Uvulo-palato-pharyngoplasty (UPPP) aftercare advice
Advice for patients who have had UPPP (operation to help snoring). which involves trimming the soft palate and removal of uvula
Advice for patients who have had UPPP (operation to help snoring). which involves trimming the soft palate and removal of uvula
Gives you advice and information following treatment that required a general anaesthetic (i.e. you were asleep).
Explains the ward's routines and facilities
Gives advice on preventing further bleeds and what to do if you do get a nose bleed, following cautery (treatment with silver nitrate stick to stop bleeding)
Information about ear operations which include combined approach tympanoplasty, modified radical mastoidectomy and cortical mastoidectomy
Explains surgery to repair a hole (perforation) in the eardrum
Advice following surgery to make a small cut in the eardrum to insert tiny tubes called grommets which act as a ventilation tube
Explains how to clean out your nose using a nasal douche
Instructions on how to use your steroid nasal sprays and saline washes
Advice following nasal surgery (septorhinoplasty)
Advice following functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS), septoplasty, submucous resection of the septum, middle meatal antrostomy, reduction of inferior turbinates and nasal polypectomy
Instructions for patients prescribed nose drops to treat or manage a condition
Explains what happens when you come to the hospital for a parathyroidectomy operation - a procedure in which one, or up to four, parathyroid glands are removed
Aftercare advice following salivary gland / neck surgery including branchial cyst / neck node biopsy
Aftercare advice following scopes (microlaryngoscopy, endoscopy / EUA of throat)
Explains an operation to remove part of the fixed stapes bone in the middle ear and replace it with a small teflon piston
Explains what happens during surgery to treat or explore an overactive thyroid gland, benign nodules or suspicion of cancerous cells in the thyroid gland
Aftercare advice for patients who have had surgery to remove the whole or part of their thyroid
Provides some background information about tonsil surgery in adults
Advice following an operation to remove the tonsils (two structures at the back of the throat)