Critical Medicine and Treatment

ANESTHESIA

Breast augmentation can be performed with general anesthesia, ie “sleep” during the entire operation. Some surgeons may use local anesthesia combined with a sedative to make you drowsy, so that the patient relax. If local anesthesia and sedition, surgery is an outpatient basis. If general anesthesia, need 24 hours of hospitalization.

POSTOPERATIVE

After breast surgery it is normal to be a little tired some days, but can make life almost normal at 48 hours. approx. Most complaints are well controlled with medication prescribed by your plastic surgeon, but your breasts may hurt a couple of weeks.

It is important to carry out a thorough dressing to keep the implants in their proper place, which has a week to avoid the same rotations.

Then for a month should sleep supine and with a fastener that holds the position of the implants. It expired drain is removed within 24 hours after surgery.

The bandage or dressing will be removed in a few days, replaced by a bra, which should lead the way by your surgeon. It is normal during the first two weeks.

The sutures are removed between 7 and 14 days, the edema is not completely gives up to 3 or 6 weeks. After breast augmentation may return to work in a few days, depending on the activity carried out.

You should follow the instructions from your surgeon about which exercises can be performed, avoiding lifting above the head for 2 to 3 weeks. The breasts are more sensitive than normal for 2 or 3 weeks, so it may be desirable to avoid excessive contact until 3 or 4 weeks.

At first, the scars will be pink, something that would improve continuously from 6 weeks. After several months, the scars begin to fade but never disappear forever. You can return to their gym class and sunbathing, but protect the wound just 30 after the operation.

The patient should massage your breast as indicated by the specialist from the 20th of the procedure to prevent encapsulation of the prostheses, as with any foreign object is inserted into the human body.

Regular examination by the plastic surgeon and routine mammograms for appropriate age groups at prescribed intervals will help ensure that any complications, if it occurs, can be detected early and treated.

Some women with breast implants have reported symptoms similar to immune system diseases such as scleroderma (connective tissue chronically ill, the term means “hard skin,” which describes the hardening of the skin due to increased deposits collagen) and another as arthritis.

These symptoms can include pain or joint swelling, fever, fatigue or chest pain. The investigation found no clear link between silicone breast implants and symptoms that doctors refer to as “connective tissue disorders, but are still asking for evidence.

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