Anyone know about isolating before surgery?

[Lemons1571]

Son has a covid test booked, then an operation scheduled three days later. Anyone know if he can go to school in the intervening days or does he have to isolate? Hospital secretary didn’t know.

The advice last year used to be isolate for 3 or 14 days depending on the op, but I can’t find any recent information on whether this has changed.

@trevthecat

Did the waiting list people not tell you? My son has an op next week and has to isolate and have a covid test. It was all explained to us over the phone and on the letter we got through

No, the secretary confirmed the surgery date, but didn’t know what had to be done with child isolating.

The pre op is on the same day as the covid test, 3 days before surgery. So we don’t know anything much til then!

@Sunshinev

I recently went to hospital for a procedure and was told myself and whole family had to isolate from after the covid swab until I was admitted if I hadn't to would have seemed pointless as you could pick it up between the swab and the admission if you go out and about

Presumably you wouldn’t be infectious though?

I was told 3 days for my operation 2 weeks ago.

I had an op in March
Covid test 48hrs before, isolating between then and the op.

My daughter has surgery in June and our paperwork says she'll be booked for a covid test and will then need to self isolate until her operation.

My family member’s paperwork said whole household had to isolate for 14 days pre op, as well as pcr test 3 days prior.

@Chewbecca

My family member’s paperwork said whole household had to isolate for 14 days pre op, as well as pcr test 3 days prior.

Was this recent? There must be loads of households that, with the best of intentions, couldn’t just stop everything for 2 weeks.

This week! PCR today, op this Wednesday.

We've been told only the child having the op and the parent who will be attending hospital with them need to have a Covid test and isolate for the 3 days before, not the rest of the household. They did say the rest of the household should be cautious during this time, but with an elder child at school and one of the parents working around the general public it's not really possible without isolating..

I’m NHS Scotland, our patients used to isolate 10 days before but now it’s 72hrs for an elective procedure (patients admitted as an emergency are considered “amber” as we dont know if they have isolated for 10 days prior) some hospitals outwith my health board have no protocols at all though