Home care after CABG

• Omit play outside for several weeks.
• Avoid activities in which the child could fall and be injured, such as bike riding, for 2 to 4 weeks.
• Avoid crowds for 2 weeks after discharge.
• Follow a no-added-salt diet if prescribed.
• Do not add any new foods to the infant’s diet (if an allergy exists to the new food, the manifestations may be interpreted as a postoperative complication).
• Do not place creams, lotions, or powders on the incision until completely healed.
• The child may return to school usually the third week after discharge, starting with half-days.
• The child should not participate in physical education for 2 months.
• Instruct the parents to discipline the child normally.
• Instruct the parents about the importance of the 2-week follow-up.
• Avoid immunizations, invasive procedures, and dental visits for 2 months; following this time period, the immunization schedule and dental visits need to be resumed.
• Advise the parents regarding the importance of a dental visit every 6 months after age 3 years and to inform the dentist of the cardiac problem so that antibiotics can be prescribed if necessary.
• Instruct the parents to call the physician if coughing, tachypnea, cyanosis, vomiting, diarrhea, anorexia, pain, or fever occur, or any swelling, redness, or drainage occurs at the site of the incision.