Before Your Procedure

Surgery scheduling staff will call you a few days before surgery to gather your information.

You will be asked for the following information:

• Patient’s name, address and phone number.
• Patient’s Social Security number.
• Employer information.
• Health insurance information.
• Spouse and/or emergency contact information.
• Children and other patients who cannot sign legal documents must have their legal guardian or durable power of attorney for health care accompany them to surgery. Make sure you bring appropriate legal documents.

Preprocedure Appointments and Nurse Phone Calls

Your physician will assist with ordering and scheduling a preprocedure appointment. Most patients will be seen in the Perioperative Optimization Clinic before surgery. Preprocedural appointments help the surgical team prepare you for the best surgical outcome.

If you are not ordered a preprocedure appointment, you will receive a nurse phone call to review your medical and surgical history.

Bring the following to your preprocedure appointment:

• All of your medications in their original containers, including vitamins and herbal products, or a list of everything you are taking.
• List of prior procedures.
• List of the special doctors you see and what they treat you for.
• Any implant cards you may have for surgical implants (i.e., defibrillators, stents, pacemakers).

If you are not required to have a preprocedure appointment, please note:

• If you have had an EKG or chest X-ray in the past six months somewhere other than an Aultman facility, please have the results faxed to Aultman Pretest department at 330-438-9809 before your pretest appointment.
• If you are not ordered a pretest appointment, you will receive a phone call from a nurse to review your medical and surgical history.
• Have any ordered testing completed at least five days before your surgery date. For your convenience, these tests can be done at any Aultman location and no appointment is needed.