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Advice After Surgery |
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| How do I care for my wound? |
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Keep your wound dressing
clean and dry. |
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Your doctor or Breast Care Nurse
will check your wound in the outpatient clinic after your discharge. |
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Your doctor or Breast Care Nurse
will let you know when the dressing can be removed. |
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See your doctor if
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You have a fever. |
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Your wound appears red or swollen. |
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There is increasing pain over the wound area. |
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Your dressing gets stained with blood or fluid. |
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| How do I care for my drain(s)? |
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Do not disconnect the tubes. |
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Avoid sudden pulling of
the tubes. |
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Mark on the bottle the
level of fluid drained every morning. This is to monitor
the amount of drainage. |
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Your doctor or Breast
Care Nurse will check the drain(s) in the outpatient clinic.
Once the drainage is minimal, the drain(s) will be removed. |
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Drain |
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| How do I care for my arm? |
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Do the exercises as instructed
by your physiotherapist. |
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Perform these arm exercises
3 times a day until you regain your usual arm movements. |
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You can use your affected
arm normally but:
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Avoid
carrying heavy objects until the wounds have completely
healed |
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Take care to prevent
injury on your affected arm. |
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Arm Exercises |
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