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• After Back Surgery: Going Home

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• After Back Surgery: More Tips for Daily Living

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• After Back Surgery: Tips for Daily Living

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• After Back Surgery: Your Hospital Recovery

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• After Open-Heart Surgery: In the Hospital

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• After Reverse Total Shoulder Replacement

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• Back Health After Surgery

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• Bathroom Safety After Surgery

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• Be Involved in Your Health Care: When You’re Having Surgery

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• Before Surgery: Preparing Your Home

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• Caring for a Closed Suction Drainage Tube

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• Deep Breathing

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• Deep Coughing

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• Discharge Instructions for Abdominal Surgery

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• Discharge Instructions for Fine-Needle Thyroid Biopsy

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• Discharge Instructions for Laparoscopic Nissen Fundoplication

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• Discharge Instructions: Caring for Your Child’s Cranial Incision

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• Discharge Instructions: Caring for Your Hemovac Drainage Tube

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• Discharge Instructions: Caring for Your Jackson Pratt Drainage Tube

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• Discharge Instructions: Caring for Your Jejunostomy Tube (J-Tube)

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• Discharge Instructions: Caring for Your T-Tube

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• Discharge Instructions: Irrigating Your Colostomy

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• Discharge Instructions: Your Nasogastric Tube (NG Tube)

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• Having Parathyroid Surgery

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• Having Reverse Total Shoulder Replacement

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• Helping Siblings Cope with Your Child's Surgery

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• Lung Surgery: Your Evaluation and Tests

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• Maximizing Surgical Safety

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• Nutrition After Surgery

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• Open Kidney Exploration

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• Post-Surgery Checklist

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• Preparing for Back Surgery

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• Preparing Your 0- to 12-Month-Old for Surgery

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• Preparing Your 1- to 2-Year-Old for Surgery

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• Preparing Your 13- to 18-Year-Old for Surgery

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• Preparing Your 3- to 5-Year-Old for Surgery

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• Preparing Your 6- to 12-Year-Old for Surgery

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• Pre-Surgery Checklist

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• Reverse Total Shoulder Replacement

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• Step-by-Step: Changing a Surgical Wound Dressing

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• Surgery Coloring Sheet for Kids: Before Surgery

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• Surgery Coloring Sheet for Kids: Getting Ready at Home

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• Surgery Coloring Sheet for Kids: Going Home

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• Surgery Coloring Sheet for Kids: In the Operating Room

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• Surgery Coloring Sheet for Kids: People You See

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• Surgery Coloring Sheet for Kids: Waking Up

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• Understanding Septal Myectomy

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• Using an Incentive Spirometer

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• Using Play to Help Your Child Cope with Surgery

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• When Your Child Needs Emergency Surgery

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• When Your Child Needs Surgery: The Day of Surgery

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• When Your Child Needs Surgery: The Operating Room and Staff

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• When Your Child Needs Surgery: Words to Use with Your Child

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• Your Child's Medicine- Managing Pain After Surgery

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• Your Child's Preoperative Information

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• Your Child's Surgery: Working with Hospital Staff

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• Your Liver Transplant: The Procedure