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This handout explains how to prepare the bowel for spinal surgery.

Discusses training the bowels for regular emptying by following a daily routine including activity, diet, stool softeners, bulk enhancers, laxatives, and enemas and avoiding certain medications. Lists steps for self-administering a suppository. Gives warning signs for medical attention.

This handout explains brachytherapy and drug-coated balloon therapy. It includes how doctors diagnose and evaluate in-stent restinosis at University of Washington Medical Center.

This handout explains a DaTscan: how it works, how to prepare, how the scan is done, and how to get your results.

This handout offers information for families and loved ones of patients. It explains how doctors determine that a person is dead based on their brain function.

This handout explains a brain perfusion scan, used to detect altered blood flow of the brain. It includes how to prepare for the scan, how the scan works, how it is done, what the patient may feel during the scan, and how to get the results.

This handout explains embolization for a brain tumor. Embolization is a procedure that blocks or reduces blood flow to cancer cells. The handout includes how to prepare for the procedure at Harborview Medical Center, what to expect during the procedure, and self-care at home afterward.

This handout is for brain tumor patients. It tells how a rehabilitation program can help their recovery, and how physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, neuropsychology, rehab psychology, and rehab counseling may be used.

This handout explains the brainstem auditory evoked potential (BAEP) test, which measures how well sound travels from the ear to the brain and how the brain, especially the brainstem, responds to sound.

This handout describes how to prepare for a branched thoracic endovascular aortic repair (B-TEVAR) and what to expect afterward. This surgery is done to repair a thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm (TAAA). A TAAA is a bulge (aneurysm) in part of the aorta that goes from your chest to your belly. 

This handout explains the early warning signs of breast and ovarian cancer. It also covers screening and detection and lists related resources.

This handout explains the words on breast biopsy results, such as "benign," "increased risk," and "malignant." It lists the types of conditions that fall into each of these result categories. It also includes a brief overview of the types of non-invasive and invasive breast cancer.

This handout explains breast care after the loss of a baby. Included are reassurances about the grieving process, suggestions to help with breast engorgement, signs that require a call to the doctor, quotes from other bereaved mothers, and a list of helpful resources.

This handout explains how to monitor your breast health after your treatment for breast cancer. Breast imaging surveillance uses mammography and other imaging to help your doctors find any second cancer early. Finding second breast cancer early can help increase survival.

This form is included in the manual "Breastfeeding Your Hospitalized Baby." It is to be used by breastfeeding mothers to keep track of how often and how much milk they pump over a 24-hour period.

This handout explains the most common procedures that are used at University of Washington Medical Center (UWMC) to reconstruct a breast after a mastectomy. Included are expected timelines, benefits and drawbacks, and illustrations showing the different types of surgery.

This handout explains breast reduction (mastopexy) surgery. It includes how to prepare for the operation and what to expect afterward. It also gives precautions and self-care instructions about the incision, wound care, drains, showering, going home, activity level, healing process, pain management and return to work.

This handout, called a CareMap, shows what a patient may expect when scheduled for breast surgery at University of Washington Medical Center. Three different care plans are detailed, depending on the procedures that will be done -- for patients having wire localization only, for patients having lymph mapping only, and for patients having both procedures -- before their breast surgery. Check-in locations and other important processes are included.

This handout explains why breast wraps are used after implant surgery. It includes a list of websites that offer breast wraps for sale.

This handout explains how to manage breastfeeding if having surgery. It discusses how to minimize interruption of breastfeeding, about medicines and anesthesia, and what to do on the day of surgery.

This handout reviews breastfeeding basics, in a format that allows the mother to both review the information and write down responses to questions.

This guide, authored by Texas WIC, has been modifed for use at UW Medical Center. Contents include breastfeeding tips, what happens during baby's first hour, hand expression of colostrum, feeding positions, and more.

This document includes the covers and table of contents for the workbook "Breastfeeding: In the hospital and at home."

This document contains all chapters of the workbook "Breastfeeding." Chapters include Your Breastfeeding Plan of Care, Attaching Your Baby to Your Breast, Sore Nipples, Comfort Measures for Breast Engorgement, Expressing and Storing Breast Milk, How Is Breastfeeding Going?, Is This Safe to Take While I'm Breastfeeding?, and Breastfeeding Resources. Individual chapters are also found by title on Health Online.