Before your scheduled surgical procedure with a surgeon at Advanced Surgical Associates, please follow these instructions:
Seven days before surgery
Stop taking all blood thinners – Aspirin, Plavix, Coumidin, etc.
The day before surgery
Nothing to eat or drink after midnight
Pre-operative preparation for stomach and weight loss surgery
- Drink only clear liquids
- Take one bottle of Miralax at 2:00pm
Pre-operative bowel preparation instructions for colon surgery
Before your scheduled surgical procedure, please follow this instruction:
- Only clear liquid diet
- Drink water liberally throughout the day
8:00am the day before surgery
- Reglan (Metocloperamide) 10 mg by mouth
10:00am the day before surgery
- Start Halflytely Bowel Prep Kit
1:00pm the day before surgery
- Neomycin Sulfate: 1 gram orally
- Erythromycin Base: 1 gram orally
2:00pm the day before surgery
- Neomycin Sulfate: 1 gram orally
- Erythromycin Base: 1 gram orally
- Reglan (Metocloperamide) 10 mg by mouth
8:00pm the day before surgery
- Reglan (Metocloperamide) 10 mg by mouth
11:00pm the day before surgery
- Neomycin sulfate: 1 gram orally
- Erythromycin base: 1 gram orally
- Reglan (Metocloperamide) 10 mg by mouth
After midnight the night before surgery
- Take nothing by mouth
6:00am the morning of surgery
- Take your usual oral medications with a sip of water
Fleet enema
Give yourself a Fleet enema about an hour before leaving your home for the hospital the morning of surgery if instructed by your surgeon.
