Aftercare
Meridian Bone & Joint Hospital
Ward 4B · Chennai

Discharged on Thursday.
Still knowing what to do on Sunday.

Aftercare turns the discharge summary into twenty-one days you can follow — medicines, wound checks, exercises, and the one call you should not put off.

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11:20
Day 4 of 21 · Friday 18 Sep

Today's plan

Day4of 21
Week 1 of 3On track
Knee bend 85° today.
Goal is 90° by day 7.
5 of 9
Paracetamol 650 mg
2:00 pm · after food
Remind
Your 21 days15 Sep – 5 Oct
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Medicines
3 of 8 taken today
Dressing change
5:00 pm · Sr. Anitha, home visit
Due
Walk indoors
9 of 15 minutes
11:38
Meridian Bone & Joint Hospital

Follow-up & report

Next appointmentIn 14 days
Fri 2 Oct · 11:15 am
MI
Dr. Meera Iyer · Orthopaedics
OPD 2, Block C · X-ray at 10:40 first
Add to calendar
Stitches out
Discharge summary, in plain wordsAll 6
What was done
Right knee replaced with a metal and plastic implant, 15 Sep. Home on 17 Sep.
What is normal now
Swelling and warmth for about six weeks. Bruising moves down the leg.
What to avoid
No kneeling, squatting or wet dressings until 2 Oct.
Recovery report · days 1–4
26 of 27
doses on time
72°→85°
knee bend
0
red flags
Send to Dr. Iyer before 2 Oct

Thursday 17 Sep · two nights after a knee replacement

Lakshmi went home with
the next three weeks
on one folded sheet.

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medicines
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days
1
sheet
Stopped the antibiotic on day 5, when the pain stopped.
Was not sure whether a warm knee at night was normal.
Read the follow-up date off the margin, in someone else's hand.

She came back on day 9 with a wound infection nobody had checked.

Wake up knowing what
day 4 actually needs.

Every dose at its time, the dressing change, the walk, and how far the knee should bend by the end of the week.

11:20
Day 4 of 21 · Friday 18 Sep

Today's plan

Day4of 21
Week 1 of 3On track
Knee bend 85° today.
Goal is 90° by day 7.
5 of 9
Paracetamol 650 mg
2:00 pm · after food
Remind
Your 21 days15 Sep – 5 Oct
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MedicinesDressingWalkFollow-up
Medicines
3 of 8 taken today
Dressing change
5:00 pm · Sr. Anitha, home visit
Due
Walk indoors
9 of 15 minutes
Week one in plain numbers, and today’s nine tasks
The next dose, with the time and why it is there
Twenty-one days, each carrying its own tasks
Aftercare5:00 pm
Dressing change in 20 minutes
Sr. Anitha is on her way. Keep the leg up.
Aftercare8:00 pm
Cefuroxime 500 mg
Tablet 8 of 14. Six more after tonight.

Is this normal for day 4?

A photo a day, held against the one the ward nurse took. Swelling and redness scored the same way every time.

11:26
Right knee · dressing on

Wound check

Day 115 Sep, ward
Day 418 Sep, home
Swelling2 of 4
Day 1 was 3 of 4
Redness1 of 4
Day 1 was 2 of 4
Looks normal for day 4
Less swelling and less redness than day 1. Keep the dressing dry, and don’t put cream on it.
This is a comparison, not a diagnosis. Send today’s photo to Ward 4B if anything worries you.
Next dressing change
Today 5:00 pm · Sr. Anitha, home visit
Day 115 Sep, ward
Day 418 Sep, home
Less swelling, less redness
A comparison, not a diagnosis.
Four photos so far, all kept on the phone
Day 1
15 Sep
Day 2
16 Sep
Day 3
17 Sep
Day 4
18 Sep

Four things that
should not wait
until morning.

No guessing and no diagnosis. Each one says call the ward or watch for a day, and dials Ward 4B for you.

