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ACDF Fusion
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Lumbar Fusion
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More Preop Patient Instructions:
- Stop smoking several days before surgery
- Do not eat or drink after midnight prior to surgery date
- Medications may be taken with small sips of water after midnight
- Stop blood thinners such as coumadin one week before surgery
- Stop aspirin products one week before surgery
- Stop advil, Aleve, Motrin, and other NSAID's one week before surgery
- Stop garlic, fish oil, other herbal products one week before surgery
- Stop plavix, trental, and other blood thinning products one week before surgery
- Get history and physical from family MD or internal medicine MD within two weeks
- Surgery will be canceled if there is no pain or dramatic improvement of pain
- Surgery will be canceled if there are symptoms of cold or flu
- For fusion patients they cannot take aspirin or Motrin products 1st 6 months after surgery
- For fusion patients they cannot take fosomax or other products 1st 6 months after surgery
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