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If you have attended REACCT in the past and would like a refresher on the principles of carbohydrate counting, or if you wish to learn about it in your
after children with tummy problems in their general paediatric clinics, but can refer onto the more specialist clinics, or seek advice from Dr Rushforth, if
If required more urgently for clinical reasons, please contact the duty biochemist to discuss.
If possible vitamin supplements should be stopped 2 days prior to sampling as the vitamins can appear in the blood up to 32 hours post ingestion.
Non incidental findings such as red and white blood cells, casts or non-bacterial infections such as candida will be reported if seen but this is not the
For adults, blood taken into a 4mL EDTA tube sent immediately to the laboratory on ice (send 2 tubes on ice if full gut hormone profile required).
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In particular flecainide should be avoided if any history of MI, heart failure or structural heart disease.
If unavoidable, samples can be stored refrigerated overnight. Required information Relevant clinical details.
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Cancer Care Map website allows you to find cancer support services at your chosen location Cancer Prehabilitation Access the cancer prehabilitation team if
Questions you may find helpful to ask your clinician if cancer is suspected Diagnosis Where is the suspected cancer at the moment?
Please list the tests of particular interest so that some priority can be given to analysis if plasma volumes are small.
If unavoidable, samples can be stored refrigerated overnight. Required information Relevant clinical details, including reason for the request.
Turnaround Time Urgent Factor VIII levels: within 4 hours Routine: within 2 weeks Please contact the laboratory in the first instance if urgent factor
following factors are known to significantly affect the performance of the examination or the interpretation of the results: lipaemia, sample clotted (if
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NICE recommends that the dose should be reviewed if eGFR less than 45 mL/minute/1.73 m2 and to avoid if eGFR less than 30 mL/minute/1.73 m2.
If results are needed more quickly on clinical grounds then the healthcare professional should contact the duty biochemist before taking the sample.