Surgery guide
Your surgery guide
Simple steps to help you get ready for surgery and heal well at home. Pick the page that fits your surgery.
Call 911 right away if you have:trouble breathing, chest pain, a seizure, sudden weakness or numbness on one side of your body, trouble speaking, or you are very hard to wake up.
Start here
Getting Ready for Surgery
What to do in the weeks and the night before your operation. Read this first, no matter what kind of surgery you are having.
Open guide →When to Call Us
Warning signs after surgery, and who to call. Keep this page handy at home.
Open guide →After your surgery
After Brain Surgery
Going home after a craniotomy or other surgery on the head.
Open guide →After Neck Surgery
Going home after surgery on the cervical spine.
Open guide →After Low Back Surgery
Going home after surgery on the lumbar spine.
Open guide →After Nerve Surgery
Going home after carpal tunnel, ulnar, or peroneal nerve surgery.
Open guide →Caring for Your Incision
How to keep your cut clean, dry, and healing well.
Open guide →Each page prints cleanly. You can print it and keep it on your refrigerator. Questions? Call us at 641-428-7847.