• When you go to the hospital, take with you a passport, a family doctor's appointment (if any), a policy, if any, and all recent tests and medical examinations, as well as regularly taken medicines.
• Leave home ring and jewelry when you go to the hospital. Just bring the necessary things only – a toothbrush with a toothpaste, towel, bathrobe, slippers and a bottle of water to the hospital Just bring the necessary things only – a toothbrush with a toothpaste, towel, bathrobe, slippers and a bottle of water to the hospital. In the hospital, all patients are given a clean, stylish, long-sleeved shirt, wherein patients go to the operating room.
• PBefore the surgery it is preferable to purchase “ISLA” Icelandic lichen to be used after the surgery operation period, as upon awaking up it can be itchy in the throat and suckling lichen tablets help in this case.
• You are allowed to take phones and computers with you. During the surgery operation they can be handed over to the head nurse of the department.
• Ask your doctor if you need a flexible belt after the surgery.
• Prepare the intestinal tract before surgery. A day before being admitted at the hospital at 8:00, eat a light breakfast (cottage cheese, porridge, yogurt) and starting from 12:00 no longer eat. A day before the surgery, drink 2 doses of castor oil - 15 ml (one tablespoon) at 12:00 and 15ml (one tablespoon) at 13:00.
• Remember to take your pharmaceutical drugs if you have been prescribed last night before the surgery.
• Take a shower in the evening before the surgery operation.
• Shave on the area of the pubic hair and lower the abdomen in the morning on the day of surgery.
• Clean the cosmetics upon arrival to the surgery operation.
• Remove the chewing gum, contact lenses, and dentures when you go to the surgery.
• Stop taking Aspirin 3 days before the surgery.
• Continue to take insulin and hypoglycemic agents as directed by your therapist if you are a diabetic patient. Take your insulin and hypoglycemic drugs with you.
• Patients taking anticoagulants or other specific therapies should continue to take the medicines as recommended by the therapist.
• Do not take blood pressure regulation medicines in the morning of surgery but take them to the hospital.

In the morning of the day of surgery, consultation with anaesthesiologist will take place. We recommend trying to remember the most significant facts related to your health, telling about former anaesthesia experience, and any drug intolerance already before this conversation. It is important to remember and know name of the medicinal product that has caused issues, in particular, if this intolerance has been severe – with oedema, shortness of breath, rash, even loosing of consciousness.

You must tell to the physician if you have a root abscess or any other inflammation process. It must be treated before surgery. Anaesthesiologist shall know if the patient suffers from any cardiac or vascular disease, if they have not suffered from cold recently. Patient must notify what medications have been used daily.

Immediately after surgery, patient is taken to the ward where they wake up slowly and may get up already in couple of hours.

When using narcosis, patient sometimes may experience nausea, vomiting after surgery. You must tell your doctor or nurse about any unpleasant feeling, for example, pain, breathing difficulties, numbness or vision disorder.

When you wake up from anesthesia, you should go to the facilities to urinate as soon as possible. The patient can go home only on condition that this is done.

When patient is allowed to drink, they shall use sufficient volume of liquid.

After manipulations, you may feel pulling pain in the lower part of abdomen, and you may experience light bleeding. Bleeding usually is light and disappears within a week.

On the surgery day, you may not drive. If patient is discharged home on the day of surgery, if possible, they shall spend the entire day (up to the next morning) in presence of their relatives. On the surgery day, going by public transport or walking along the street is allowed only together with a companion.

During the first days, if there is pain, physician will prescribe anaesthetics, however, the pain is usually insignificant. There is no specific restriction concerning diet. After surgery, patient may sometimes experience metabolism, thus, first 3 – 4 days we recommend soft diet – to eat something more liquid – soups, porridges and steams.

A little discomfort remains for the next few days after the surgery, sometimes accompanied by discomfort in the shoulder area due to gas irritation applied to the diaphragm during the surgery, but it disappears in the next few days. Analgesics usually help in such cases.

During recovery period, we recommend choose more cautious rhythm without any physical load for 2– 4 weeks. After a month, you may gradually return to physical activities, go to sauna etc. No specific rehabilitation required.

After the surgery, the patient should arrive at 5-7th day to replace bandage at the surgery wound. During the visit, threads are removed, and obscure questions are clarified once again.