Aftercare For Facelift and Upper Eyelid Surgery for a Patient With Severe Sleep Apnea?

As other plastic surgeons have stated, your facelift surgeon will want you to spend a night or two in hospital setting, especially with neck tightening, a neck lift, or platysmaplasty. The overnight stay generally applies to all cosmetic surgery for severe sleep apnea patients on CPAP. The purpose is to monitor you breathing and oxygen levels. Your facelift plastic surgeon may advise you to avoid the CPAP machine for the first day or two after cosmetic surgery, depending on the mask size/type and area of surgery.

Only your surgeon can best determine appropriate options for you. Best of luck.

 

Patients with severe obstructive sleep apnea need to be managed cautiously in the post-operative period. I require overnight care in an accredited facility with continuous pulse-oximetry to ensure that you have no desaturation episodes. There are different styles of masks, I would show the mask to your surgeon to ensure that it will not compromise your results.