11:31
Ward 4B answers day and night

What not to wait on

Your temperature, 8:05 am
99.1°F
97°F101°F · call the ward103°F
Fever above 101°F
Take it again in ten minutes.
Call Ward 4B · 044 4520 1188
Wound smells or leaks fluid
Leave the dressing alone.
Call Ward 4B · 044 4520 1188
Calf pain, hot or tight
Stop walking, keep it still.
Call Ward 4B · 044 4520 1188
Breathless or chest pain
Ambulance first, then the ward.
Call 108, then Ward 4B · 044 4520 1188
Warm knee at night that settles
Watch 24 hours, then call 044 4520 1188.
Fever above 101°F
Take it again after ten minutes. Still high? Call — do not wait for the morning.
Call Ward 4B · 044 4520 1188
Your temperature, 8:05 am99.1°F
97°F101°F · call the ward103°F
Watch for 24 hours
Warm knee at night that settles by morning.

Ward 4B answers day and night on 044 4520 1188. For chest pain or breathlessness the app says 108 first, then the ward.

The review on 2 Oct, and something to hand over.

11:38
Meridian Bone & Joint Hospital

Follow-up & report

Next appointmentIn 14 days
Fri 2 Oct · 11:15 am
MI
Dr. Meera Iyer · Orthopaedics
OPD 2, Block C · X-ray at 10:40 first
Add to calendar
Stitches out
Discharge summary, in plain wordsAll 6
What was done
Right knee replaced with a metal and plastic implant, 15 Sep. Home on 17 Sep.
What is normal now
Swelling and warmth for about six weeks. Bruising moves down the leg.
What to avoid
No kneeling, squatting or wet dressings until 2 Oct.
Recovery report · days 1–4
26 of 27
doses on time
72°→85°
knee bend
0
red flags
Send to Dr. Iyer before 2 Oct
Recovery report
Lakshmi Raghavan · days 1–4
Doses on time26 of 27 · one late, 16 Sep
AntibioticCefuroxime 500 mg · 7 of 14
Knee bend72° day 1 → 85° today
Temperaturehighest 99.4°F, on day 2
Wound photos4 · swelling 3 → 2
Red flags raisednone
Prepared for Dr. Meera Iyer, Orthopaedics, before the review on 2 Oct. Aftercare records what happened; it does not interpret it.

One page a doctor can read in twenty seconds.

Doses, degrees of bend, temperatures and every wound photo — printed, or sent before the appointment.

X-ray at 10:40Stitches outBring medicine strips
14days until the review
18 Sep, day 42 Oct, review

The app books the X-ray slot first, then reminds you the night before.

The discharge sheet, turned into twenty-one days.

Week 1 · getting home15 Sep – 21 Sep
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Today4
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Week 2 · moving further22 Sep – 28 Sep
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Week 3 · to the review29 Sep – 5 Oct
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Plan ends
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MedicinesDressing changeWalkPhysioFollow-up

Days fill in as they are finished, today is raised, and 2 Oct carries the review. A daughter in Bengaluru sees the same strip.

Aftercare

Surgery takes two hours.
Getting better takes three
weeks, at home.

Aftercare stays for all twenty-one of them.

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Aftercare
14
tablets in the course.

Most of them come after the pain has already gone — which is exactly when people stop.

7 taken · days 1–4
Cefuroxime 500 mg, twice a day
7 left · finish by 21 Sep
Even when the knee stops hurting
todaylast tablet
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Aftercare counts to the last one, then tells you you are done.

Your doses come from the discharge summary. Stopping early is a decision for your doctor — the app never makes it for you.

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Aftercare

Design system

Built for someone in pain: big type, one accent, warnings that earn their colour.

Slate ink
#15242E
Healing green
#12795A
Deep green
#0A5340
Mint
#CFE7DA
Watch amber
#A96B0C
Red flag
#B32718
85°
Figtree 800 · tabular figures
Call Ward 4B before you worry alone.
Figtree 500 for body, never under 14 pt in the app. Sentence case everywhere; the only shouting is a red flag.
On trackWatch 24 hoursCall the ward
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Call Ward 4B · 044 4520 1188
Cefuroxime 500 mg
8:00 am and 8:00 pm · finish all 14

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