Posts Tagged ‘Glomerular Filtration Rate’
August 18th, 2009 | 
Author: A Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR) measures how well kidneys filter your blood. A lovely radiologist called Sarah greeted me. My weight and height were taken. Sarah put a canular into my left arm. It is from this that the blood samples will be taken. A small amount of Heparin was used to stop any blood clotting in the canular which would interfere with the drawing of the samples.
In my right arm she put a “butterfly IV canular” into which she injected a very small amount of special radioactive tracer (probably less radioactive amount than having a normal x-ray). The canular in my right arm was then removed. Read the rest of this entry »
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