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Preoperative Procedures Before Surgery

Dr. Juan Carlos Suarez, Orthopedic Surgeon with Miami Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Institute, says to undergo surgery you need a full evaluation to make sure that from a medical standpoint you are healthy and you can withstand surgery. "You have to check if there are modifiable risk factors. If you're diabetic you need to make sure that we minimize the risk of infection, if you're a smoker you need to quit smoking, if you're obese you need to drop some weight," he explains.

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