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This handout is a chapter in the Lung Transplant Recipient Handbook. It gives important information to help lung transplant patients stay healthy as they get back into their life.

This handout describes choices to make during pregnancy to stay healthy. These include wearing a seat belt when riding in a car, taking care of your teeth, and getting good exercise. It explains why it is important to avoid alcohol, smoking, douching, hot tubs, certain medicines and drugs, and contact with rodents. This document is a chapter in the birth book "Pregnancy and Giving Birth.

This handout explains why it is important that your body is well nourished and well hydrated before a surgery or other procedure. It gives specific instructions on what to eat and drink and when.

This handout for heart transplant recipients explains how to prepare and what to expect from a heart biopsy at University of Washington Medical Center. A heart biopsy is a test to diagnose rejection of a transplanted heart.

This handout describes the heart catheterization procedure. It explains interventions (treatments) that may be done as a result, such as percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA), stents, directional coronary atherectomy, and percutanious trasluminal rotational atherectomy (PTRA).

This detailed manual describes the structure and function of the heart, heart disease risk factors and tips for lowering them, and many other aspects of heart disease.

This weight log provides instructions and a form for patients to keep track of their daily weight, blood pressure, and other symptoms.

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.