Preparations for the Surgery

Your surgeon will give you detailed instructions on how to prepare for surgery. It will include instructions on eating and drinking, smoking, and taking or no definite vitamins, iron tablets and medications. If you have a cold or other infection of any kind, particularly a skin infection, your surgery will have to be delayed.

Although it is not very necessary, but your doctor can recommend you to have blood drawn early in case it can be needed during surgery.
Also, during your preparations for liposuction, be sure to organize for someone to drive you home after the procedure and help you at home for a day or two if necessary.

  Where Your Operation Will be Performed

Liposuction may be performed in a surgeon's office-based facility, in an outpatient surgery center, or in a hospital. Smaller-volume liposuction is usually done on an outpatient basis for reasons of cost and convenience. However, if a large volume of fat will be removed, or if the liposuction is being performed in conjunction with other procedures, a stay in a hospital or overnight nursing facility may be required.

Anesthesia for Liposuction

For liposuction procedures can be used various types of anesthesia. Mutually, you and your surgeon will choose the type of anesthesia that provides the most safe and effective stage of comfort for your surgery.

If just a small amount of fat and a restricted number of body sites are involved, liposuction can be performed under local anesthesias, which frozen only the affected areas. Moreover, if you would like, the local anesthesia can be used together with intravenous sedation to keep you more relaxed during the procedure. Concerning the more extensive procedures a good option can be a regional anesthesia. One type of regional anesthesia is the epidural block, this type of anesthesia ordinary used in childbirth.

Nevertheless, some patients prefer general anesthesia, particularly if a large volume of fat is being removed. In this case, a nurse anesthetist or anesthesiologist will be involved to make sure you are completely asleep during the procedure.

The Surgery

The time essential to make liposuction may vary significantly. All depends on the size of the area, the amount of fat being removed, the type of anesthesia and the technique applied. There are several liposuction techniques that can be used to improve the easiness of the procedure and to increase the total effect.

Generally liposuction is a procedure during which confined to a small area pieces of fat are removed to add shape along the contour of one or more areas of the body. A thin tube or cannula is put in through a tiny opening and used to vacuum the fat layer that lies profound beneath the skin. The cannula is pushed and pulled through the fat layer, breaking up the fat cells and suctioning them out. The suction procedure is supplied by a vacuum pump or a large syringe. If lots of sites are being treated, your surgeon will precede to the next area, trying to keep the cuts as unremarkable as possible.

Fluid is missing together with the fat and it's vital that this fluid be replaced during the procedure to avoid shock. That’s why, patients need to be carefully supervised and receive intravenous fluids during and directly after surgery.