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This handout explains how to care for your chest tube and either a Pneumostat or Express Mini 500 device.

This handout explains how to care for a drain at home after surgery. Drain care instructions for a Jackson Pratt drain (JP drain) and a Blake drain are included.

This brochure covers instructions for patients who have received a subcutaneous implantable cardiac defibrillator (ICD), including guidelines to follow during recovery, activity restrictions, special long-term precautions, when to call the doctor, and when to call 911.

This handout gives instructions for incision care after having surgery in the Burn/Plastic Surgery Clinic at Harborview Medical Center.

This handout provides information for patients who have just received an implanted internal loop recorder (ILR) to monitor their heart function. It covers wound care, special travel precautions, and what to do if having an MRI or other medical procedure that erases the memory of the ILR.

This handout for patients at the Center for Reconstructive Surgery explains why they will have four drains after surgery and how to care for them. It includes four record blanks for keeping track of the amount of drainage from each drain.

When you go home, you will have JP (Jackson-Pratt) drains in place. This handout explains how to care for your drains at home until they are ready to be removed.

This handout provides information for patients that is useful right after their pacemaker is put in place, and later, as their life returns to normal. Included are sections on wound care, activity restrictions, follow-up appointments, special long-term precautions (travel, magnetic fields, use of cell phones and other electronic devices, dental work, etc.), and contact information for four pacemaker manufacturers.

This handout explains how to take care of dentures. Care tips for oral health are included.

This handout offers support for women who have lost their baby. Included is information about physical changes and emotional concerns, as well as warning signs for calling the doctor or clinic.

This document is the entire contents of the birth book "Caring for Yourself and Your New Baby." The book covers postpartum issues such as constipation, jaundice, breastfeeding, baby blues, and more.

This handout explains a procedure called carotid angioplasty and stenting for atherosclerosis. It includes how to prepare for the procedure, what to expect, and self-care at home.

This handout explains how to prepare and what to expect when scheduled for carotid endarterectomy surgery at a UW Medicine facility. It includes self-care at home during recovery, and when to call the doctor.

This handout describes how to prepare for carotid-subclavian transposition and what to expect afterward. This procedure may be done before aortic repair or before heart surgery. It helps make sure that there is enough blood flow to your body even if one of your subclavian arteries is covered during a future surgery. 

This handout provides step-by-step instructions for 2 hand and wrist exercises to help lessen symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome.

This handout explains follow-up care after endoscopic surgery to release carpal tunnel. Included are sections on wound care, pain management, activity restrictions, follow-up care, and expected results.

This handout gives tips for people with carpal tunnel syndrome to help them ease the tingling, numbness, and pain. It explains the reason for these symptoms, and lists activities to avoid and ways to use the hands and fingers to lessen the stress on the carpal tunnel area.

This handout describes 2 ablation procedures: radiofrequency and cryo-balloon ablation. These procedures are done to treat atrial fibrillation if other treatments are not working well.

Patients and Caregivers: This handout is to be paired with teaching from your nurse, who will review this with you. It explains how to care for your central line to prevent infection. For your safety and convenience, please do not use this handout as a stand-alone document. It is intended for use only with teaching from your nurse.

Clinicians: This resource is intended for direct patient education using teach back. Review each page of this handout with your patient, using the attached Answer Key as a reference. Do not provide this handout to patients without reviewing each page with them. 

This handout is for patients at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, WA. It explains how nurses care for your central line while you are in the hospital, and how you can help. A central line is a tube (catheter) that providers place in a large vein in your neck, chest, groin, or arm. A central line is also called a central venous catheter.

This handout explains a cerebral angiogram, a procedure that provides a detailed view of the blood vessels in the brain. It includes how to prepare and what to expect when having the procedure at the Neurosurgery department at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.

This handout explains a cervical epidural steroid injection. This procedure is done to help treat and diagnose pain.

This handout explains a cervical nerve block injection, which is done to diagnose and treat pain. It includes benefits, risks, what to expect, and how to prepare.

This handout, called a CareMap, shows what a patient may expect when scheduled for Cesarean deliery at University of Washington Medical Center. It summarizes how to get ready for the surgery, what to expect on the day of surgery and during the hospital stay, and self-care after discharge.

This handout for Plastic Surgery patients at Harborview Medical Center explains how to change a Xeroform dressing.