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Changes to Cheltenham A&E during BMA Industrial Action 17 - 22 December
An endoscopy is a test to check if your tummy is healthy. This page explains what to expect when you come for your endoscopy.
by Beth Jones
This page explains what to expect when your child has a general anaesthetic for a Computerised Tomography (CT) or a Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) scan.
This page provides information for patients who may need to have an indwelling pleural catheter.
This page provides information for patients who have an open wound (not closed with stitches) that needs debriding (removal of unwanted tissue) to allow it to heal. Larval therapy and bio surgical debridement are 2 other terms that we use to describe the debriding of wounds using sterile larvae (maggots). Larval therapy is a reliable and recognised practice to assist debridement in a wound.
by Lowri Bowen
Microbiology
Serum - paired samples not required
You have been referred this page because you are going to have the outpatient endometrial ablation treatment. This page gives you information about the treatment, your visit to the hospital and advice following your discharge.
Please telephone the laboratory when these samples are collected
This page gives you important information about having a bronchoscopy. It should also help to answer any questions you may have.
You will have regular appointments with your midwife throughout your pregnancy, and your midwife will explain this process to you.
Carboxyhaemoglobin levels (COHb) are indicated when there is a clinical suspicion of carbon monoxide poisoning.
A perilunate dislocation is a severe injury to the ligaments of the wrist which results in dislocation of the wrist around the lunate bone.
This page gives you information about pelvic organ prolapse, its causes and available treatments. This page does not replace any advice given by your doctor, nurse or physiotherapist.
You have been suggested this page because we want to measure the level of kidney function of your child/young person. This page gives you information about the glomerular filtration rate (IGFR) test that is used to do this and what to expect. At Gloucestershire Hospital NHS Foundation Trust we use iohexal to measure the IGFR of the kidneys to show us how well they are working.
You have been advised to have a therapeutic gastroscopy which provides treatment carried out via an endoscope. A gastroscopy may also be referred to as an endoscopy or OGD (meaning an oesophageal-gastro-duodenoscopy).