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This handout is section 10 of the "Congenital Heart Conditions" notebook. It tells patients who are taking warfarin (Coumadin), a blood-thinning medicine, when to call the Anticoagulation Clinic.

This handout alerts patients about when to call their Anticoagulation Clinic. Included in the list are missed doses, changes in medicines or vitamin K intake, bleeding or bruising, fever or illness, and planned surgery or pregnancy.

This handout is a quick guide to use when you are concerned and wondering if you should call your baby's primary care provider (PCP).

This chapter of the Heart Transplant Manual explains symptoms to watch for and when to call the cardiac transplant team or 9-1-1.

This handout gives signs and symptoms during pregnancy that require a call to your perinatal health care provider. These include fever, pain, high pulse, and other symptoms.

Being pregnant affects you physically, mentally, and emotionally. It may require you to learn new skills. This handout explains why a healthy diet is important when you are expecting multiples (twins, triplets, or more).

This post-procedure discharge form can be filled out with information about procedure, site or wound care, pain management, and symptoms to report. Also provides blank spaces to fill in and contact information for UWMC and date and time of follow-up visit.

This brochure for women with high-risk pregnancies explains helpful services and service providers at the UW Medicine Maternal Fetal Medicine Clinics in Arlington and Yakima, Washington. It provides information about what a high-risk pregnancy is and what to expect at a clinic visit. It also includes maps, directions, and contact information for both clinics.

This handout is for patients who are being treated at University of Washington Medical Center for the COVID-19 coronavirus. It explains how nurses provide safe care, visitor policies, and more.

This handout explains many of the feelings you may have when you have lost a loved one. It offers support by helping you know that what you are going through is part of a natural grieving process. It lists feelings, physical symptoms, behaviors, social changes, spiritual concerns, and thought patterns that are affected when dealing with bereavement.

This booklet contains many tasty recipes to help add important protein and calcium to the diet. Protein helps build and repair body tissues, and helps the body fight infection. Calcium keeps bones and teeth strong, controls blood pressure, and keeps muscles working well.

This handout explains what to expect if a new mother is discharged from the hospital but her baby is still a patient. This document is a chapter in the workbook "Baby Care," authored by the Mother Baby Unit at University of Washington Medical Center.

This handout provides information about anesthesia or sedation used for pediatric radiation oncology patients. The pre-anesthesia visit, side effects, fasting, transport, the role of the parents, post-treatment activity and nutritional needs are covered, as well as when to call the doctor or 9-1-1.

This handout explains what antibiotics are, why they are used, and possible side effects.

This poster, for ICU patients and their families, gives a list of amenities patients and families may use during the hospital stay. Some of the items listed include sleep chair and linens for in-room use, a free parking pass for 1 vehicle after a 14-day stay, DVD player and DVDs, iPad, spiritual caregivers, interpreters, and more.

This handout describes what visitors and family members can expect while their loved one is having surgery at UWMC - Montlake campus. It includes a list of hospital resources that may be helpful, and a map showing the location of the surgery waiting rooms.

This handout describes what to expect and how to prepare for whipple surgery, also called a pancreaticoduodenectomy. In this surgery, the head of the pancreas is removed, along with part of the small bowel, part of the bile duct system, and part of the stomach.

This handout gives information about wearing white cotton gloves to protect the skin of the hands from irritants. Wearing these gloves may be advised for patients with dry skin, eczema, or allergic contact dermatitis. Included are resources for buying white cotton gloves.

This handout is Appendix E of the booklet "Caring for Yourself and Your New Baby." It explains whooping cough, why children are given vaccines to protect them, and when the vaccines should be given.

This handout is a chapter in the Spine Care Companion and reviews what a physiatrist is, and why patients may see one after spinal procedures.

This handout gives pre-procedure and post-procedure information for surgical removal (wide local excision) of skin melanoma or other lesions. It explains the excision process, what to do 2 weeks and 24 hours before the operation, and instructions to follow after surgery on precautions, self-care tips, wound care, showering, drains, pain management, pathology results, and returning to work.

Discusses the difference between fraternal and identical twins and concerns that arise in placental development. Identifies triplets as usually fraternal.

This brochure explains the free wireless (Wi-Fi) access provided to patients and visitors at University of Washington Medical Center and Harborview Medical Center. Instructions are included for finding the Patients and Visitors network for accessing the Internet.

This handout describes which women have the highest risk of alcohol abuse and alcoholism, how alcohol works on the body, medical problems women develop from drinking and how much drinking is safe.