Why was my sister told to remove her nail varnish before going for surgery?

She had nail varnish on her toe nails which the nurse made her remove before going for surgery - why?Why was my sister told to remove her nail varnish before going for surgery?
because we use a device called a pulse oximeter that reads the amount of oxygen in the blood of the extremities (fingers or toes or ear lobe) - it is like a peg onto one of these spots - it cannot read through nail varnish. Sometimes due to the positioning of the person in operating room it is necessary to use the toes rather than the fingers. It is a way of letting the anaesthetist know that the patient is being well oxygenated and the breathing tube and machine are working properly.Why was my sister told to remove her nail varnish before going for surgery?
in case the nail varnish could flake off and get into where ever shes having surgery the have to be so careful
because they monitor your finger / nail color while you are under anestesia and have to be able to see the natural color.
Apparently the nurses, drs, surgeon look at your nails to see the blood flow is OK while your 'under' during the operation and this obviously can't be seen if the nails have varnish on them (I asked the same before surgery last year).
It's something about how the doctors need to check peoples' nails regularly to make blood is pumping regularly I think. They want to make sure the skin under the nail is pink.





If someone is wearing bright red nailpolish, and their fingers go blue, that could be a problem








will be used to accurately monitor your oxygen level during surgery.
they want to keep the surgery as sterile as possible maybe? esp. if it was surgery on her foot.
maybe if affects sumthing
coz oxygen saturation levels cant be read over nail polish so they cannot determine how much oxygen is circulating in ur blood, which is very important because it determines whether u are breathing in enough oxygen
Because they check the colour of your nails to work out if you are short on oxygen.
Because they look at the colour of the nails when you are knocked out - something to do with the vital signs or something like that - when you have had surgery your mouth and nails are a bluish colour and they need to make sure everything is right when you are asleep and when you come round
because it clashed with the turqoise night gowns.
Was it toenail surgery? Maybe she should have eaten more cotton candy and then she would not have needed to have surgery in the first place.
I'm not positive, but I think that either it blocks an x-ray view somehow or messes with them checking capillary refill.
Maybe the surgeon didn't like the colour.
i had to take mine off as well as m.u before an op to take my wisdom teeth out and its cos they like to keep evrything sterile.