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Your surgeon may recommend that you work with the Surgery Optimization Clinic to help you with improving your overall health before you have surgery.
Improving your health before surgery can reduce your risk for surgical complications and help you recover faster after surgery. Conditions like uncontrolled diabetes, high blood pressure, tobacco use, impaired skin integrity, poor dentation, and being overweight or underweight can have negative effects on surgical outcomes.
The benefits of working with the Surgery Optimization Clinic before surgery include:
One of the clinic's registered nurses or certified registered nurse practitioners (CRNP) will consult with you, conduct a thorough assessment of your health and provide you with important pre-surgery education.
Your nurse may talk with you over the phone. If you have a complex medical condition, a CRNP will meet with you in person at the Surgery Optimization Clinic.
After your evaluation, your nurse will talk with your surgeon about any medical condition that may significantly increase your risk for surgery. Your surgeon can use this information to decide the best course for your care. Your surgeon may recommend improving your health before surgery. This could include a new treatment or seeing another doctor for additional therapies.
Your optimization clinic nurse, surgeon, anesthesiologist and primary care doctor maintain constant contact with each other so that you receive coordinated care from start to finish.
Surgery Optimization Clinic
Located at Medical Office Building 2
2005 Technology Parkway
Suite 100
Mechanicsburg, PA 17050
Phone: 717-782-4785
Fax: 717-782-6471
Surgery Optimization Clinic
Located at Polyclinic
2501 North 3rd Street
Floor 3
Harrisburg, PA 17110
Phone: 717-782-4785
Fax: 717-782-6471
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