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• Deciding to have a Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (Royal Columbian Hospital) [English] Public

  

  This booklet has information about trascathetar aortic valve replacement as a possible option for treating your heart valve disease. (English) Colour

  Printing Cost:

  $0.12 (B&W) $0.72 (Colour)

  Packaging Unit Quantity:

  50

  Printshop Number:

  257105
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• A Guide to Your Pacemaker: Information for Patients and Families (Royal Columbian Hospital, Jim Pattison Outpatient Care and Surgery Centre) [English] Public

  

  This booklet tells you about your pacemaker. This booklet will tell you about what to expect before, during and after your hospital stay. Your nurse will help you to understand the information and how to take care of yourself when you are having a pacemaker. (English) Colour

  Printing Cost:

  $0.42 (B&W) $2.52 (Colour)

  Packaging Unit Quantity:

  50

  Printshop Number:

  257261
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• Cardiac Catheterization (Royal Columbian Hospital) [English] Public

  

  This booklet explains how your heart works, what a heart catheterization is, what to expect, and possible treatments following this procedure. This booklet is intended for those people who have been referred to us for this procedure. Closer to the date of your procedure, we send you more specific information about how to prepare. (English) Colour

  Printing Cost:

  $0.36 (B&W) $2.16 (Colour)

  Packaging Unit Quantity:

  50

  Printshop Number:

  264951
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• Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm - Endovascular Aneurysm Repair (EVAR) (Royal Columbian Hospital) [English] Public

  

  You are having a procedure to repair your abdominal aortic aneurysm. Your aorta is the main artery that carries blood from your heart to the rest of your body. It is about the size of a garden hose. The part that carries blood to your lower body is the abdominal aorta. (English) Colour

  Printing Cost:

  $0.18 (B&W) $1.08 (Colour)

  Packaging Unit Quantity:

  50

  Printshop Number:

  265645
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• Your Heart Surgery Journey - Preparing While in Hospital (Fraser Health) [English] Public

  

  You are going to have heart surgery. We break this time frame into phases: before surgery, recovery in the hospital then when you get home. When you take an active part now, you can help your recovery after surgery. (English) Colour

  Printing Cost:

  $0.24 (B&W) $1.44 (Colour)

  Packaging Unit Quantity:

  50

  Printshop Number:

  265933
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• Preparing for Cardiac Catheterization (Royal Columbian Hospital) [English] Public

  

  Cardiac catheterization is a procedure used to diagnose and treat cardiovascular conditions. A long thin tube called a catheter is inserted in an artery or vein in your groin, neck, or arm and threaded through your blood vessels to your heart. Using this catheter, doctors can then do diagnostic tests. (English) Colour

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  Punjabi (262864), Chinese - Simplified (262865), English (255562)

  Printing Cost:

  $0.12 (B&W) $0.72 (Colour)

  Packaging Unit Quantity:

  50

  Printshop Number:

  255562
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• A Guide to Your Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Defibrillator & Implantable Cardiac Defibrillator (Royal Columbian Hospital, Jim Pattison Outpatient Care and Surgery Centre) [English] Public

  

  This booklet tells you about your heart device, as well as about what to expect before, during and after your hospital stay. Your nurse will help you to understand the information and how to take care of yourself when having a heart device. (English) Colour

  Printing Cost:

  $0.42 (B&W) $2.52 (Colour)

  Packaging Unit Quantity:

  50

  Printshop Number:

  264009
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• Your Heart Surgery Journey - Preparing While at Home (Fraser Health) [English] Public

  

  Use this booklet to help you maintain or improve your ability move and do everyday activities, set goals, keep track of your questions, plan ahead for your recovery after surgery, and find community supports and programs that will help you prepare for your surgery while waiting for your surgery date. (English) Colour

  Printing Cost:

  $0.18 (B&W) $1.08 (Colour)

  Packaging Unit Quantity:

  50

  Printshop Number:

  266125
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• Anti-Platelet Medicine – ticagrelor (Brilinta®) (Fraser Health) [English] Public

  

  Ticagrelor (say ‘tye-ka-grel-or’) is given to people who have had a heart attack. After a heart attack, some people have stents placed into arteries that supply blood to the heart (coronary arteries). A stent is a small tube of reinforced wire that helps keep the blocked artery open. Ticagrelor helps lower your chance of having another heart attack and helps prevent blood clots inside stents. (English) Colour

  Printing Cost:

  $0.12 (B&W) $0.72 (Colour)

  Packaging Unit Quantity:

  50

  Printshop Number:

  266175
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• MitraClip - A guide for patients and families [English] Public

  The MitraClip device is used to treat mitral valve regurgitation. The purpose of this guide is to help you and your family prepare for your procedure at Royal Columbian Hospital. We give you information specific to Royal Columbian Hospital and who to contact. The MitraClip Patient Guide was created and is owned by the University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI). This guide or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the UOHI. (English)

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  https://www.ottawaheart.ca/document/mitraclip-pati...
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