Pre-op Assessment: what do they do?

[ravelling]

I have my pre-op assessment clinic appointment at Sunderland next Tuesday.
What can I expect?

 

[jaynefrances]

They'll take a full medical history and do the usual weight/height checks. You're supposed to take a urine sample but i left mine on the hall table at home !
They'll do bloods and then there's the lovely MRSA test, which was slightly more intimate than i had expected (but at least they let you do this one in privacy !)
Then they send you to outpatients for an ECG and ask you to bring the results back to the assessment clinic.
It was a lot more straightforward than i'd expected and doesn't take too long.
Not long to go now eh ? Hope to see you at one of the Sunderland support groups soon x x

 

[ravelling]

Thanks Jayne!
Yes, I plan to get to the Sunderland meeting after I've had my op.

 

[xxwendybendyxx]

Thanks Gill for asking this question was going to ask, hey you must be reading my mind now lol.
just to let you all know Ravelling is my hospital buddie we are having op on the same day and WE are on the same ward as well!!!!

 

[xxwendybendyxx]

jayne thanks for the info wendyx

 

[ravelling]

Watch out Sunderland Royal!

 

[Nightwitch]

They'll do bloods and then there's the lovely MRSA test, which was slightly more intimate than i had expected (but at least they let you do this one in privacy !)

not gonna ask lol
the MRSA swab test they did at St Richards was up my nose and in my armpit lol

 

[galm37]

not gonna ask lol
the MRSA swab test they did at St Richards was up my nose and in my armpit lol

Nose & groin for me! lol