Patient information leaflets
We have a range of patient information literature which is available to download. Please click on the titles below to access the relevant document.
If required, we can also produce the information in large print or provide translations for patients whose first language is not English. For further information please contact the Patient Advice and Liaison Service on 01480 364896.
Patient guides
Active Cycle of Breathing Techniques 
Acupuncture
Bone Density Scanning
Breathlessness Clinic
Cardiac Rehabilitation
Cardiac Surgery
Cardiac Surgery: Enhancing your recovery after cardiac surgery
Cardiac Surgery medicines
Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension
Clostridium Difficile
Critical Care Area: A visitors guide
CT Scanning
Deactivating your ICD
Discharge information for NIPPY Patients
Family Cardiac Screening Service
General Exercise Programme
Hand hygiene
Heart transplantation
Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICDs) follow-up care
Increasing calories and protein in your diet
Infection Prevention and Control Advice to Contractors
Interstitial Lung Disease Service
Isolation Precautions
Local Anaesthetic Thoracoscopy
Lung Defence Unit Telephone Support Service
Lung Defence Unit - Physiotherapy Service
Lung Transplantation
McKinley T34 Syringe Pump
Medication safety
MRSA
MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
MRI Stress Scan Preparation - Adenosine
MRI Stress Scan Preparation - Dobutamine
Myocardial Perfusion (MIBI) Scan
Norovirus
Nutritional support dietary advice
Obstructive Sleep Apnoea and CPAP Therapy
Obstructive Sleep Apnoea and Weight Loss
Overnight Sleep Studies
Pacemakers - follow-up care
Pain Relief After Surgery
Patients Handbook, In patients
Postural Drainage
Preventing Pressure Uulcers
Primary Immunodeficiency, Understanding
Pulmonary Endarterectomy
Quality of Care & Service
Receiving a Transfusion
Returning to Fitness After a Coronary Stent Procedure
Recently Bereaved
Reducing the Risk of Blood Clots
Returning to fitness after a heart attack
Safe Swallowing
Secondary Immunodeficiency
Thoracic surgery diary
Thoracic Surgery Medicines
Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI)
Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS)
Tunnelled Indwelling Pleural Catheter
Using your Acapella
Vaccinations in the Lung Defence Clinic
Voice care
What happens to information held about you
Writing to a donors family
Newsletters/Reports
Annual Reports
Papworth Pulse Issue 22 - March 2013
Transplant Times Summer 2012
General Information – Papworth
PALS Information for Patients, Relatives and Carers
Papworth Hospital Site Map
Volunteering at Papworth Hospital
General information – not Papworth
Anaesthesia Explained
Taking Medicines