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This guidance relates to the management of peripheral noradrenaline (NA) infusions. It includes: safety profile, indications for peripheral NA, monitoring of patients on peripheral NA, practical advice and finally the management of extravasation
Adult
EDTA blood. (No patient preparation or special handling required).
This page gives you information about the carbohydrate counting and Diabetes Education options for people with Type 1 Diabetes.
Serum - paired samples not normally required
This page explains what a midwifery-led birth unit is and the options available to you in Gloucestershire. If you have no major medical conditions and have a straightforward pregnancy, the National Institute for Health & Care Excellence (NICE) recommend that the safest and best place for you to have your baby is in a midwifery led birth unit. For more information follow the link at the end of this page.
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You have been advised to have a gastroscopy, which you may also have heard being called an endoscopy or OGD (meaning an oesophageal-gastro-duodenoscopy). A diagnostic gastroscopy will help us to investigate the cause of your symptoms.
During your stay on the ward, you may be moved from the monitored bays to one of our side rooms to enable safe and effective nursing care or into the bays However, on the very rare occasion when the hospital is full to capacity there is a chance that we will make a clinical decision to move a patient into the corridor. We try to avoid this if we can and it will only happen when needed to facilitate care for patients. This is called the boarding policy.
Post-transfusion purpura (PTP) is a delayed adverse reaction to a blood or platelet transfusion that occurs when the body has produced antibodies to the donor transfused platelet antigens. These antibodies destroy the patient's platelets leading to a rapid decline in platelet count. PTP usually presents 5–12 days after transfusion.
Dr Balapatabendi completed her paediatric and diabetes/endocrinology training in Leicester, mainly at the University Hospital of Leicester.
This page provides information about the pleural aspiration procedure.
For adults, blood taken into a 5mL gold top tube (or rust top for the Acute Unit)
Building work for the new IGIS Hub at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital will cause some disruption around the hospital site at times.
Latest on staffing challenges and the impact on maternity services at Stroud Maternity and Cheltenham Aveta
Ward 3B specialises in treating trauma and orthopaedic patients and is located on the third floor of the Tower Block at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital.
Ward 7B specialises in treating renal (kidney) patients and is located on the seventh floor of the Tower Block at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital.
Our ophthalmologists carry out a wide range of treatments and surgical procedures for conditions of the eye such as cataracts, glaucoma and retinal problems.
The NHS in Gloucestershire joins the rest of the country in sending our deepest sympathies to the Royal Family following the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
