This pamphlet explains what to expect while waiting for your liver transplant. Topics include your transplant assessment, common tests, waiting period, and research. Information about getting ready for the day a liver is donated, getting the call when a liver is available, and what to expect before, during, and after surgery is provided. This pamphlet is also available in French.
This pamphlet outlines Waldenstrom’s Macroglobulinemia in detail, highlighting symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, self-care, and when to contact your health care team.
This pamphlet outlines the importance of walking during your hospital stay.
Warfarin sodium (also known as warfarin) is a type of anticoagulant (blood thinning) medication. Anticoagulant medications make your blood less likely to clot (thicken into a clump). This pamphlet explains how to take this medication. This pamphlet is also available in French.
Cette brochure fournit des instructions précises aux patients qui prennent de la warfarine. Des instructions sont également fournies sur la façon de prendre le médicament, les doses manquées, les analyses sanguines RIN (ou INR), les interactions médicamenteuses et alimentaires, les effets secondaires et les mesures de sécurité. This pamphlet is also available in English.
This pamphlet outlines water rules for highly immunocompromised patients to follow while admitted to the Victoria General (VG) site or the Nova Scotia Rehabilitation and Arthritis Centre (NSRC) because of a type of bacteria commonly found in water. This pamphlet is also available in French.
The information in this pamphlet will help you and your family get ready for your stay on the 4B Hospitalist Medicine Unit (HMU), a unit for patients who need some care and are waiting to be discharged from the hospital.
This pamphlet explains what to expect on the palliative care unit at Dartmouth General Hospital. Topics include what a usual day is like on the unit, who is on your health care team, and how to give feedback about your hospital stay.
This pamphlet explains what to expect for patients staying in Unit 8.2 at the Halifax Infirmary.
This pamphlet outlines what to expect as an inpatient on 9A, a General Surgery Unit.