{"id":46,"date":"2026-10-01T04:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T04:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-surgery\/what-happens-in-the-operating-theatre\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T15:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:19:09","slug":"what-happens-in-the-operating-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-surgery\/what-happens-in-the-operating-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens in the operating theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before you go in, the surgeon draws the plan on your skin with a violet marker while you sit or stand, because skin falls differently when you lie down. Ask to see the marks in a mirror.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the anaesthetic room the anaesthetist checks your name, the procedure and the side once more. The theatre team does the same before the first cut; it is a routine safety check, not a sign of doubt.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You wake in the recovery room with a nurse beside you. Most people feel sleepy, a little cold and thirsty; the nurse stays until you are ready to go back to the ward or home.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the marking pen to the recovery room, in the order it happens (sample).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-procedures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}