Do I Need To Remove Acrylic Nails Before Surgery

This is for two reasons.

Do i need to remove acrylic nails before surgery. Your operation time will depend on where you are placed on the list and can be subject to change. Will be failure to remove them results in my surgery being cancelled or anything of the sort. I do not wish to remove my acrylic nails and eye lash extensions before my breast augmentation.

Diathermy is an electric current that is used to seal bleeding blood vessels. However nail polish can also pose a challenge in this scenario as well. Nail polish prevents your surgeon from getting a clear nail bed reading.

The nail bed is one of the best places to detect cyanosis caused by low oxygen levels. Can I wear acrylic nails or nail polish into surgery. March 6 2012 at 1025 pm.

Cyan blue is the colour haemablobin goes when more than a certain proportion 5 gm I Think has become desaturated of oxygen. Ive read alot about preparing for surgery. I didnt think to ask the doc.

The reasoning behind a request is made to remove acrylic nails is to enable cyanosis to be detected by eyeballing the patients nail beds. She then went in. So next time you go to surgery you have 3 options.

Yup off everything has to come off under your nails harbours more germs and bacteria then an average toilet seat and that in a sterile theatre alone is bad news also they need to have a monitor on your finger that needs to read your pulse and cant properly with nails on. I have been advised to remove them but i cannot see that this is necessary. My preoperative appointment is next week.