In the bed, patients are positioned in a semi-sitting up position with the knees and the back bent. Make sure that there is no tension or pulling on these drains and empty them frequently.
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The nurse will show you and/or your family how to record their output, and to empty them periodically. These drains attach to a bulb-like collection container. Several tummy tuck drain tubes come out from the flanks or in the pubic area.
Within the first three hours after your surgery, it is not wise to eat much of anything, expect for liquids, because of the risk of vomiting.
Make sure that the girdle is not too tight and that its waist is kept riding high at the level of your breast fold. Do not change, remove, or mainpulate your girdle until instructed to do so by your plastic surgeon. There might be some drainage or soiling of your girdle from your wounds, which is normal. You would be wearing an abdominal or body girdle. After SurgeryĪfter a tummy tuck or a body lift it is normal to feel tight around the tummy, thighs, and buttocks. When you are stable to go home or to the after care facility your nurse will give tummy tuck after care instructions regarding care for your tummy tuck drains, diet, and dressing changes. Because mobility of your extremities is very important to keep your circulation going to avoid formation of blood clots, your nurse might assist you in taking a few steps. Although pain medications help make your tummy tuck pain tolerable, they do not eliminate pain altogether.ĭuring your tummy tuck recovery in the surgery center, you are also kept warm with special warming blankets and your calves are being massaged by special stockings. In the Recovery Room, at the California Center for Plastic Surgery patients receive pain medications, antibiotics, intravenous fluids, and anti-nausea medications.
After a tummy tuck proceudre, patients are monitored in the Recovery Room for several hours until they are stable enough to go home, or to an aftercare facility. Abdominoplasty, tummy tuck, body lift, and thigh lift procedures are all performed under general anesthesia.
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