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Consultant Dr Martin Ashley from the Manchester Dental Hospital and part of the iCOUGH UK team explains the steps to optimise oral healthcare in preparation for major surgery. This will help prevent lung complications after surgery as he explains.

Here we explain how to train your chest using an incentive spirometry in preparation for your surgery. Incentive spirometry is one of the key elements of I COUGH UK which aims to improve your recovery from major surgery and reduce your risk of chest complications.

EPIDURAL I COUGH UK resources I COUGH UK is a joint collaboration between Central Manchester Foundation Trust and the Boston Medical Centre, USA

After your surgery has finished. You will be taken to the recovery area where you will be monitored by one of the recovery staff. After a period of time you will then go the High Dependency area or the ward depending upon the type of surgery you will have had.

Here we explain about the Anaesthetic room where patients come to undergo anaesthesia and then are moved into theatre to have their surgery.

Cardiopulmonary Exercise testing is used to help assess a patient's fitness for surgery.