Vascular Surgery

Patient Education

Detailed discussion with your surgeon about amputation surgery, hospital care, and recovery after discharge.

Your surgeon will provide you with some reading materials with similar information so that you may refer to it later.

Health Assessment

Review of your health history including your medical conditions, any history of chronic pain, prior surgeries, and prescription medications.
Physical assessment including:

Day of Surgery

Three different pain pills will be given to you just before your operation. These medications target treat pain in a variety of ways. When the pills are taken together, they are known to provide more effective pain control.
Temporary, continuous nerve block catheters will be placed in your leg by the anesthesia team just before surgery. These catheters release pain medication around your nerves to reduce pain related to the operation. The catheters will stay in place after the surgery for a few days for pain relief.

You will receive a single dose of antibiotics to prevent an infection before the procedure.

You will receive anesthesia care according to best practice recommendations:

Ideally, the operation will be completed with instead of general anesthesia

If you had a foley catheter (a catheter in your bladder to drain urine) placed before the surgery, it will be removed the day after surgery unless otherwise specified by your surgical team.
You will be allowed to eat and drink normally after surgery
On the day of your surgery, you will be helped to sit up on the side of bed with a limb guard to eat your meals.
On the day after surgery, you will be evaluated and treated by a physical therapist. You will work on getting out of your hospital bed and into a chair. The therapist will help you start to use a walker (a regular walker, not a rollator, will be used).

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