Your Guide to Surgery at Akron General Medical Center
Please Bring with You
Please bring the following with
you on the day of your pre-surgical testing or on
the day of your surgery if you did not have pre-surgical
testing:
Health care insurance card.
This booklet and a list of
any special equipment (i.e. insulin pump, oxygen
tank, c-pap machine, etc.) that is used at home.
A copy of your completed Advance
Directives. There may not be sufficient time available
the day of surgery to complete. (optional - see
pg. 12 for description).
Your patient health history
completed in black ink (form provided in the front
of this booklet) and a complete listing of medicines
with dosages that are prescribed or over-the-counter
medications.
Any doctor orders.
Any completed tests from another
facility or doctor (i.e. test results, EKGs, X-rays).
Your completed History and
Physical, if completed in the last 30 days by
your primary care doctor or any other doctor.
(Otherwise, a History and Physical may be completed
and billed to you or your insurance company.)