Can You Wear Acrylic Nails During Surgery

I cant figure out what nail polish on my fingers has to do with an operation on my nose.

Can you wear acrylic nails during surgery. The reasoning behind a request is made to remove acrylic nails is to enable cyanosis to be detected by eyeballing the patients nail beds. Acrylic nails and polish during surgery. During surgery your oxygen levels will be monitored and one of the most common ways of doing this is using a probe placed on your finger.

Also makeup hair products and nail polish can be flammable and should not be worn when you are having surgery. So removing these things is completely based on you. Can I wear Nail Polish during labour.

Body piercings and jewelry including nose lip belly button or nipple rings need to be removed before you go into surgery. Before your operation you will be asked to remove all jewellery and body piercings. If you forget to take it off the surgery team can find another location on the body to monitor oxygen levels.

Im having sinus surgery on my nose but my doctor said to be sure not to wear nail polish during surgery. This study investigates the effect of unpolished acrylic nails on the measurement of oxygen saturation by pulse oximetry. Data were collected during a 3-month period.

The fact that she refused to remove them would have meant that she would have delayed the surgery allowing the doctor time. The only exception to this is made. Thirty women average age 32 years range 18 to 61 years were recruited at a high-volume nail salon in northwestern Pennsylvania.

Im too embarrassed to ask my doctor. Can I wear acrylic nails or nail polish into surgery. Thread Tools 10-26-2008 0204 PM 1 misskay87.