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This handout explains why it is important for people with diabetes to watch how much sodium (salt) they eat. It includes tips on foods you can eat instead of high-sodium options.

This handout gives step-by-step instructions to follow when using Golytely or Colyte to prepare for bowel surgery.

This handout explains what to do before your treadmill test. It includes risk factors that may affect your ability to take an exercise treadmill test.

This handout explains how to prepare for a heart catheterization procedure for patients at University of Washington Medical Center - Northwest Campus. Planned procedures include a left heart catheterization and angiogram, and a left and right heart catheterization and angiogram.

This handout explains how to prepare for a diagnostic test that uses radionuclide imaging at the Heart Institute at UWMC. It gives specific instructions for the day before and the day of the test, what medicines you may need to hold, and what to do if you have diabetes and usually take diabetes medicines.

This handout gives instructions on using MoviPrep, Neomycin, and Metronidazole when preparing for surgery. These medicines help clean your bowel.

This handout describes how to prepare the bowel for surgery, or clean out the colon, using 1-day Mg Citrate.

This handout is for patients who are at risk for falling after they leave the hospital. It gives tips for staying safe when standing up after lying down, moving and walking, taking medicine, going to the bathroom, and more.

This handout is included in the "Congenital Heart Conditions" notebook. Helpful for all UWMC patients, it tells how to read prescription labels and what to do when a refill is needed, whether using the UWMC pharmacy or an outside pharmacy. An illustration of a prescription label is included, with call-outs explaining the information shown.

This handout explains bladder retraining, which increases the size of the bladder and allows the patient to urinate less often. Basic steps in the process are described: avoiding foods that irritate the bladder irritants, drinking more water, and trying to wait 5 minutes before going to the bathroom when first getting the urge to urinate.

This handout explains how to take the drug temozolomide (brand name Temodar). This chemotherapy drug is used to treat some types of brain cancer.

This handout describes how to go up and down stairs safely using a crutch or cane. This handout is designed for patients recovering from total hip or knee joint replacement surgery.

This handout explains what human milk fortifiers (HMFs) are and how they help premature or sick babies grow. It describes how HMFs are added to pumped human milk to give extra nutrients babies may have missed by being born early. You’ll also learn how HMFs are safely used in hospitals, what to know about recent news stories, and how they can be part of a feeding plan that supports breastfeeding.

This handout is a quick guide for patients who have had weight loss surgery at University of Washington Medical Center. It explains how and when to drink liquids, which liquids to drink, and which ones to avoid.

This handout is for patients having a hydrogen/methane breath test using glucose. It gives step-by-step instructions to follow for how to prepare and what to expect on the day of the test.

This handout is for patients having a hydrogen/methane breath test using lactulose. It gives step-by-step instructions to follow starting 4 weeks before the test, and includes information about what foods to eat and when to stop taking certain supplements and medicines to prepare.

This handout explains high blood pressure during pregnancy. It covers preeclampsia risk factors, prevention, and treatment. It also describes ways to tell if your infant is healthy during pregnancy, during labor and delivery, and after the baby is born.