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This handout explains a procedure called carotid angioplasty and stenting for atherosclerosis. It includes how to prepare for the procedure, what to expect, and self-care at home.

This handout explains how to prepare and what to expect when scheduled for carotid endarterectomy surgery at a UW Medicine facility. It includes self-care at home during recovery, and when to call the doctor.

This handout describes how to prepare for carotid-subclavian transposition and what to expect afterward. This procedure may be done before aortic repair or before heart surgery. It helps make sure that there is enough blood flow to your body even if one of your subclavian arteries is covered during a future surgery. 

This handout provides step-by-step instructions for 2 hand and wrist exercises to help lessen symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome.

This handout explains follow-up care after endoscopic surgery to release carpal tunnel. Included are sections on wound care, pain management, activity restrictions, follow-up care, and expected results.

This handout gives tips for people with carpal tunnel syndrome to help them ease the tingling, numbness, and pain. It explains the reason for these symptoms, and lists activities to avoid and ways to use the hands and fingers to lessen the stress on the carpal tunnel area.

This handout describes 2 ablation procedures: radiofrequency and cryo-balloon ablation. These procedures are done to treat atrial fibrillation if other treatments are not working well.

Patients and Caregivers: This handout is to be paired with teaching from your nurse, who will review this with you. It explains how to care for your central line to prevent infection. For your safety and convenience, please do not use this handout as a stand-alone document. It is intended for use only with teaching from your nurse.

Clinicians: This resource is intended for direct patient education using teach back. Review each page of this handout with your patient, using the attached Answer Key as a reference. Do not provide this handout to patients without reviewing each page with them. 

This handout is for patients at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, WA. It explains how nurses care for your central line while you are in the hospital, and how you can help. A central line is a tube (catheter) that providers place in a large vein in your neck, chest, groin, or arm. A central line is also called a central venous catheter.

This handout explains a cerebral angiogram, a procedure that provides a detailed view of the blood vessels in the brain. It includes how to prepare and what to expect when having the procedure at the Neurosurgery department at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.

This handout explains a cervical epidural steroid injection. This procedure is done to help treat and diagnose pain.

This handout explains a cervical nerve block injection, which is done to diagnose and treat pain. It includes benefits, risks, what to expect, and how to prepare.

This handout, called a CareMap, shows what a patient may expect when scheduled for Cesarean deliery at University of Washington Medical Center. It summarizes how to get ready for the surgery, what to expect on the day of surgery and during the hospital stay, and self-care after discharge.

This handout for Plastic Surgery patients at Harborview Medical Center explains how to change a Xeroform dressing.

This handout is a section in the "Congenital Heart Conditions" notebook. Useful for all patients, it gives step-by-step instructions on how and when to take one's own blood pressure, as well as how to record the reading.

This handout provides a checklist of comfort measures you may want to use during labor.

This handout describes chemical perfusion treatment for patients with Meniere's disease, sensorineural hearing loss, autoimmune inner ear disease, and tinnitus. How the treatment works, the treatment methods, expected results, and possible side effects or risks are discussed.

This handout explains the chest X-ray exam, which is done to assess the lungs, heart, and chest wall. It includes how the exam works, how to prepare for it, what to expect, and how to get the results.

This handout describes chickenpox and its symptoms. It also explains how this disease can be spread and offers steps to prevent others from getting it.

This brochure explains the services offered by the Child Development Clinic at the Center on Human Development and Disability. The center serves children from birth to adolescence who may have developmental delays, learning problems, sensory/motor concerns, behavioral challenges, and problems with attention or impulsiveness, and autism.

This handout provides information on classes for expectant families offered at UWMC. Included are Childbirth Preparation Series, Labor and Birth Mini-Series, Expecting Multiples, Better Birth Refresher, Working with Labor Pain, Preventing Preterm Birth, Breastfeeding Basics, Newborn Care and Life with Baby, Newborn Care for Adoptive Families, Conscious Fathering, Babysafe with Infant CPR, and Sibling Preparation classes. These classes are offered in collaboration with Parent Trust for Washington State Children.

This handout explains the common responses that children of different ages have to serious illness and death. Typical developmental stages are given for birth to age 3, ages 4 to 7, ages 8 to 12, and ages 13 to 18.

This handout give important safety guidelines about bringing children who are not patients to University of Washington Medical Center.

This brochure details the causes of a blocked airway and offers tips to prevent choking. The steps for choking rescue techniques, the Heimlich maneuver, are given for a conscious adult, for an unconscious adult, and for doing it on yourself.

This handout gives tips on how to choose a primary care provider for a newborn, with special attention to the needs of a NICU baby.