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This handout explains the 4 types of memory: long-term (remote), short-term (recent), immediate (working) and prospective (future remembering). It also gives strategies to help remembering when one's memory is impaired.

This handout explains Meniere's disease (MD), its symptoms, evaluation tests, medical management and prognosis, and surgical treatments such as endolymphatic sac surgery, vestibular nerve section, and labyrinthectomy. It provides contact telephone numbers at UWMC and support group information.

This handout gives instructions to stop taking medicines that contain metformin on the day of a procedure that uses iodine contrast material (radiology dye).

This handout describes a methacholine challenge test and how to prepare for it. This test is done to diagnose asthma.

This handout explains what happens during a micro-direct laryngoscopy, a procedure to examine the larynx (voice box) with a microscope. It includes self-care instructions to follow while recovering from the surgery.

This handout explains how to prepare for middle ear surgery, which is done to repair the eardrum (tympanic membrane) or small hearing bones (ossicles) in the middle ear. These may be repaired using either man-made or natural tissues. This surgery is done to restore hearing.

This handout, called a CareMap, shows what a patient may expect when scheduled for Middle Fossa (MCF) or Translabyrinthine (TL) procedure at University of Washington Medical Center. It covers how to get ready for the surgery, what to expect on the day of surgery and during the hospital stay, and self-care during recovery at home.