How to prepare for a lower limb angioplasty.

Someone, I mean, there's nothing really to be prepared for physically, it's mentally. Of course, these procedures usually are done on the local anesthesia, which is good because it doesn't require the patient to stay in hospital for long, essentially also the risk of the anesthesia is extremely small. So the patient needs to prepare himself or herself to lay down on the table for a few hours, could be one hour, could be three, could be even more, in order to get the leg fixed. I mean, usually these procedures are good, because the patient can come in the morning, can have the procedure, usually they go home on the same day. Essentially, it's a very mainly invasive procedure, and it requires a little bit of local anesthesia. So a little bit of stinging for 20 to 30 seconds at the level of the groin. And once you have that, the patient usually doesn't feel a lot. of course if the intervention is more let's say complicated and of course the patient can be put under general anesthesia or spinal anesthesia but this in my practice at least is a minority of the patient let's say 10 to 20 percent. Most of them go for interventions in that performing on local anesthesia and it's very easy for a patient for the doctor to get the best results.