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I have high blood pressure & i am scheduled for a total hip replacement in 6 days. is the surgery likely to be cancelled?
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Preoperative eval: They usually do a preoperative evaluation for this and if your blood pressure is too high and they are not comfortable doing the surgery, they will postpone it.
Answered 2/25/2018
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