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Please do not take ANY of the below over-the-counter products for 2 weeks BEFORE and AFTER surgery without first checking with our office:

  • Advil
  • Aggrenox
  • Alka Seltzer
  • Anacin
  • Arthritis Pain Formula
  • Aspirin tablets
  • Aleve
  • Bayer
  • Bufferin
  • Cama Arthritis Reliever
  • Celebrex
  • Condroitin
  • Coricidin
  • Ecotrin
  • Empirin Compound
  • Enteric Asa
  • Ephedra
  • Excedrin
  • Fish oil
  • Fiorina
  • 4-way Cold Tablets
  • Garlic tablets
  • Ginger tablets
  • Ginkgo Biloba
  • Ginseng
  • Glucosamine
  • Indocin
  • Kara
  • Milk Thistle
  • Midol
  • Mobic
  • Motrin
  • Naprosyn
  • Naproxen
  • Nuprin
  • Pentasa
  • Pepto Bismol
  • Presistin
  • Propoxyphene
  • Saw Palmetto
  • St. John's Wort
  • Trigestic
  • Valerian
  • Vanquish
  • Vitamin E (>200 units)
  • Vicoprofen
  • Warfarin
  • Echinachea
  • Goldenseal
  • Doan's Pills
  • Omega-3
  • CoQ-10

Tylenol (acetaminophen) and multivitamins are OK to use.

Supplemental Recommendations

After many years in practice and careful review of the current plastic surgery literature, Dr. Halaas recommends the following vitamin supplements for patients who are interested in preventing and reducing bruising and swelling.
They are not mandatory.

2 weeks before surgery:

  • Vitamin C 1500mg daily
  • Zinc 50mg daily
  • Arnica Montana use as directed on the bottle

1 week before surgery:

  • Bromelain one pill twice daily

Additional Information

NO SMOKING for at least 2 weeks BEFORE and AFTER surgery (Smoking while healing can cause serious complications, create a scar that is more visible, AND delay healing time).

NO DRINKING of alcoholic beverages for 1 week BEFORE and AFTER surgery.

Travel Plans:

Any surgery holds the risk of complications that may delay healing and your return to normal life. Please let the surgeon know of any travel plans, important commitments already scheduled or planned, or time demands that are important to you, so that the appropriate timing of surgery can occur. There are no guarantees that you will be able to resume all activities in the desired time frame. Allow at least 10-14 days to travel via airplane.

Medications may be required should you have a long flight/trip to prevent DVT/PE in the immediate postoperative period.

COVID-19 Safety Measures

We understand that there may be times when you miss an appointment due to emergencies or obligations for work and family.

However, due to Covid 19. and the current CDC guidelines, we are implementing a new ” no exceptions” cancellation/no show/rescheduling policy effective September 1, 2020.

If any appointment is cancelled or RESCHEDULED less than 24 hours in advance you will be charged a fee of $100. This policy will be in place until further notice and applies to new AND existing clients We apologize for any inconvenience but look forward to getting through this difficult time together.

At Dr. Halaas office, we take our staff’s and patients’ health very seriously. We are implementing safety measures to ensure everyone who comes through our doors will experience the highest level of care and the lowest risk levels.

Safety of our Employees

Each day we are taking our employees temperatures and going over a questionnaire to make sure we are all in the best of health. If anyone has a temperature over 100.4, or has fever, sore throat, chills, loss of taste, cough, shortness of breath, muscle pains, or headache, they will be asked to leave and go see their primary care doctor, or go get tested.

If an employee has been in contact with someone with Covid, we will ask them to get themselves tested, or they will have to quarantine themselves for two weeks.

We have installed a sneeze guard at our front counter for the safety of both our employees and our patients.

Safety of our Patients

Patients must sign up for our patient portal before coming to their appointment

  • Information to get into the portal will be emailed immediately after making an appointment
  • Information to be completed will be medical history as well as a Covid questionnaire
  • Covid questionnaire must be completed for EVERY visit patient makes until further notice
  • We also have a patient app, MyPatientVisit, that we can communicate with the patient when we are ready to see them

All patients must wear masks to their appointment.

We ask patients to come to their appointment alone. Minors may be accompanied by an adult.

Temperature will be taken at the door.

  • If they have a temperature over 100.4 they will be rescheduled and asked to go see their primary care doctor

Once patient has been cleared, we will escort them to their suite where they will be treated.
We have removed water and snacks from our waiting area, as well as all pamphlets regarding services.

Each room will be thoroughly disinfected in between patients
We encourage telehealth consults beforehand, so we can make a plan for when patients do come into office.

Written by Dr. Halaas

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