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How harmful for your health is it to drink before knee surgery?

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Dr. Richard Pollard answered

Specializes in Anesthesiology

Risky: The alcohol intake is a major concern in two types of patients. Obviously the alcoholic in one, but the other is the one who has drunk the night before surgery. Alcohol is essentially a dehydrating agent. This is to say your blood volume is lower than normal after alcohol. When we induce anesthesia we lower the patient's blood pressure . This is made worse by alcohol. Try without before surgery.

Answered 4/24/2015

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