Patient information leaflets
Surgery
Please see our patient information leaflets below
- No one at home - post-operative phone calls
- Going home from hospital (Poole Hospital)
- Going home after a local anaesthetic (Poole Hospital)
- Going home from hospital (Royal Bournemouth Hospital)
- Going home after a local anaesthetic (Royal Bournemouth Hospital)
- Patient returning home alone by taxi after general anaesthetic
- Pregnancy testing before a procedure
- Managing your pain after surgery
- Post-operative wound care
Anaesthetic
Endocrine
GI surgery
Oral surgery/oral and maxillofacial
- Aftercare instructions - dental extractions
- Aftercare instructions - biopsy of the mouth
- Aftercare instructions - after wisdom tooth removal
- Aftercare instructions - removal of facial lesion
Skin cancer
- Wide local excision with general anaesthesia for skin cancer
- Wide local excision and skin flap for skin cancer
- Wide local excision with skin graft for skin cancer
- The Acti-V.A.C.™ portable negative pressure dressing system
- Sentinel lymph node biopsy for skin cancer
- Groin dissection for skin cancer
- Excision biopsy for suspected skin cancer
- Axillary node clearance for skin cancer
