Med Knowledge

Your Hospital Care after Surgery

After your surgery, you will wake up in the Recovery Room. The nurse will check you often and give you…

Use a medicine spoon or dropper that has markings on it to measure your child’s liquid medicine. The pharmacy may…

Appendectomy is a surgery to remove the appendix. The appendix is a small pouch that comes off of the large…

Blood is made up of fluid called plasma that contains red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets. Each part…

Radiation therapy is the use of radiation to treat cancer. This treatment is used to: Cure cancer by destroying cancer…

There are some things you will need to do to get ready for your surgery. Before Surgery Before surgery, you…

Peritoneal dialysis is a treatment used to clean the blood of extra fluid and waste that builds up in the…

A pacemaker is a small device that helps control your heart rate by: Speeding up the heart rate when it…

Nitroglycerin is a medicine used to treat chest pain called angina. Take nitroglycerin as directed by your doctor If you…

Some medicines need to be given through a nebulizer treatment. Nebulizer treatments are also called breathing treatments, aerosol treatments or…

A bowel prep is done to clear the bowel or large intestines and rectum, of all solid matter before certain…

Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure, or LEEP, is a procedure to remove tissue from the cervix that is not normal and…

A hysterectomy is a surgery to remove a woman’s uterus. The uterus is one of the organs of the female…

Follow these guidelines for care as your new joint heals over the next 6 to 8 weeks. Do not try…

When your kidneys do not work well, dialysis is needed to remove extra fluid and waste products from the body….