• Do not eat or drink anything after midnight.
• Take your regularly scheduled morning heart and BP medications on the day of surgery with a small sip of water.
• Bring all of your medications with you.
• Stop any over the counter supplements and herbals 2 WEEKS before surgery.
• Stop any diet pills 2 WEEKS before surgery.
• Stop smoking at least 24 hrs. prior to surgery. Stopping for six to eight weeks before surgery is ideal.
• Remove contact lenses and removable dental appliances before entering the operating room.
• If you are a chronic pain patient, you may take your regularly scheduled morning dose of pain medications on the day of surgery with a small sip of water. Please let your anesthesia provider know if you are using a fentanyl patch.

Your anesthesiologist will want to know:

• Your medical problems
• List of medications
• If you smoke or drink alcohol and how much
• Drug allergies
• Any previous problems you have had with anesthesia or any family history of problems with anesthesia.