You are going home with a midline catheter. This small, soft tube has been placed in a vein in your upper arm. It’s often used when your doctor wants you to have I.V. (intravenous) fluids or medicines.

Your midline catheter is used to give medicine or fluids. This means that you may need to flush it. This keeps it from getting clogged or blocked.

IABP is a device that helps your heart pump better. It is used most often when your heart is not able to pump enough blood for your body.

During your child’s hospital stay, falling may be more likely. Nurses and other healthcare providers will do all they can to prevent a fall. You can do your part, too.

A catheter is a thin, soft tube. It is placed into a vein. The vein is most often in your arm.

Thymoma and thymic carcinoma are two types of cancer that start in the cells of the thymus. These types of cancer are rare.

Where the catheter enters your body, it is covered with a bandage (dressing). If you or a caregiver has been told to change the dressing, here are some instructions.

SCAD is an emergency condition. It occurs when a tear develops in the wall of one of the arteries that supplies blood to the heart muscle.

Phlebotomy is when blood is drawn from the body. Therapeutic phlebotomy is when blood is drawn to treat a disease.

Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is an enlarged heart.