April 12, 2009
Your Companion will Help with Swelling After Rhinoplasty
Your Rhinoplasty will be performed on an outpatient basis. You will most likely be placed under a general anesthetic (although in very minor cases, a local anesthetic can be used). Once you have awoken from your procedure, you will be monitored for a while with nurses checking your vital signs before you are allowed to leave the facility to recover in your own home. Since you will highly medicated, you will not be allowed to drive yourself and you must have someone sign a document stating that they will be staying with you for X amount of days after your procedure in order for you to be discharged. This is for the purpose of supplying you with ice packs for swelling after Rhinoplasty, changing your gauze pads and helping you with anything you may need until you feel up to doing the most mundane tasks yourself.
