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Thinking About Hysterectomy
Before advising a hysterectomy, your healthcare provider will evaluate your health problem. You and your healthcare provider will go over the results of your exams and tests. Together, you can discuss your choices and make a treatment plan.
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Caring for Yourself After Hysterectomy
After you recover from your hysterectomy, you may feel better than you have in a long time. An active, healthy lifestyle, and regular medical care can help you continue to feel good.
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Labor and Childbirth: Right After Birth
After childbirth, most women shake and get chills. This is over quickly. Your temperature and blood pressure are watched until they are stable. The baby's umbilical cord is clamped and cut, usually after a beneficial delay of 30 to 60 seconds after birth.
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Discharge Instructions: Changing Your Ostomy Pouch
Your care team showed you how to change your pouch in the hospital after your surgery. This sheet helps you remember the steps you need to follow to change your pouch.
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Discharge Instructions: Flushing Your Central Venous Catheter
You are going home with a central line in place. This line carries medicine, fluids, or nutrition into your body. To keep the line clean and working well, it must be flushed regularly. Here's what you need to know.
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Discharge Instructions: Caring for Your Central Line
You are going home with a central line. This is a tube put in a vein that leads to your heart. It provides medicine during your treatment. Because a central line has a high infection risk, you must take extra care. This sheet will help you remember what to do at home.
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Discharge Instructions: Checking for Ketones
Learn about how to test for ketones in your blood or urine. The body needs glucose for energy. If it doesn't get the glucose it needs, it starts burning fat. This makes ketones. They can build up in the body and cause a dangerous condition called ketoacidosis.
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Discharge Instructions: Changing the Dressing on Your Central Line
Since a central line provides a direct path into your bloodstream, there is a high risk of infection when you change the dressing. Follow these step-by-step instructions to do this safely.
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Discharge Instructions: Having a Clear Liquid Diet
A clear liquid diet may be prescribed before or after certain surgeries or tests. This sheet can get you started.
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