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Hysterectomy and cpap
Hello...I am due to go in for a hysterectomy and was diagnosed a year ago with sleep apnea. My biggest question is when you go in for surgery, do you take your cpap with you or do you rely on the hospital's equipment? I am going to bring my machine, but I have no idea what the procedure is. The pre-op nurse is supposed to call me in the next few days as my surgery is on May 6th. More curious than anything, but wanted to see. Thanks and take care!
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Permalink Reply by Mary Z on
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M'Lady, if you were staying overnight I would have somone bring you the machine. I would not let it hang around the hospital. As for the recovery room, during my recent surgeries, DBS surgeries two weeks apart, the first night I was there over night but woken up every hour for neuro checks. Actually I couldn't wear the mask for short time afterwards due to the sutures in my head.The second time in the recovery room I was ok, came out of anesthesia quickly and the nurse watched me carefully. So if I was staying overnight, or in a room sleeping for very long, I would have someone bring it to me.
Good luck, you may be lucky and have it done outpatient.
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Permalink Reply by Walt Service on
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M'Lady, PLEASE take you're own equipment (mask/headgear/hoses/cpap machine) with you. I'm sure your hospital could provide you with fine stuff to fill in for the time you're an inpatient, but due to possible infection issues, I always push my friends/family to use their own stuff.
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Permalink Reply by Jo E on
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I had a total hip replacement a few months after I started on CPAP. Here is how it works out in the hospital with an in-patient surgery. During surgery, the anaesthesilogist will take care of your breathing. When you come out of aneasthesia, you will probably have oxygen delivered to you through your nose if you need oxygen. You can talk to your surgeon about how the oxygen will be delivered. Often, it is through a tube that feeds into your nose. However, they can do it how it is best for you. They do have different styles of masks that are similar to CPAP masks. Once you are off the oxygen (usually in a day or so, depending upon your blood oxygen levels) then you can use your CPAP the same as you would at home. If you have a procedure done out-patient, you will not need to worry about your CPAP. With my hip replacement I was in the hospital and transitional care unit for a total of 10 days.
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Permalink Reply by amott1973 on
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Take the machine! Even if you won't be there overnight. They actually have an article about this on the American Sleep Apnea Association website. the link is: http://www.sleepapnea.org/resources/pubs/hospitalcpapuse.html
Funny, I was just reading it the other day!
If you'll be under to the point where you're intubated (probably the case with you I'm guessing) then you won't need it during the surgery, but once they pull the tube, you should have it available till you're up and out of the sedation. Honestly after my gallbladder surgery and another surgery they didn't use it on me, but we had it there just in case. After one of the surgeries it was my apnea that woke me up out of the anesthesia, so I wish I'd had my mask on!
I'm going in soon for a c-section, so theoretically I'll just have a spinal block and won't be intubated, so I'll have mine there, and might even wear it during the surgery in case I do fall asleep from any sedatives or pain killers they give me.
Anyway, do read the article! Great info on there about what to ask the hospital!!
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I had 3 C-sections years before I was ever diagnosed with OSA that I had lived with all of my life. The first one I had a general anaesthetic. The second a spinal, and the third an epidural. They intentionally kept me out for quite some time after the first. With the spinal and epidural, I was not especially tired and did not become even drowsy. If I would have had a CPAP machine back then, I would have used it only for sleeping as I would at home. When I did have surgery after I was finally diagnosed, my husband brought my CPAP from home and I used it at the hospital.
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Permalink Reply by M'Lady Wench on
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Update...I took my machine and used it the night I stayed over...I am so glad I took it. They had me on oxygen, but it just wasn't the same as when I use my machine. I am healing nicely and should be fully back up and running in the next few weeks. Thank you for all the great advise and take care!
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I'm glad everything went well.
M'Lady Wench said:Update...I took my machine and used it the night I stayed over...I am so glad I took it. They had me on oxygen, but it just wasn't the same as when I use my machine. I am healing nicely and should be fully back up and running in the next few weeks. Thank you for all the great advise and take care!
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