Preparing for Hypospadias Surgery

• Any blood tests your doctor requests, and a urine culture if needed, are carried out.
• If there is a urinary tract infection, it is treated before surgery; repair is not performed with an infected urine.
• Tell your doctor about any medications, allergies, and previous anesthesia your child has had.
• If pre-operative testosterone treatment has been planned, it is started during this period.
• Any family history of a bleeding disorder must always be mentioned.

Fasting times follow the anesthesia team's instructions and vary by age; as a general rule, clear fluids can be given closer to the time of surgery, while solid food is stopped earlier.

An age-appropriate, brief, and honest explanation works best. Young children don't need details; a sentence like "the doctor is going to fix your penis, you'll be asleep, and your mother will be next to you when you wake up" is enough.

• A favorite toy or blanket
• Spare diapers, and loose, roomy clothing
• The surgical report and test results
• Any medications your child is taking

After registration and the anesthesia consultation, your child is taken into the operating room. In many centers, one parent can stay with the child until the moment they fall asleep.

• When and where will the catheter be removed?
• How long does the dressing need to stay intact?
• Which pain medicine, at what dose, and how often?
• When can bathing start?
• Under what circumstances should we call right away?
• When is the first follow-up visit?