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Learn more about how lab and imaging tests are used to help detect (diagnose) and treat blood cancers (types of leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, myelodysplastic syndromes and myeloproliferative disorders). Includes tips to help keep track of test results and a handout with suggested questions to ask yo…

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URL: https://www.lls.org/sites/default/files/2021-05/PS41_Understanding_Lab_Imaging_0120FINAL.pdf

Corporate Author: The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

Place of Publication: White Plains, NY

Publisher: The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

Publication Date: 2020

Physical Description: PDF; 60 pages

Subject: Cancer-Diagnosis; Laboratory Tests/Values; Leukemia; Lymphoma

Abstract: Learn more about how lab and imaging tests are used to help detect (diagnose) and treat blood cancers (types of leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, myelodysplastic syndromes and myeloproliferative disorders). Includes tips to help keep track of test results and a handout with suggested questions to ask your health provider.

Language: English

Material Type: Booklet; Online

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https://www.lls.org/sites/default/files/2021-05/PS41_Understanding_Lab_Imaging_0120FINAL.pdf

Heading home after a transfusion

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Transfusion Medicine. Vancouver, BC: BC Children's and BC Women's Hospitals and Health Centre , 2022.

URL: http://www.cw.bc.ca/library/pdf/pamphlets/Heading-Home-After-Transfusion.pdf

Material Type: Handout; Online

Call Number: CW74

Provides information about symptoms to look for after a transfusion.

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URL: http://www.cw.bc.ca/library/pdf/pamphlets/Heading-Home-After-Transfusion.pdf

Corporate Author: Transfusion Medicine

Place of Publication: Vancouver, BC

Publisher: BC Children's and BC Women's Hospitals and Health Centre

Publication Date: 2022

Physical Description: PDF: 2 p.

Subject: Blood Transfusions

Abstract: Provides information about symptoms to look for after a transfusion.

Language: English

Material Type: Handout; Online

Call Number: CW74

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Spinal headache and epidural blood patch

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Department of Anesthesiology. [Vancouver, BC?]: BC Women's Hospital + Health Centre , 2021.

URL: http://www.cw.bc.ca/library/pdf/pamphlets/BCW_EpiduralBloodPatch.pdf

Material Type: Handout; Online

Many people experience a headache after birth. A spinal headache is a special type of headache that people can have after an epidural or spinal anesthetic. It is caused by a hole in the spinal fluid sac, where the epidural went in.; This handout describes symptoms of spinal headaches. It also expla…

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URL: http://www.cw.bc.ca/library/pdf/pamphlets/BCW_EpiduralBloodPatch.pdf

Corporate Author: Department of Anesthesiology

Place of Publication: [Vancouver, BC?]

Publisher: BC Women's Hospital + Health Centre

Publication Date: 2021

Physical Description: PDF file: 2 p.

Subject: Pain Control; Drug Delivery Systems; Childbirth; Drug Side Effects

Abstract: Many people experience a headache after birth. A spinal headache is a special type of headache that people can have after an epidural or spinal anesthetic. It is caused by a hole in the spinal fluid sac, where the epidural went in.; This handout describes symptoms of spinal headaches. It also explains how an epidural blood patch procedure can help. A blood patch uses your own blood to patch a hole in your spinal fluid sac.

Language: English

Material Type: Handout; Online

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http://www.cw.bc.ca/library/pdf/pamphlets/BCW_EpiduralBloodPatch.pdf