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Lung Cancer
Last updated on Thursday, June 13, 2024
Our local lung cancer team consists of local chest physicians, specialist nurses, radiologists, pathologists with close links to Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology and Hospice services. We meet weekly as a team to discuss on-going management of all patients unde...
read morePneumonia
Last updated on Friday, September 19, 2025
What is the study about? Pneumonia is an inflammation of one or both lungs, usually caused by infection. Around 1 in 20 patients (5%) who are admitted to hospital with pneumonia have a heart attack or stroke within three months. Aspirin has been used for decades to reduce the chance of having...
read moreAdvanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) course
Last updated on Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Learning Outcomes After attending this course, you should be able to: Demonstrate the core principles of primary and secondary patient assessment Rapidly establish priorities in trauma patients Deliver care during the primary and secondary surveys Confidently practice a wide range of skill...
read moreLocal Anaesthetic
Last updated on Tuesday, April 10, 2018
A local anaesthetic is a type of painkilling medication that is used to numb areas of the body during some surgical procedures. You stay awake when you have a local anaesthetic but in some cases the local anaesthetic can be combined with sedation. How does local anaesthetic work? Local anae...
read moreDr Azza Abdelrahman, Consultant Biomedical Scientist
Last updated on Tuesday, February 11, 2025
In school I loved biology, I was fascinated by microorganisms, and I knew I wanted to go into medicine so I took a degree it in. In the fourth year we had microbiology as a subject and I found my passion. Microbiology is so variable. One organism can cause a multitude of infections, and one infe...
read moreDiabetes
Last updated on Monday, October 5, 2020
Poor control of blood sugar at the time of an operation is known to increase the risk of poor wound healing and infections. This could delay your recovery and may even result in the failure of a joint replacement operation. Target is blood sugar between 4-10mmol/l and HbA1c less than 69mmol/mol,...
read moreAnaemia
Last updated on Monday, October 5, 2020
Anaemia happens when the number of healthy red blood cells in your body is too low. Red blood cells carry oxygen to all of the body’s tissues, so a low red blood cell count indicates that the amount of oxygen in your blood is lower than it should be. Anaemia can be due to many causes but a commo...
read moreOne stop haematuria clinic
Last updated on Monday, February 8, 2021
Men and women who have noticed blood in their urine, or those that the GP as detected microscopic blood in the urine on dipstick testing can be referred to this clinic (based on certain criteria). The patients will undergo an initial triage by a urology specialist nurse followed by requesting ima...
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