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This handout explains the stretches and exercises to do after your lumpectomy. These stretches and exercises help:

• Bring your arm movement (range of motion) back to normal
• Improve your posture
• Loosen up any tight areas across your chest and armpit

This handout explains the stretches and exercises to do after your mastectomy. These stretches and exercises help:

• Bring your arm movement (range of motion) back to normal
• Improve your posture
• Loosen up tight areas across your chest and armpit

This handout, called a CareMap, shows what a patient may expect when admitted to a UW Medicine hospital after coming to the Emergency Department with stroke symptoms. It includes what happens during the hospital stay, and how to prepare for discharge.

This handout is for patients who have had a stroke, a stroke-related condition, or are at risk for stroke. It can help answer some of the most common questions about stroke diagnosis, personal stroke risk factors, a treatment plan to prevent future strokes, and recommendations for follow-up visits for care and rehabilitation.

This handout explains what sudden sensorineural hearing loss is. It also gives information about its causes, symptoms, how it is diagnosed, and treatments.

This handout is for women who received the drug sugammadex during surgery. It warns that hormone-based birth control methods such as pills, patches, hormonal IUDs, rings, injections, and implants may not work for 1 week after receiving sugammadex.

This handout explains the 2 types of sunscreens and how they work. It also tells how to use them so they are the most effective. SPF (sunburn protection factor) is explained.

This document is part of the "Rehab and Beyond" manual. It describes the kinds of support needed during the rehabilitation process, including patient advocates and their roles, legal advocates, long-term care advocates, and caregivers/attendants.

This handout explains ways to support the care partners of people living with memory loss or dementia. This document is a chapter in the handbook "Living with Memory Loss," written by staff at the Memory and Brain Wellness Center in Seattle, WA.

This handout explains the support services available to patients and families at the Alvord Brain Tumor Center. It gives contact information for in-person support groups, phone and online support, peer support mentoring programs, and counseling services.

This handout explains the support services available to cancer patients and their families. It gives contact information for in-person support groups, phone and online support, peer support mentoring programs, and counseling services.

This handout describes the 10 steps to follow to use a suprapubic catheter.

This handout describes a type of abnormal heart rhythm called supraventricular tachycardia (SVT). It explains how SVT is diagnosed and treated, and includes details of what occurs during catheter ablation to treat SVT.

This handout is for patients who are having their surgery at the outpatient surgery center at UWMC - Northwest campus. It gives basic instructions to follow before and on the day of surgery.

This handout gives steps to take when preparing for spine fusion and spine deformity surgery.

This handout discusses issues to think about when considering rsurgery to lower your risk of breast cancer. This is called a risk-reducing mastectomy.

This handout discusses issues to think about when considering surgery to lower your risk of ovarian cancer. This is called risk-reducing oophorectomy.

This handout explains compression garments, which are worn after surgery to help keep swelling down.

This handout, written for people with diabetes, gives information about many common sweeteners and how they may be used in a meal plan.

This handout describes Symlin, a synthetic (man-made) hormone that works with insulin to control how quickly glucose enters the blood after meals. Side effects, drug interactions, and storage information are included.

This handout explains sympathetic nerve block, a procedure to find out if the sympathetic nervous system plays a role in sending pain signals to the brain, and if stopping the pain signals on a short-term basis can ease pain. Includes an explanation of the procedure, how to prepare, what results to expect, instructions for medicines, activities, side effects, filling out a pain diary, and follow-up care.

This appendix to the Heart Transplant Manual explains the medicine tacrolimus, prescribed for heart transplant patients.

This booklet explains what pressure sores are, the stages of pressure sores and how to care for them. It also covers complications and signs of trouble to watch out for.

This handout for women who want to have children explains why taking good care of your teeth and gums may help prevent preterm birth. Sections include "Dental Checkups," "Medicines," "Brushing and Flossing Tips," "More Tips for Healthy Teeth and Gums," and "Resources for Dental Care." This document is a chapter in the birth book "Pregnancy and Giving Birth." It is also included in the packets "Preventing Another Preterm Birth" and "Coping with Grief," part of the Wait One Year Program.

This handout talks about self-care for the new mother after giving birth. It addresses body changes, nutrition, sexuality, and family planning. This document is part of the workbook "Your Care After Giving Birth."