Estos son los pasos para cambiar un vendaje quirúrgico de la herida.
Con este video aprenderás lo que es el consentimiento informado y por qué es importante.
Con este video aprenderás cómo bañarte con el gluconato de clorhexidina o GCH antes de la cirugía.
Aprende cómo calmar tu mente antes de una intervención.
Con este video aprenderá cómo prepararse para una cirugía.
Con este video vas a aprender cómo prepararte antes en casa para tu cirugía.
Aprenda con este video cómo prepararse para una cirugía cuando tiene diabetes.
Con este video aprenderás como debes bañarte usando el jabón líquido de CHG antes de la cirugía.
Con este video aprenderás lo que quiere decir Nada por la Boca o NPO, y por qué es importante que sigas las instrucciones de tu profesional médico antes de una intervención o de hacerte pruebas.
Ve este video para saber lo que va a suceder el día de tu cirugía y durante tu estancia en el hospital.
Aprenda con este video sobre la sedación y cómo prepararse cuando necesite ser sedado.
Aprenda con este video los detalles básicos de lo que sucede durante una intervención laparoscópica
Con este video aprenderás sobre tu recuperación de la cirugía en casa, incluyendo el control del dolor y síntomas de complicaciones posibles después de tu cirugía.
Con este video vas a aprender cómo cuidarte después de una cirugía, incluyendo cómo identificar infecciones, manejar tus medicamentos y permanecer activo de manera segura para ayudar con tu recuperación
Aprenda con este video cómo usar un dispositivo de presión negativa y cuándo debe pedir ayuda.
Con este video aprenderá cómo taponar una herida en casa
Con este video aprenderá las instrucciones para cuidar sus puntos y ayudar a que sane correctamente.
Con este video aprende las respuestas de dudas comunes sobre la histerectomía.
Here are some tips for feeling better and getting well after surgery.
Surgery is a complex process. There's a lot you can do as a patient to help your health care team keep you safe. This sheet suggests steps you can take before and after surgery to help you do your part.
No matter how your incision was closed, follow these tips to help your incision heal once you get home.
Make life easier and safer after surgery. Reduce household hazards now. By planning ahead now, you'll have less to worry about during recovery.
After surgery, there are steps you can take to help with your recovery. You may have been an inpatient (staying in the hospital overnight) or an outpatient (going home the day of surgery). While in the hospital, it is important to follow directions from your surgeon, nurse, and other health care providers.
A drainage tube removes fluid from around an incision. This helps prevent infection and promotes healing. Follow these instructions.
Dressing your incision helps keep it clean, dry, and infection-free. That way it will heal faster. Here are steps to follow.
Some people feel a little nauseated after surgery. This is often due to medicines, dehydration, or simply the stress of surgery. Follow these helpful tips.
You are scheduled to have surgery. The health care staff will try to make your stay comfortable. Use the guidelines below to remind yourself what to do before surgery.
Pain after an operation (post-op pain) is common and expected. These guidelines can help you stay as comfortable as possible.
Medicines are not the only way to manage pain after surgery. Try the following techniques.
Outpatient surgery is also called same-day or ambulatory surgery. This sheet gives you more information about how to prepare.
If your movement is limited during recovery, ask a family member or friend to help prepare your bathroom. Use the tips below as a guide to help keep you safe in the bathroom.
This sheet tells you more about surgical site infections, what hospitals are doing to prevent them, and how they are treated if they do occur. It also tells you what you can do to prevent these infections.
Most children need pain management in the hospital. Your child's health care provider will assess your child's pain and prescribe pain medicine as needed. You can alert the health care team if you notice any signs of pain or discomfort in your child.
Follow these tips to help your child's incision heal as it should and to help prevent infection.
This sheet will help you learn what to expect after your outpatient surgery. It covers medicines, recovering at home, and follow-up care.
Here are images showing how to change the dressing on a surgical wound or incision.
Pain is expected after surgery. Know that you have a right to have this pain controlled. Managing pain helps you recover faster. Read on to learn more.
Robotic surgery doesn't mean that a machine does surgery instead of a person. It means that a surgeon uses the robotic tools to do surgery.
