Article: An audit of preoperative blood tests

Article: An audit of preoperative blood ...
Journal of Perioperative Practice;  February 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... renal dysfunction. Four blood tests are included in the NICE ... examines the utilisation of preoperative blood tests in general surgical patients ... type and grade of surgery, preoperative blood tests requested and rationale for ...

Article: Blood tests axe will hit hundreds; EXCLUSIVE ...
Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  January 24, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... of people will be hit when community blood tests are scrapped in Coventry next week ... s phlebotomy service, which offers blood tests to patients at 14 different sites across ... regularly, as well as people sent for blood tests by their GPs for diagnostic purposes ...

Article: NEW BLOOD TESTS CAN DETECT AND PREDICT HEART ...
Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI);  July 13, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... whether it's something else. New tests Blood tests have become an integral part of figuring ... new generation of cardiac-specific blood tests is promising to do even more -- not ... another important factor with cardiac blood tests. Most are easily performed in the ER ...

Article: Blood tests change will hit us both hard; CUTBACK: ...
Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  January 17, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... heartbroken" at a decision to scrap blood tests at their community health centre. The ... surgery in Remembrance Road for vital blood tests for the past three years. But now cash ... the extra people turning up for their blood tests. PCT director of primary care Peter ...

Article: How blood tests can obscure the diagnosis
The Sunday Telegraph London;  March 24, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... his fellow doctors seem unaware that blood tests are "prone to interference" and that ... presenting to hospital with chest pain whose blood tests measuring the enzyme released by injury ... received intensive chemotherapy following blood tests that showed a markedly raised level ...

Article: Union opposes blood tests, but some players say it ...
Gazette (Colorado Springs, CO);  June 12, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Association balked at the addition of blood tests because of privacy concerns, there ... Baseball Players Association opposes blood tests. Other players interviewed for this ... Brad Penny said he would not oppose blood tests if they were mandated, but he would ...

Article: OLY: No blood tests for China s swimmers
AAP Sports News (Australia);  January 12, 1999 ;     548 words ... ... Australia) 01-12-1999 OLY: No blood tests for China s swimmers BEIJING, Jan 12 ... authorities today ruled out anti-doping blood tests on their swimmers following the introduction ... steroid abuse, it would not introduce blood tests for its swimmers. "China definitely ...