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For your treatment, you will be sitting in a reclining armchair. Other patients will be having their treatments in the area around you.
You will be told at your pre-assessment appointment if this will be the case.
Will I be asked to sign a consent form?
A comment will be provided on the report concerning the type and potency of the inhibitor
It is not unusual for people to be anxious and it might be better to seek advice rather than worry.
With local anaesthesia, the area to be operated on will be numbed with an injection.
You must be 18 or over to play.
on EDTA, Serum B12 and Folate can only be performed on clotted samples (gold / red top).
Higher than normal ammonia levels may be seen in infection in neonates but levels greater than 200 µmol/L should always be considered as significant.
You may be asked to put on a hospital gown You will be asked to lie on your front on an X-ray trolley X-ray images (pictures) may be used to guide the
Following the assessment, your treatment will be authorised to continue, or it may need to be altered or postponed.
Day case abdominal paracentesis (abdominal drain) Post-discharge clinic Palliative and end-of-life care in liver disease TACE – to be commenced from 2022
Samples and request forms must be labelled with time of collection as well as sample date.
The test can be ordered as an urgent request.
Contact us You and your family will be informed of the best time to telephone for news.
How to contact the ward You and your family will be informed of the best time to telephone for news.
Your first delivery of dialysis fluid and additional items will be within the next 2 weeks. This will be enough stock for 3 to 5 weeks.
Microbiology Notes CSF or blood may be used for the diagnosis of pneumococcal meningitis Blood should only be tested when pneumococcal meningitis is
Any sample displaying these factors cannot be processed and will be rejected Turnaround times Seven working days
These will be reported as contaminated samples and a repeat sample requested.
