Denise Morris
New Member
A WORD OF ADVICE TO ALL PRE OPPERS
If when you first saw Nurse/Doctor in clinic for initial assessment and any mention was made of needing further investigations eg sleep studies, treatment of new or poorly controlled blood pressure/diabetes/asthma/heart problems (details will be in your copy of the letter sent to your GP – so request a copy of all letters) and if needed Nurse/Doctor will have asked GP to make appropriate referral/instigate treatment.
If this is the case and you have not had required tests by time you come for pre-op assessment be warned you could end up having SURGERY CANCELLED until these have been done and that cannot be arranged before surgery once you have got to pre op clinic as there just is not sufficient time.
Once hospital has contacted your GP it is his/her responsibility to refer you to local hospital for any required tests and forward results to Consultant.
Therefore if you check your letters and find you should have been referred/treated and have not been discuss with GP asap and if any problems mention to Consultant.
This also applies to anyone having a pre op gastroscopy please make sure you are told the result of any biopsies taken to test for helicobacter pylori infection because if infection is found as you YOU WILL NEED A COURSE OF TREATMENT BEFORE YOUR SURGERY and usually endoscopy send out result to GP requesting this within a couple of days but this can sometimes be over looked (as happened in my case but lucky I checked 4 weeks later due to persistent heartburn and previous infection) so if you have not heard anything so for your own sake contact GP to check he has received result or ring endoscopy and ask them to check.
We have had a couple of incidents recently where requested tests/treatment has not been carried out and inevitably led to cancellation of surgery leading to great disappointment for the patient.
Act before your surgery date and this will save any disappointment later on.
If when you first saw Nurse/Doctor in clinic for initial assessment and any mention was made of needing further investigations eg sleep studies, treatment of new or poorly controlled blood pressure/diabetes/asthma/heart problems (details will be in your copy of the letter sent to your GP – so request a copy of all letters) and if needed Nurse/Doctor will have asked GP to make appropriate referral/instigate treatment.
If this is the case and you have not had required tests by time you come for pre-op assessment be warned you could end up having SURGERY CANCELLED until these have been done and that cannot be arranged before surgery once you have got to pre op clinic as there just is not sufficient time.
Once hospital has contacted your GP it is his/her responsibility to refer you to local hospital for any required tests and forward results to Consultant.
Therefore if you check your letters and find you should have been referred/treated and have not been discuss with GP asap and if any problems mention to Consultant.
This also applies to anyone having a pre op gastroscopy please make sure you are told the result of any biopsies taken to test for helicobacter pylori infection because if infection is found as you YOU WILL NEED A COURSE OF TREATMENT BEFORE YOUR SURGERY and usually endoscopy send out result to GP requesting this within a couple of days but this can sometimes be over looked (as happened in my case but lucky I checked 4 weeks later due to persistent heartburn and previous infection) so if you have not heard anything so for your own sake contact GP to check he has received result or ring endoscopy and ask them to check.
We have had a couple of incidents recently where requested tests/treatment has not been carried out and inevitably led to cancellation of surgery leading to great disappointment for the patient.
Act before your surgery date and this will save any disappointment later on.
