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This page has been created to help you manage your asthma. It includes a peak flow diary for recording your daily readings, as well as space to note any symptoms you may experience. Asthma is a condition that can change unpredictably, either without warning or in response to known triggers, so regular monitoring is an important part of staying in control.
by Rachel Walker-Morecroft & Amanda Woodridge
Non-Gynae Cytopathology
For the treatment of Methotrexate-induced Renal Dysfunction.
This page gives you information about what to expect before and after a port-a-cath is inserted. It also lists the benefits and possible risks of having the device inserted.
The information given here is intended for use by healthcare professionals. Please see Lab Tests Online-UK for more general advice, links and background.
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
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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.
Your doctor has prescribed Qutenza® to treat your nerve (neuropathic) pain. Nerve pain is often described as burning, stabbing and aching or like an electric shock. This type of pain usually has no clear cause. The pain may be due to shingles, diabetic neuropathy or damage to your nerves following an accident, injury or surgery. This page gives you information about Qutenza® treatment and answers some of the commonly asked questions.
Once the planning CT scan has been completed, the planning process begins.
This page provides information about what to expect when you have Yag laser capsulotomy treatment.
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.
This page provides information about the pleural aspiration procedure.
This page gives you information about how to look after your mouth following surgery. Following this advice should allow healing to complete quickly.