Driving Home After Smart Lipo?

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Latest answer by Joel Schlessinger, MD
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Is it possible to drive yourself home after Smart Lipo?

7 answers to Driving Home After Smart Lipo?

Why would you want to???

After any surgery, there is a possibility that you may have difficulties and not be 'quite yourself'. For this reason, it is a very bad idea to drive home after surgery. You may feel quite well, but have serious issues after surgery and get in an accident. Take a cab if you don't have...

Joel Schlessinger, MD
Omaha Dermatologist

www.LovelySkin.com

Post-surgery driving

It is not a good idea to drive yourself home after a procedure whehter it is liposuction or something else. Many times you are given medications to sedate you, and you certainly do not want to fall asleep at the wheel. We make it a rule in my office that a patient has to be accompanied home by someone, and we recommend that someone stays with you for at least 24 hours after the procedure.

Steven Wallach, MD
Manhattan Plastic Surgeon

Driving home after any surgical procedure should be strongly discouraged.

SmartLipo is still liposuction and it is a surgical procedure. Despite the fact that it is done under local anesthesia, I would not recommend to any of my patients that they drive home. You never know when you may feel queasy, leak some blood, or any number of other concerns that are not anticipated. Get a friend or trusted one to drive you home.

Francisco Canales, MD
Santa Rosa Plastic Surgeon

Driving after liposuction

Unless the liposuction was EXTREMELY minor and you received no sedation medications, you should have somebody drive you home. More goes on under the surface than you might think with liposuction so it would be smart to have a designated driver.

Richard P. Rand, MD, FACS
Seattle Plastic Surgeon

Laser lipolysis and driving home

This really depends on the medications you have recieved and the extent of the procedure. If you are simply having you neck or outer thighs that is quite feasible but having your abdomen, inner and outer thighs treated and driving home alone may not be necessarily wise

Otto Joseph Placik, MD
Chicago Plastic Surgeon

Caution about driving home after SmartLipo

If your procedure is done with straight local anesthesia, there are no bandages blocking your view and you have not been treated in an area that could pain or cramp your foot peddles or steering wheel...then you are OK. If you take oral medical such as Valium or Precocet, have procedures done in you neck, arms or legs, these would all represent conditions that would make it more prudent to have someone drive you.

Barry E. DiBernardo, MD
Montclair Plastic Surgeon

Driving after smart lipo

Yes, but it depends on the size of the area treated and the anesthesia that is uses. Safety should always come first above and beyond all else so that is the bottom line. If it is safe in your case then you can drive home after smart lipo.

John P. Stratis, MD
Harrisburg Plastic Surgeon

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