For a patient just decided to have an operation with general anesthesia （For Pediatrics）
＊This is a noteon precautions for your hospital admission.
①Please note that you cannot receive any vaccination 2 weeks before your operation or 1 week after your leaving hospital.
（Your operation might be cancelled if you don’t observe these instructions.）
②Contagious diseases:
Peculiar to children （i.e.Measles, German measles, chicken pox and mumps.）:
Youcannot be hospitalized nor have any operations, if you havecontacted withthe patients of these contagious diseases without vaccination against these diseasesor without previous medical histories of these. We will take a wait-and-see approach 3 weeks after the contact as the incubation period （the potential period of displaying symptoms.）
Influenza:
If you have contacted with the influenza patients, you cannot be hospitalized nor have any operations 1 week after the contact, even with any vaccination against it.
（Please contact us if your preoperative examination is scheduled duringyour incubation periodof these contagious diseases. To prevent the hospital-acquired infection, we will reschedule the date of your preoperative examination for you.）
＊If you are in such conditions asa high fever, a lot ofcough,a yellow runny nose (purulent nasal discharge) or frequent diarrhea, we will postpone or cancel yourpreoperative examination, hospitalization or operations.
③Your next visit to our hospital will be on the day of your preoperative examination. Please visit us in good condition and in time for your appointment.
＜Attention＞
・Please fill out a medical interview sheet we gaveyou today and take it with you on the day of your preoperative examination. Please hand it to a nurse of the department you will have the operation.
・We will administer the blood examinationand the chest X-ray examination for your preoperative examination. We will also measure your height and weight.
The urinary test and/or the electrocardiogram examination are only if needed. Please collect your urine sample at home, if you need the urinary test. Please refer to the instructions on the back (of )to collect the pediatric patient urine sample,if s/he still uses diapers. The nurse will give you the urine collection receptacle. Please put your name to the receptacle with a permanent marker. We will show the place to turn in your urine sample receptacle on the day of the preoperative examination.
・Pleaseallow enough time forall of your medical care finished on that day.
You need to wait for 1 to 2 hours to receive your blood testresult. If you plan to see our general medicine on the same day, it takes 4 to 5 hours for altogether to finish all of your medical care on the day of your preoperative examination.
④We will explain youin detail, at the admission reception, about your life in your patient room, things to bring to your room at the time of your hospital admission, the hospital facilities(coin washers and bathrooms) and the life of your attendant(s) at our hospital, after you finish all of your preoperative examination and after we officially decide your hospital admission.
＊You will visit our hospital at 10 o’clock on the day of your hospital admission.
⑤The out-of-pocket medical care cost for the operation can be very expensive for the pediatric patient without“free infant medical care program” of your local government office.We might help you treating it as “public health care program to disabled children,” so please consult with us. （If you are approved, your medical cost will be reduced.）