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Checklist
This checklist will help you prepare for your child’s surgery. Unless your doctor specifies otherwise, please follow these instructions:
Immediately
- Pre-register online.
- Arrange for a pre-operative physical and history exam within seven days before surgery. This may be done by your surgeon or by the child’s primary care doctor
Monday before surgery
Attend a tour of Children’s - Minnetonka, which is held at 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. (optional). Pre-surgery videos for parents and teens are also available on our Planning for Surgery page.
The day of surgery
- Follow your child’s doctor’s instructions about foods and clear liquids.
- Follow your child’s doctor’s instructions about medicine.
- Bring a case for your child’s eyeglasses or contact lens case and solution.
- Remove all jewelry and nail polish
- Bring your medical insurance card.
- Bring security objects, such as a pacifier, blanket, bottle or sipping cup, stuffed toy, or headphones and music player.
- Bring history and physical form and any laboratory results.
- We recommend that you make child care arrangement for siblings.
Following surgery
- Follow at-home instructions from your doctor and the day surgery center.
- Day care is not recommended for your child on the day of surgery.
- Call your doctor if you have questions about your child’s progress or call Children’s - Minnetonka at (952) 930-8655.
- In case of emergency, call the Children’s - Minneapolis emergency department at (612) 813-6117 or call 911 if immediate help is needed.
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