Y​ou’ll wake up in the recovery room. Once you’re ready, you’ll be transferred to your room. Visitors aren’t allowed in the recovery room.

 

You’ll have an IV to give you fluid and medicine (may include pain and/or nausea medicine).

You may also have:

• an oxygen mask (a small plastic mask over your mouth and nose) or a tube sitting under your nose to give you extra oxygen
• a urine cathether (a tube in your bladder to drain your urine); may be taken out before you wake up in the recovery room
• compression stockings on your legs to keep good blood flow in your legs
• a dressing on your wounds
• a drain near the area where the surgical cut was made to take extra fluid away from the surgery site

Your nurse will:

• check your heart, breathing, blood pressure, and blood oxygen level often at first (vital signs)
• check your dressing​