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This handout describes different types of fats and offers tips to help people with diabetes make food choices that promote a healthy heart. It provides information and sources about different types of fats including monounsaturated, polyunsaturated, omega-3, saturated, and hydrogenated fats. 

This handout reviews the guidelines for living a heart-healthy lifestyle, as provided by the American Heart Association. Included are tips on diet, exercise, emphasizing "good" fats, and limiting sodium and sugar intake.

This handout explains heart screening appointments at the Sports Medicine Center at Husky Stadium at the University of Washington.

This handout, called a CareMap, shows the sources and causes of pain a patient may expect during their hospital stay after having heart surgery. It includes solutions that may be used to control pain, and lists functional goals after surgery and at home.

This handout explains follow-up instructions for patients who have had heart surgery at UW Medical Center in Seattle, WA. It tells about how to schedule a follow-up visit and signs and symptoms that require a call to the cardiac surgeon.

This handout is a print-out of the slides used in an orientation class for prospective heart transplant recipients at University of Washington Medical Center. It gives basic information about the how social work services can help the patient and family. Sections of the slideshow include: Role of Your Social Worker, Role of Your Caregiver, and Support Required After Your Transplant.

This handout, called a CareMap, shows what a heart transplant may expect before, during, and after their hospital stay for transplant surgery.

This document is the cover, table of contents, and introduction to UWMC's Heart Transplant Manual. Individual chapters listed in the table of contents are available as stand-alone titles on Health Online.

This handout is a print-out of the slides used in an orientation class for prospective heart transplant recipients at University of Washington Medical Center. Sections of the slideshow include: Your Transplant Evaluation, Transplant Listing, Heart Transplant Surgery, Recovery After Surgery, Rejection, and Self-Care Tips.

This handout offers diet and other tips to relieve the symptoms of heartburn.

This document is part of the "Rehab and Beyond" manual. It covers Seattle-area community resources, independent and supported living options, modifying your home for safety, state and federal requirements for becoming an employer, online guides for hiring and managing assistants, background checks, financial support through COPES, recreation and entertainment, clothing, and adaptive products. It also contains samples of a Discharge Checklist, a “Help Wanted” Ad for a Caregiver, a Caregiver Application, a Weekly Caregiver Checklist, and a Daily Routine List.

This handout is for patients of UWMC's 8-North Rehabiliitation unit and their families. It explains why hospital patients have a greater risk of falling, and tells how staff work with patients to help keep them safe.

This handout explains why your nurses will check your skin while you are in the hospital, and what you can do to help your skin stay healthy.

This handout explains the importance of helping a preterm baby calm, and ways to do this. Suggestions include carefully timing interactions, watching for the baby's stress cues, using "positive touch," and lessening stressors in the environment.

This handout explains how the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) creates womb-like conditions to help a preterm baby grow and develop. It includes sections on temperature, positioning, pressure and containment, vision and hearing, swallowing and digestion, and bonding with mom.

This handout explains what a hemangioma scan is, how it works, what to expect, and how to get your results.

This handout explains what to expect, how to prepare, and how to plan for recovery from surgery to remove hemorrhoids, also called a hemorrhoidectomy.

This handout explains the hepatitis B virus, and why newborn babies are given a vaccine against the virus. This document is a chapter in the workbook "Baby Care," authored by the Mother Baby Unit at University of Washington Medical Center.

This handout answers common questions about hepatitis C, and what it means to receive a heart from a donor who has tested positive for the virus.

This handout answers common questions about hepatitis C, and what it means to receive a lung from a donor who has tested positive for the virus.

This handout explains a hepatobiliary scan, a procedure used to evaluate problems in the liver and gallbladder. 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 is for patients who take warfarin (Coumadin). It explains quality, safety, and effectiveness issues related to the use of herbal products. It includes warning signs for stroke and signs and symptoms of bleeding problems.

This handout gives helpful information about foods and herbs called galactogogues, which can help increase a mother's supply of breast milk.

This booklet explains hernia repair (herniorraphy) and the two types of surgery: laparoscopic repair and open repair. It discusses pre-procedure activities, medicine and driving restrictions, and activities the day before. It also includes tips to speed recovery, incision care, pain management, swelling, activity restriction, and going home.