Eye Surgery Booklet

• Your surgeon’s office will tell you if you need to have tests done before surgery.
• You will need to have the test(s) done at a LifeLabs location.
• LifeLabs phone number: 1 (877)849-3637
• You must have your test(s) done within 3 to 28 days before the date of your surgery.
• Please tell the lab that you are having surgery at WRHN @ Queen’s Blvd. Give them the date and time of your surgery. This will help ensure that your test results are sent to the hospital in time for your surgery. If the results are not received in time, your surgery may be cancelled.

You need to complete the Pre-Anesthetic Patient Questionnaire at home.

Please completely fill out these forms and sign them. (You do not need a witness.)

Please list all medicine(s) and their dosages on the form. This includes all prescription, over-the-counter, vitamin and herbal products that you take regularly.

You must bring this completed form with you on the day of your surgery.

Items to bring with you on the day of surgery:

• Completed Pre-Anesthetic Patient Questionnaire
• Health Card
• All medications in their original containers — this includes all prescription, over-the-counter, vitamin, and herbal products that you take regularly
• Your reading glasses so you can sign your consent for surgery
• Your hearing aids

For safety and comfort, please wear:

• A light short-sleeved shirt (buttons down the front preferred)
• Socks and flat-soled shoes

You must arrange for someone to drive you home after surgery. Your driver should stay in the hospital while you have your procedure.

Please give the staff the name and contact number of your driver when you come in. If you do not have someone to drive you home, your surgery will be cancelled.

Your driver should stay in the designated waiting area during your procedure. You may not arrange to meet him or her in the lobby.

It is important that you stop smoking and drinking alcohol before surgery. Do not smoke or drink alcohol for at least 12 hours before your surgery.

Please read carefully. It is important that you understand these directions. Eating or drinking other than as directed may result in your surgery being cancelled.

• For all surgeries – You may have a healthy snack at bedtime.

No solid food after midnight the evening before surgery.

Research shows that drinking apple or cranberry juice before surgery can help reduce or prevent nausea after surgery.

• You may drink water, cranberry or apple juice overnight
• At 5:00 a.m. you may drink 500mL (2 cups) cranberry or apple juice.
• Do NOT drink anything more after 5:00 a.m.

• You may drink water, cranberry or apple juice overnight.
• At 5:00 a.m. you may drink 500mL (2 cups) cranberry or apple juice.
• At 8:00 a.m. you may drink another 500mL (2 cups) cranberry or apple juice.
• Do NOT drink anything more after 8:00 a.m.

• You may take your morning medicine(s) with a sip of water, at your usual time, unless you are told otherwise.
• If you have diabetes:
  • DO NOT take your diabetic medicines on the morning of your surgery, unless your surgeon tells you to. Bring your insulin or diabetic pills with you to the hospital.
• If you are taking Aspirin, Coumadin (warfarin), Pradaxa (dabigatran), Plavix (clopidogrel), Xarelto (rivoroxaban) or other “blood thinners” please ask your surgeon if you need to stop these before surgery.
• Do not take any herbal products or medicine for 1 week before surgery.

• All jewelry, should be removed before you come to the hospital. This includes all body piercings.
• Please do not wear eye makeup.
• Please leave your valuables, such as jewelry, credit cards, and money at home.
• One family member or friend per patient.
• Your driver should wait in the designated waiting area during your procedure (you may not meet them in lobby).
• If you need help with English, you may wish to bring someone to interpret for you. WRHN also provides interpretation – let us know if you need this help.