Pre-Admission Testing for Knee Surgery
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Before your scheduled surgery date, you will have an appointment with the Pre-Admission Testing (PAT) Services. PAT allows you to complete the necessary medical testing and registration before your surgery. During PAT, your medical history will be reviewed and you will have a physical exam if you have not already had one through your primary care doctor’s office.
You will not meet with an anesthesiologist until the morning of surgery. He or she will discuss different types of anesthesia used during Total Knee Arthroplasty.
You will meet with a nurse to discuss any special needs you may have before or after surgery. You will also have various laboratory tests, a heart tracing (EKG) and possibly a chest X-ray (CXR), but your physician will decide this. If a decision has been made for you to donate your own blood before your surgery, your doctor’s surgical scheduler will make arrangements. The blood will be stored in the blood bank at DHMC should you need it. Our current auto-transfusion program allows us to give you back your own blood, making preoperative blood donation unnecessary in most cases.
