Day of Surgery

What You Can Expect

• To fill out some paperwork. We will help you understand what the paperwork means, and you can have a friend or family member with you during this time.
• Our staff will give you a gown to change into, which you will wear until you change to go home after surgery and recovery.
• When you are taken to the operating room, we will likely put sticky pads on your chest to track your heartbeat. We’ll also give you an oxygen mask you’ll wear through the procedure.
• We will start an IV that will be used to give you pain medicine and anesthesia to make you feel calm and fall asleep before your procedure.
• You will not remember what happens during the procedure and may not remember talking with the doctor. After our anesthesiologist gives you medicine to make you fall asleep, the next thing you know you’ll be waking up in the recovery room. Some patients do not remember their time in the recovery room either.
• After you’re awake, we may ask you to try sipping some water.
• We also will likely ask you to try standing up and walking with help.
• You may spend several hours up to a few days in the hospital, depending on which procedure you had and how your recovery is going. A procedure like the weight loss balloon would generally have the least amount of time before going home, while a procedure like the gastric bypass requires being in the hospital for a few days.