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This page gives information for a person living with dementia and their carer about what to expect when visiting an Outpatient Department (OPD) at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. This page will also give you information about services within Gloucestershire to support you and the person you care for living with dementia.

This page provides information for patients who may need to have an indwelling pleural catheter.

This page aims to help guide you through your recovery from gynaecological surgery.

This page gives you information about the reversal of Hartmann’s procedure. It explains what the procedure involves and some of the common problems that patients may experience with it.

Your doctor has prescribed a blood thinning medication for you to take called heparin. This medication is developed from the lining of the small intestine of pigs. This page gives you information about the medication and the Muslim and Jewish teachings relevant to its use. Individuals following a vegan lifestyle or avoiding pigbased products for any other reason may also find this information useful.

The triquetrum is one of the eight bones of the wrist joint, situated on the pinkie side of the wrist

You have been referred this page because one of the blood tests taken when you came to the Pre-Operative Assessment Clinic shows that you are anaemic and/or iron and vitamin levels in your blood are low.

As of this morning (Tuesday 14 May), if you’re over the age of 18 you will be able to view your appointment letters and details in our brand new Patient Portal.

This page gives you information about the medication duloxetine which you have been prescribed to reduce the pain of vulvodynia. Vulvodynia is pain in the vulva (area around the outside of the vagina) that lasts at least 3 months but does not have a specific cause.

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 has been written by the Insulin Pump Therapy Team to standardise the information given to patients about Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion (CSII) pump therapy in Gloucestershire. We advise that you and/or your family read the booklet PDF attached to the bottom of this page and keep it in a safe place for reference when needed.

PTH can be assayed during a parathyroidectomy on an urgent basis (i.e. intra-operative PTH levels) however this must be booked with the laboratory at least a week in advance. Please contact the duty biochemist for further details if access to this service is required.

An ERCP has been arranged to either help us find out the cause or for the management of your symptoms. This page gives you information about the ERCP procedure and the possible risks involved.

This page gives you information about having a steroid joint injection and explains what the procedure involves.

This page gives you information about acute glaucoma, the symptoms and the treatment given.

You have been referred this page because your child has had a suspected seizure while their temperature was normal. Sometimes young children can experience convulsions (seizures) as a result of an uncontrolled high temperature, these are called febrile convulsions.

by Dr Felicity Hughes

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