After any kind of surgery, many people have slow bowels and trouble urinating. This is common and lasts for a few days or so.
It's normal to feel anxious before having surgery. Here are some ways to make you feel more comfortable about your pending procedure.
Being as physically healthy as possible before surgery is important. It can help shorten your hospital stay and your total healing time.
Before your scheduled surgery, your care team may advise you to wash your body using a CHG skin cleanser. This helps reduce your risk for a surgical site infection.
1. Move the sliding goal marker as directed. 2. Sit up straight. 3. Hold the spirometer upright and at shoulder level. 4. Breathe out normally. 5. Place your lips around the mouthpiece. 6. Take a slow, deep breath in.
Aprenda con este video sobre los tipos de anestesia que se pueden usar para una cirugía o intervención
Con este video aprenderás lo fundamental de la anestesia epidural y cómo se administra
Aprenda con este video lo que es el bloqueo de nervios periféricos y cómo se administra.
This sheet explains steps you may need to take to prepare for anesthesia.
Your surgeon will use monitored anesthesia care (MAC) during your upcoming surgery. This sheet tells you more about this type of anesthesia.
Your surgeon has decided that you'll receive regional anesthesia. This sheet tells you what to expect with this type of anesthesia.
Details about what to expect when you have anesthesia.
Your anesthesiologist gives you anesthetics (medicines to keep you comfortable and decrease your awareness of surgery) and monitors your condition to keep you safe during surgery. You will have 1 of 3 kinds of anesthesia during your surgery.
Procedural sedation is medicine to ease discomfort, pain, and anxiety during a procedure. Learn more about sedation and how to care for yourself afterward.
Malignant hyperthermia is a rare reaction to certain medicines used for general anesthesia. The problem is severe and life threatening, but it can be treated.
An interscalene block is a type of peripheral nerve block. It's a shot of numbing medicine that's given near the brachial plexus in the neck, near the collarbone. Learn how it's done, what to expect, and what the risks are.
An intercostal nerve block is an injection (shot) of medicine close to the intercostal nerves to numb the nerves and treat pain in your chest and upper belly. The intercostal nerves start at your spine and run underneath your ribs.
A peripheral nerve block is an injection (shot) of medicine to numb a part of your body before an operation, or to control pain right after an operation. It's a type of regional anesthesia.
A pudendal nerve block is an injection (shot) of medicine close to the pudendal nerve. It can numb the nerve and block pain. The pudendal nerve runs from the back of your pelvis to the muscles and skin in your anus and your vagina or penis.
Aprenda con este video qué sucede durante un trasplante de riñón y cómo prepararse para la intervención.
Aprenda con este video qué va a suceder y qué tiene que hacer para cuidarse cuando regrese a casa después de un trasplante de riñón.
This sheet includes ways to protect yourself from infection after your transplant. You will continue these precautions until your health care provider tells you to stop. You may need to follow these guidelines for the rest of your life.
CMV is a common viral infection. In most people, it doesn't cause serious symptoms. But if you've had an organ transplant, it can cause serious illness.
People who get an organ transplant (organ recipients) and people who donate an organ (organ donors) are less healthy if they smoke cigarettes.
Organ rejection is when your immune system attacks a transplanted organ. It's most common early, but can happen anytime. Watch for fever, pain or swelling, trouble breathing, less urine, sudden weight gain, or yellow skin or eyes.
Medicine adherence means taking your medicines exactly as directed. It's very important for people with an organ transplant. After an organ transplant, you need to take anti-rejection medicines every day for the rest of your life.
After an organ transplant, you take anti-rejection medicines. These medicines weaken your immune system so that it doesn't attack your new organ. But a weaker immune system also raises your risk for infection.
Depression is a mental health condition that causes you to feel sad, lose interest in activities that you used to enjoy, withdraw from others, and have little energy. It's different from normal feelings of sadness, grief, or low energy.
Foodborne illness, or food poisoning, is illness from eating food that is contaminated. The food may have harmful bacteria, parasites, or viruses. Or it may have poisons (toxins).
