"Nothing to eat or drink after midnight" is easy to say and hard to live through — especially with an afternoon procedure slot, a bowel prep the night before, or a morning that starts dehydrated and anxious. Apex Regen Wellness provides physician-guided, nurse-administered IV hydration for people fasting before imaging and procedures — always coordinated around your ordering provider's instructions, never in place of them. Mobile to your home across Somerset, Union, Essex, Bergen, Middlesex and Hudson counties in New Jersey.
Procedure Prep Hydration
Fluids and balanced electrolytes only. No vitamins, no additives. This is intentional: the day before a scan, a scope, or bloodwork is not the day to introduce anything that could interact with labs or imaging. The most conservative formulation we offer, for the situation that demands it.
Post-Procedure Recovery
Once your procedure is complete and you're discharged, the full foundation: 1,000 mL of fluids with electrolytes, magnesium, B-Complex with B1, B12, and vitamin C to restore what the prep and the fast took out.
First Things First: Your Care Team's Instructions Come First
Pre-procedure fasting isn't a wellness choice — it's a medical order, and different procedures have different rules. Before we schedule any pre-procedure infusion, we ask you to confirm with your ordering physician or imaging center that IV hydration is acceptable under your specific fasting instructions. Many fasting orders restrict only oral intake, and IV fluids are routinely given to fasting patients in hospitals — but your care team's instructions govern, and when they say otherwise, so do we. Our intake process documents this confirmation for every pre-procedure booking.
When Pre-Procedure Hydration Helps Most
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Colonoscopy prep — the single most common booking on this page. Bowel prep pulls significant fluid and electrolytes from the body; an infusion after your prep is complete (timed per your GI's instructions) can make the morning of your procedure far more comfortable, and post-procedure recovery is available the same day once you're cleared to leave.
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Afternoon procedure slots — an early-morning fast is one thing; fasting until a 2pm slot is another. Where your instructions permit, a morning infusion bridges the gap.
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Abdominal ultrasound and fasting labs — food fasts where hydration status still matters for comfort.
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CT and MRI — where contrast is involved, being well-hydrated is often specifically encouraged; confirm with your imaging center.
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Post-procedure recovery — the lowest-friction option of all: rehydration after your procedure is done and you've been discharged, when the fasting orders no longer apply.
What We Always Confirm at Intake
Every pre-procedure booking goes through screening under our Medical Director's oversight, and for this service we specifically confirm: what procedure you're having and when, your care team's exact fasting instructions, that those instructions permit IV hydration, and any conditions — kidney, heart, diabetes — that your ordering provider should weigh in on. Special note for PET scans: these are glucose-sensitive studies with strict prep rules. Our drips contain no dextrose, but PET prep instructions vary enough that we require your imaging center's explicit okay before scheduling anything ahead of one.
Who Books Pre-Procedure Hydration
Colonoscopy patients dreading the prep more than the procedure, people with afternoon surgical or imaging slots, anxious patients who know they do badly when depleted, older adults whose families want the fast to be safer and more comfortable, and anyone whose care team has told them to "arrive well-hydrated" for a contrast study and isn't sure how to do that while fasting. Booking on behalf of a parent is common here — one mobile visit, the evening before or the morning of, per their instructions.
Fasting Before Surgery
Surgery is different from imaging, and we treat it differently.
Before an operation, your fasting instructions come from your anesthesiologist, not just your surgeon. Anesthesia has its own rules about what can go in before a procedure and when, and they exist for a specific reason: what is in your system when you go under affects your airway risk. We do not schedule pre-surgical hydration on the strength of a surgeon's okay alone. If your anesthesiologist or pre-admission testing nurse tells you in writing that IV hydration is acceptable within your fasting window, bring that to intake and we will work with it. Without it, the answer is no, and we would rather lose the booking than get that wrong.
After surgery is a different situation entirely. Once you are discharged and your care team has cleared you to eat and drink, the fasting orders no longer apply, and rehydration is straightforward. Our Post-Procedure Recovery drip is available at home the same day or in the days that follow, which matters when getting back out to a clinic is the last thing you want to do.
If you are recovering from an orthopedic or soft-tissue procedure and want something more than fluids, talk to us at intake. We are expanding what we offer for surgical recovery and can tell you what is available.
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