Anaesthesia explained
This booklet is designed to be read in the run up to surgery and can be viewed wherever you wish on your computer, tablet or phone. It explains how the…
Our emergency departments are currently extremely busy, and you may face a long wait to be seen. More information is available on alternative services.
This booklet is designed to be read in the run up to surgery and can be viewed wherever you wish on your computer, tablet or phone. It explains how the…
Malignant hyperthermia (MH), also called malignant hyperpyrexia, is a rare condition that runs in some families. In people who are affected, some anaesthetic drugs and gases can cause a rapid…
…the role of an operating department practitioner has had many other names, but they have always played a huge role in our operating theatres running efficiently and ensuring the patient…
If you feel that you need to rush to the toilet to open your bowels, you may benefit from retrain your bowels and gain confidence. This exercise helps you gain…
…Lead, and Ruth Creasy, Critical Care Outreach Sister. To have worked for the NHS for 40 years shows a significant level of dedication to serving our patients and local communities,…
…are driving the ongoing success. Our team is made up of enhanced recovery after surgery nurses, urology cancer nurse specialists, anaesthetists, operating department practitioners, scrub nurses, theatre runners, theatre matrons,…
The trust’s Partnership Forum marks its first anniversary this month, celebrating a year of bringing colleagues together from across the trust. The forum members discuss how the trust runs and…
…consultants to source alternatives and revise protocols. I also sit on the regional panel for IVIG, run a lipid clinic, support the chemical pathology consultant, am the partnership forum lead,…
This leaflet explains the special rules in the Mental Health Act 1983 about the use of electro-convulsive therapy (ECT) to treat mental disorder.
…were supported by a daily phone call from a specialist nurse. The ‘virtual’ Covid ward is run by a team of specialist respiratory nurses who monitor the progress of patients…