Plastic surgery recovery · Bogota
Plastic Surgery Recovery in Bogota
Bogota is home to Latin America’s top plastic surgeons. The outcome you flew for depends on the first ten days of recovery: wound care, garment compliance, lymphatic drainage, and rest.
We place English-fluent, Colombian-licensed registered nurses with plastic surgery patients across Bogotá, with care matched to the specific procedure rather than a generic post-operative routine.
Why it matters
Why procedure-specific care matters
“Plastic surgery recovery” is not one thing. A rhinoplasty patient needs head elevation and nasal care. A facelift patient needs drain management and close watching for bleeding under the skin. A breast surgery patient needs garment and drain management with strict arm-movement limits. A body contouring patient needs compression, drains and lymphatic drainage coordination. The nursing skill is the same; the protocol is not.
Across all of them, the first 72 hours carry the most risk — that is when bleeding, infection and fluid problems declare themselves, and when a patient’s own judgement is least reliable because they are swollen, medicated and uncomfortable.
What we handle
What our nurses handle
- Procedure-specific wound care and dressing changes
- Compression garment fitting and adjustment as swelling changes
- Drain measurement and emptying, with output recorded for your surgeon
- Vital-sign monitoring and early complication detection
- Medication and antibiotic schedule management, including prescribed injections
- Positioning, mobility and transfer assistance
- Lymphatic drainage massage scheduling where your surgeon has ordered it
- Surgeon coordination in Spanish, reported back to you in English
By procedure
By procedure
Facelift and neck lift
Dressings and any drains are checked and recorded, and the priority is watching for bleeding or fluid collecting under the skin. Rapidly increasing swelling on one side, tightness, escalating pain, or skin colour change are reasons to contact your surgeon immediately rather than at the next visit. Sleeping with the head elevated, and avoiding movements that strain the neck, are usually part of the instructions.
Rhinoplasty
Care centres on head elevation, managing swelling and bruising, keeping the nasal area protected, and following your surgeon’s instructions on cleaning and any splint or packing. Patients routinely underestimate how much of this recovery is about not doing things — bending, lifting, blowing the nose — for longer than feels necessary.
Breast augmentation, reduction and lift
Garment or support bra management, drain care where drains are present, wound checks, and keeping to your surgeon’s limits on arm movement and lifting. Getting dressed and washing are genuinely difficult in the first days, and are where a nurse’s practical help matters as much as the clinical monitoring.
Liposuction and body contouring
Compression is the centre of this recovery, alongside drain output monitoring, wound checks, and lymphatic drainage massage on your surgeon’s schedule. Compression worn loosely or inconsistently is one of the most common self-inflicted setbacks.
BBL
Buttock fat transfer has its own strict positioning protocol and its own timeline. See BBL recovery nursing, and for abdominoplasty see tummy tuck recovery nursing.
Safety
Warning signs we watch for
Across procedures: fever, pain that escalates rather than settles, redness spreading from an incision, fluid or discharge from a wound, a rapid change in swelling — particularly on one side only — breathlessness, chest pain, or calf pain and swelling. Any of these should go to your surgeon immediately. Your nurse takes vital signs at every visit specifically so that these are caught as measurements rather than as feelings.
This page is general information about how plastic surgery recovery is usually managed. Your surgeon’s discharge instructions always take precedence.
Your schedule
How care is usually staged
Daily visits through the first week, tapering to every-other-day and then on-call as you recover. Solo travellers, and anyone with drains or a procedure with strict positioning rules, are better served by overnight presence for the first few nights. Your surgeon’s discharge instructions set the plan; we build the schedule around them and adjust as you are cleared for less supervision.
Pricing
What it costs
Day visits $60, overnight nurse $120 a night, 24/7 live-in $180 a day, in USD. A common plastic surgery booking is a week of daily visits at $420, or overnight care for the first nights plus daily visits at around $900. See full pricing.
Do you handle more than one procedure at once?
Yes — combined procedures are common, and the care plan is built around whichever protocol is most restrictive.
Can a nurse come to my recovery house?
Yes. Hotels, apartments, Airbnbs and recovery houses anywhere in Bogotá.
Will my nurse speak to my surgeon directly?
Yes, in Spanish, with written reports sent on request.
How soon before my surgery should I book?
As early as you can. Booking before you fly means the nurse is at the clinic when you are discharged rather than arranged in a hurry afterwards.
Other recovery services
Recovering from something else, or want to see what it costs?
Get in touch
Request a quote
Tell us about your trip and procedure. We respond within 24 hours with a clear plan and price — no obligation.
Prefer to talk? WhatsApp us at +57 322 216 8138 or email info@angelescuidadores.com.