Dear patients and families:
To help you better understand all about the hospitalization affair in connection with your treatment, so as to relieve your anxiety and nervosity, our maternity& gynecology services have prepared this hospitalization schedule for your information. Please read it carefully and cooperate with counseling services our medical staff gives you, we trust that you will recover soon. When you come for hospitalization formalities, remember to bring with you all the drugs you are presently taking, or you should keep us informed of the names of those drugs if you didn’t bring with you; if you don’t know even the names of those drugs, please obtain them from where you were given the recipe, their information will help us to better take care of your case

Day 1

1. Proceed with hospitalization formalities. Take measurements of body height, weight, temperature, pulse, respiration, BP. Give signatures on assents to operation and anesthesia.
2. Nurse will prepare you for a clean body.
3. Doctor will check you up physically, inquire of your antecedents, if of anomalous coatgulation, drug allergia, chest, heart, diabetes, thyroidal diseases, as well as your gynecological syndromes, in the presence of any of the abovementioned diseases keep your bed charge doctor informed accordingly.
4. When through with hospitalization reporting formalities wait for blood sampling, urine testing, chest X ray and cardiography inspections.
5. Stand by for call to receive gynecologic supersonic inspections.
6. Your bed charge doctor will come over to see you.
7. Your nurse will arrange enema for you before you fall asleep.
8. Hold your tongue and belly fast from any food or drink when midnight is past.
9. Relax at night, have a good night sleep.

Day 2

1. On daybreaking your nurse will arrange you for another round of enema.
2. Put one the operation suit, lay aside your personal effects, in including: wristwatch, fingering, mobile denture, necklace, have your family kinfolk bring back any valuable items that is yours lest they should get lost.
3. We will give you intravenous injections, the fasting shall last through the operation, food and rink inclusive.
4. If you still have anything in doubt with the operation, you may discuss it with your doctor before the operation begins.
5. Stand by for operation notice, you will be escorted to the operation room by the staff attendants. Your family will wait outside the operation room or in the ward.
6. In the operation room, the anesthetist will perform anesthesia on you, please cooperate with the anesthetist’s direction.
7. When the operation is through, the staff attendants will escort you to the anesthesia observation room for observation before sending you back to your ward for rehabilitation.
8. Your wound is compressed with gauze and you re left with catheter, your vagina may be tamped with gauze which is usually removed the next day, petty amount of vaginal bleeding is normal (please prepare two padding sheets to absorb vaginal hemorrhage).
9. In the event of a pain developed on the wound, keep the nurse notified, they may give you an analgesic shooting every 4 hours.
   10. Our anesthesia Department is furnished with special pain relief control but for which the charge wll be borne by the patient herself, if you feel a need for that kind of relief control, keep your doctor informed at the operation room.

Day 3

1. Your catheter will be removed in the morning, and you should be able to pass water all by yourself within 4 hours since, in the negative case, keep your attendants informed.
2. If, in the option of the doctor in charge, your catheter should remain intubated for special considerations, then follow the doctor’s instructions until it is deemed fit to remove same.
3. You may walk about alongside your bed, to promote passage of flatus.
4. As long as passage of flatus is made, keep the medical staff informed accordingly, and diet may be resumed subject to doctor’s approval, still avoid eating flatulent and greasy food, such as milk or soybean milk.

Day 4~6

1. When the case has settled stably and upon doctor’s consent, you may proceed with discharge procedures and bring drugs home for intake; as to whether a disability certificate should be issued is a decision to be reached in the sole discretion of the doctor in charge.
2. Note that on discharge home:
   *Return to the emergency service for followup treatment in the event of: a fever, gross vaginal bleeding, grave abdominal pain, wound suppuration; and caution guard against food containing alcoholic content;
   *Return to clinic service for followup the next week following operation the ward will assist you in reserving a clinic visit;
   *Take care of the abdominal wound per instructions given by the doctor in charge, avoid exposing the wound to moisture in the first two weeks of the operation.
   *Take care of it yourself as regards: balanced diet, appropriate rest, restraint from heaving heavy objects, from engaging in labor-intensive tasks, taking a shower instead of a bath, avoiding getting a constipation.
   *Activities to be taken subsequently to an operation should be on a gradual basis: the first two weeks: rest and relax;
   Week 2~4: light toned activities, taking a walk, cooking;
   Week 4~6: moderately brisk activities
3. One completion of the 6th week you will have to return to the clinic service for followup, if the recovery is good and with your doctor permitting, you may start driving and resume sex life.