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Your healthcare team feel that you are ready to go home. This advice has been designed to give you all the information you need to take home with you. Please ask the staff if you have any questions.
Please keep this information safe after you go home.
Your health speciality for ongoing outpatient care is Neurosurgery.
The consultant for your operation is:
Your NHS number is:
Your Sheffield Children’s number is:
Your medical device is called a baclofen pump.
Implant details:
Date of surgery:
And is set at:
Your setting will be reviewed by the Neurology service at Ryegate, during your Ryegate outpatient’s appointment.
Wound checked and care discussed
ROS planned and discussed
Ryegate Outpatient appointment (OPA) booked
Decolonisation discussed and supplies given
Follow-up booked and discussed
Neurology CNS aware of discharge
Ticket home completed
Other professionals informed
Medical discharge
Nursing discharge
It is common to require some pain relief after an operation. Please follow the advice given at discharge. The requirement for pain relief should reduce as you recover. If more pain relief is needed please call Ward 5 for advice.
Your decolonisation plan needs to continue at home.
Please use washes and gel on the days below.
Day | Date | Wash | Nasal gel |
When: Requested
With who:
When: Requested
With who:
When: Requested
With who:
With: Location: On date: Time:
With: Location: On date: Time:
With: Location: On date: Time:
Please make sure that you attend.
This is very important. It enables us to pass the appointment onto another patient who needs it and rebook your appointment for you.
If you have emergency concerns please attend your local emergency department or contact 999 for assistance.
Your stitches are absorbable
Your stitches are non-absorbable
Please keep your wound dry until:
You have stitches or clips that need to be removed on
Please attend on to have them removed.
Please change your dressings:
Please keep the head bandage on until:
Please don’t swim until all wounds are completely healed.
If you notice any of the below please contact Ward 5 directly on 0114 271 7758
If you notice any remaining stitches after 3 weeks please contact the ward to have them removed.
Liz Hinde and Jan Hardy – Clinical Nurse Specialists in hydrocephalus
0114 305 3214
John Preston – Advanced Nurse Practitioner
0114 271 7758
If you have any questions or concerns please contact:
Please note: this is a generic information sheet relating to care at Sheffield Children’s NHS FT. These details may not reflect treatment at other hospitals. This information is not intended as a substitute for professional medical care. Always follow your healthcare professionals’ instructions. If this resource relates to medicines, please read it alongside the medicine manufacturer’s patient information leaflet. If this information has been translated into another language from English, efforts have been made to maintain accuracy, but there may still be some translation errors. If you are unsure about any of the guidance in this resource or have specific questions about how it relates to your child, always ask your healthcare professional for further advice.
Resource number: NSC7
Resource Type: Article
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