Discharge Instructions: Caring for Your Apheresis Catheter
At home, you need to take good care of your catheter. A catheter has a high risk of infection. You must take extra care to protect it from germs.
At home, you need to take good care of your catheter. A catheter has a high risk of infection. You must take extra care to protect it from germs.
For a bone marrow transplant, the doctor takes healthy bone marrow from a donor and gives it to a recipient where it can begin to grow and make healthy blood cells.
Some people get a fever in the hours after transfusion. This usually isn’t serious but if you have other symptoms along with it, it may be more serious.
You’ve recently had a blood transfusion. A blood transfusion may be done when you have lost blood because of an injury or during surgery. It can also be done because of diseases or conditions that affect the blood.
This condition causes your child to have noisy breathing. It can also sometimes cause breathing problems. But it often goes away over time.
A portal vein thrombosis is a blood clot in the portal vein. Learn more about this condition, including cause, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.
Core decompression of the hip is a type of surgery. Your healthcare provider may advise this surgery if you have osteonecrosis.
An endoleak is a complication that can occur after having an endovascular aneurysm repair.
Eclampsia is a condition that causes seizures in pregnancy. But it can also cause them during or after childbirth.
IV infiltration is when some of the fluid leaks out under the skin where the IV tube has been put into your vein. You may have swelling, pain, burning in the IV area. This is a common problem.