Day Hospital (Ambulatory Care Unit)

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The Day Hospital and Chemotherapy service is located within the Ambulatory Care Unit (ACU) at Western Isles Hospital and provides tests and procedures to help with the assessment of a patient’s medical problems. The Day Hospital provides a wide variety of services, including:

• Cardiac Clinics
• Exercise Tolerance Tests
• Echocardiograms (often referred to cardiac echo or simply an echo is a sonogram of the heart)
• Infusion Service which includes: Chemotherapy, mAb therapies, blood transfusions, iron infusions, zoledronic acid infusions etc.
• Hereditary Haemochromatosis monitoring and Venesections.
• Monitor clinics: Ambulatory heart monitors and ambulatory blood pressure monitors.
• Blood tests
• GP Referrals
• Consultant Reviews
• Assessment
• PICC line care
• Uroflowmetry (often referred to as Flow Studies)