Your team’s instructions come first
Postoperative instructions depend on the procedure and your circumstances. Keep the documents your surgical team supplied and confirm how to contact the service if you are worried. If you believe there is an emergency, use the local emergency number. Do not wait for a scheduled diary check or a routine follow-up to act on the team’s urgent instructions.
Kingston and Richmond NHS publishes a patient leaflet about endoscopic sinus surgery. It is useful background, but a generic leaflet from another service is not a replacement for the instructions issued for your own operation. Ask the treating team to resolve any difference or unclear wording.
Keep the contact pathway at the top
Leave an unknown field marked unknown and contact the service to clarify it. Do not fill a gap with a generic internet instruction. This record contains no universal schedule for work, exercise, travel, rinsing or medication.
| Field | What to copy from your team |
|---|---|
| Procedure and date | The wording on your own documents |
| Routine contact | Service, number and opening hours supplied |
| Out-of-hours route | The pathway your team has given |
| Urgent instructions | Keep the original wording and document available |
| Follow-up | Date, location and preparation instructions |
Sources: Kingston and Richmond NHS: Endoscopic sinus surgery; AAO-HNS: Clinical Practice Guideline, Surgical Management of Chronic Rhinosinusitis
Free templates for this guide
Open a worksheet to fill in and print, or download a blank copy. Keep completed records private and share them only with people you choose.
Record an observation without classifying recovery
Use the date and time, what you noticed, how it affected you and any contact you made with the team. If you are asked to monitor a particular detail, record the measure or wording they specify. Keep medicine and routine entries consistent with the current instructions you were given.
A fictional follow-up note might say: “On Tuesday afternoon I noticed a change I wanted to ask about. I contacted the number on my discharge instructions and wrote down the advice I was given.” It does not label the observation normal or abnormal, or suggest that another person should receive the same advice.
Prepare questions for the actual follow-up
Ask which changes the team wants you to record, what contact route applies before the next visit and which instructions remain in force. Bring the original discharge information and a short dated list of questions. If you have already received advice by phone, mention when and from whom it came without assuming it still answers a changed situation.
This guide has not been reviewed by a surgical clinician. It is a framework for preserving your own instructions and observations, not an aftercare protocol. A recovery diary should never give permission to ignore a symptom or delay contacting the treating service.
AirBloom is in development. Any future follow-up organization feature would need to preserve the surgical team’s individual instructions and remain distinct from clinical assessment. The existing one-page summary can hold questions, dates and contacts without predicting a recovery course.
Sources: Kingston and Richmond NHS: Endoscopic sinus surgery; AAO-HNS: Clinical Practice Guideline, Surgical Management of Chronic Rhinosinusitis
Sources & further reading
- Kingston and Richmond NHS: Endoscopic sinus surgery
- AAO-HNS: Clinical Practice Guideline, Surgical Management of Chronic Rhinosinusitis
This guide provides general education, not individual medical advice. It has not been clinically reviewed. Talk to a qualified clinician about persistent, new or worsening symptoms. Follow your local emergency guidance for urgent concerns.
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