Hello. Please introduce yourself and your job.
My name is Lexane, and I’ve been working at the Paris Etoile clinic for three years since it opened. I’m a nurse.
What do you do on a daily basis at the clinic?
So my job as a nurse at the clinic is to welcome patients. In the morning, I take charge of them, explain how the day’s work is going to go, prepare them for the operating room, insert an infusion and often give them an antibiotic as a preventive measure. Afterwards, I accompany them to the operating room.
Sometimes I stay with them to put them to sleep in the OR, because some patients are quite anxious, so I usually stay and hold the mask. And then I pick them up after they’ve left the OR, after the recovery room. As we’re very mobile in the clinic, and sometimes I’m out and about, I’ll sometimes go and say hello to them in the recovery room, if I have the time and if I can.
If not, I pick them up in their room when they return and take care of them: so they see me until they leave.
As a nurse, I follow them all day long.
Are there any special considerations for lipedema patients treated with the WAL liposuction technique compared with other patients?
So pre-op, no, apart from the fact that when I call them the day before, I inform them that it may “flow” a little afterwards and that they shouldn’t worry, and that we know this very well and we’re used to it.
Post-operatively, for patients undergoing spinal anaesthesia, it’s certainly different in the sense that they don’t walk to bed from the stretcher.
We pay close attention to the first morning and even the second morning. We’re always there to prevent a small fall or any other event that might occur. It’s the same with patients undergoing general anaesthesia, because vagal discomfort is very common, so as a nurse, I’m always in the room with them for the first and second morning. I never let them get up on their own. I even walk them out. We’re much more present for lipedema than for rhinoplasty, for example.
Do you have any tips for preparing for your surgery or for going home?
I would say that you need to follow the basic instructions for all surgical procedures to prepare yourself. For the post-operative period, we reassure patients about the discomfort they may experience, the fact that they need to take off their bandages while lying down, that they need to get up and sit down in several stages, and that they need to hydrate well to compensate for their losses. We give them advice all afternoon.
Some have just come out of general anaesthesia, so it’s a bit complicated for them to remember everything, so we repeat and repeat! That way, they’re better prepared at home, because it’s very common for patients to feel a little ill, and they can panic if they haven’t been warned. The same goes for discharge, which can be very frequent.
I systematically give patients two or three undersheets for their car, their carer and their home.
Perfect. Thank you very much.
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