Patient Information Leaflets

The homecare medicines service delivers ongoing medicines supplies and provides associated care directly to your home while you are under the care of a hospital consultant.

This injection can be helpful in reducing pain in the groin area. The main reason for doing this block is to reduce pain.

As visitors you play an important role in keeping the hospital free of infection by following these guidelines.

This aims to give simple, practical information to people whose relative, friend or colleague is admitted to our critical care unit.

The Walton Centre works with partners, patients, carers and the wider NHS as part of a collaboration called the Neuro Network. Through this partnership, we have created a new type of specialist neurology nurse called Integrated Neurology Nurse Specialists (INNS).

An intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH) is a serious condition caused when a blood vessel within the brain bleeds leaking blood into the brain tissue. It is also known as a haemorrhagic stroke.

Intrathecal phenol or alcohol injection is a nerve block.

IVIg is recommended for use in Guillain-Barré syndrome, multifocal motor neuropathy and chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP). 

What is an intraventricular haemorrhage (IVH)? This is bleeding inside or around the ventricles which are the fluid compartments of the brain

You are having this investigation as your consultant requires more information following surface EEG recordings.