Incision Care: Chest
Your incision may be open to the air by the time you go home. But if you need to change your dressing, follow these steps.
Your incision may be open to the air by the time you go home. But if you need to change your dressing, follow these steps.
Catheter ablation destroys (ablates) an abnormal electrical pathway or groups of electrical cells that may be causing a heart rhythm problem (arrhythmia). Read on to learn what to expect before, during, and after the procedure.
In the hospital, some people need oxygen therapy if they are not breathing in enough oxygen on their own. Read on to learn more about supplemental oxygen.
Anything that affects your patient's comfort, safety, and well-being also affects your patient's overall health. This can include housing, transportation, money issues, access to food, and child care.
Anything that affects your comfort, safety, and well-being also affects your overall health. This can include housing, transportation, money issues, access to food, and child care.
ECMO provides life support care. The ECMO machine takes over the work of the heart, lungs, or both.
Reduction thyrochondroplasty is done to give a person a more female-looking neck. A surgeon removes some of the Adam’s apple.
You may not agree with the gender you were given at birth. You may instead feel like you are a different gender. If this mismatch between your own gender identity and that assigned at birth seriously upsets you, you may have gender dysphoria.
Male-to-female breast augmentation is done to give a person a more female-looking chest. A plastic surgeon increases breast size, often with implants.