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For this period of time, you should not: drive a car, motorbike or ride a bicycle. drink alcohol. operate machinery or do anything requiring skill or judgment
If you have any allergies or have had bad reactions to any medication or other tests, please tell the nurse and/or doctor.
If you have been waiting for some time and you need food or drink, the staff will get you something to eat or drink.
Can I bathe or swim?
Please refer to latest BNF or contact Medicines Information service (Tel GRH 0300 422 6108 or CGH 0300 422 3030).
No photography or videos are allowed during the scan.
TRALI is a diagnosis made by exclusion where other causes are not apparent and there has been a recent transfusion of blood or plasma.
If specialist coagulation tests are requested, one or more aliquots may be frozen until analysis (or up to two months) at between -15 and -40°C.
or community group.
You can donate online or by cheque, raise funds on JustGiving and MuchLoved, or choose to support the fund as a business or community group.
You must NOT lock the bathroom or toilet door or make yourself inaccessible to the person looking after you.
breastfeeding, or planning to become pregnant. have kidney or liver problems.
This dressing must be changed daily or more often if it is wet.
For adults, blood taken into a 5mL gold top gel tube (or rust top for the Acute Unit) For children, blood taken into a 2mL lithium heparin tube (or a
Bronchoscopy where an endoscope is used to examine your airways if you have a cough that won’t go, or are coughing up blood.
Please refer to leaflet GHPI0455 oligospermia or azoospermia.
If your symptoms return or worsen squat or lie down again. If you know you have certain triggers, that you cannot avoid, take early precautions.
We might also give you advice or equipment to help you increase your physical activity.
Serious or frequently occurring risks If a biopsy is taken or a polyp removed it can lead to bleeding or a perforation (a tear) of the bowel.
The laboratories cannot discuss treatment, give test results or any personal information directly to patients or patient's relatives.