
Your Prepare Clinic appointment will last one to two hours and is usually scheduled two to
30 days before your procedure. Please arrive 15 minutes early. The program is located in
room L170 on the first floor of the Moffitt wing of the hospital.
Before you arrive, please complete the “Health History” form on page 18. You may want
to ask your primary care physician to help you. We also suggest that you bring your completed
advance directive form with you. Also, bring a complete list of your medications,
including how and when you take them. Please do not bring your actual medications
with you to the hospital unless directed by your physician. If you’ve had any heart tests
such as a stress test or echocardiogram, lung tests such as a chest X-ray or pulmonary
function, or blood vessel exams such as a carotid ultrasound, within the past two years,
please bring copies of the test results with you. Also bring results from any blood tests
done within the past three months.
During your Prepare Clinic visit, you will be registered for your future admission to the
hospital. Please remember to bring insurance cards, a copy of your advance health care
directive form and any other admission/registration forms required.
Your Prepare Clinic evaluation will include:
� Blood pressure, heart rate, oxygen saturation, height and weight measurement
� A history and physical examination by an anesthesiologist or anesthesia nurse
practitioner
� Education about anesthesia types and options
� Education about pain measurement and post-surgical pain control
� Possibly blood tests, an electrocardiogram (ECG) or a chest X-ray (CXR)
� An explanation of what will occur after surgery and a review of general pre-operative
and post-operative instructions
� Instructions about eating and drinking before surgery
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