You will be in this area approximately 30 to 60 minutes before going into surgery. You will have an IV line started and medications to help you relax may be given. If the patient is a child, a parent may go to the holding area with the child. From this area you will go to surgery. Children who go to the holding room will have a parent with them until they go to surgery.
Most children go from the outpatient area directly to surgery.
Anesthesia Decisions about the choice of anesthesia will be made together with your surgeon. It will be administered by your surgeon. If you are having general anesthesia, you will be seen by an anesthesiologist before surgery. Following your surgery, you will go to the Post Anesthesia Recovery Room for about one hour. During that time, your surgeon will talk to your family in the Outpatient Waiting area.