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Emergency Information 
Pleural Care Clinic   at
Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre
Specialty: Pulmonology
Connect Care Department: RED RDHC PLEURAL CARE CL
Estimated time to routine appointment: Within 2 weeks
Alberta Health Services - Central
SERVICE DESCRIPTION
Clinic offers symptom relief to cancer patients with shortness of breath due to malignant pleural effusions. Clinic for patients with presumed or confirmed malignant pleural effusion, (fluid around the lungs caused by cancer) specializing in Indwelling Pleural Catheters (Pleurx) to help drain the fluid.
Clinic offers symptom relief to cancer patients with shortness of breath due to malignant pleural effusions. Clinic for patients with presumed or confirmed malignant pleural effusion, (fluid around the lungs caused by cancer) specializing in Indwelling Pleural Catheters (Pleurx) to help drain the fluid.
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
Eligibility for the clinic is a Pleural Effusion that has been tapped by thoracentesis and the fluid sent for Cytology, LD, Total Protein, Albumin, glucose, culture or gram stain and cell count. The patient must have an underlying malignancy or suspected malignancy.
Eligibility for the clinic is a Pleural Effusion that has been tapped by thoracentesis and the fluid sent for Cytology, LD, Total Protein, Albumin, glucose, culture or gram stain and cell count. The patient must have an underlying malignancy or suspected malignancy.
Referral instructions for primary care, community care, private
providers etc. who do not send referrals via Connect Care.
REFERRAL PROCESS - FOR NON-CONNECT CARE USERS
Complete the referral form and fax it to the service using the contact information in this profile.
If urgent, mark referral as URGENT and call Nurse Coordinator to discuss.
Complete the referral form and fax it to the service using the contact information in this profile.
If urgent, mark referral as URGENT and call Nurse Coordinator to discuss.
REFERRAL PROCESS - FOR CONNECT CARE USERS
Send an Internal Referral using the Ambulatory Referral Order to Pulmonology, type RED RDHC PLEURAL CARE CL in the “To Department” section and complete order.
Send an Internal Referral using the Ambulatory Referral Order to Pulmonology, type RED RDHC PLEURAL CARE CL in the “To Department” section and complete order.
ADDITIONAL SERVICE DETAILS
Referrals are triaged accordingly by the Nurse Coordinator for the clinic.

Please note that the patient must be notified of referral prior to submission to the Pleural Care Clinic.

*Note; It is the referring physician's responsibility to arrange for thoracentesis if needed prior to initial Pleural Care Clinic appointment. Please order chemistry (LD, total protein, albumin, glucose and C&S) as well as cytology, if thoracentesis is done.
Referrals are triaged accordingly by the Nurse Coordinator for the clinic.

Please note that the patient must be notified of referral prior to submission to the Pleural Care Clinic.

*Note; It is the referring physician's responsibility to arrange for thoracentesis if needed prior to initial Pleural Care Clinic appointment. Please order chemistry (LD, total protein, albumin, glucose and C&S) as well as cytology, if thoracentesis is done.
COMMUNICATION PROCESS
  • Referral receipt to referring source within 7 days.
  • Acceptance via appointment details or wait list status letter to referring source and patient within 14 days.
  • Wait list status update every 90 days.
  • Appointment outcome to referral source within 30 days.
 
REFERRAL PHONE
403-309-2887 Nurse Coordinator
REFERRAL FAX
403-348-8824
CLICK + TO VIEW REFERRAL GUIDELINES
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Routine Reason for Referral
Access Targets convey the clinically appropriate timeframe patients should be seen within, by reason for referral and priority level.
Access Target
Required Information/Investigations
Investigation Timing
Additional Details
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Dyspnea
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month
Past medical history
 
Within 1 month
Any other pertinent information
 
Current
Thoracentesis with pleural fluid send for LD, Total Protein, Albumin, cell count, glucose and cytology
 
Within 1 month
What treatments are currently being used or planned
 
Current
Is patient anticoagulated? If yes, identify agent
 
Current
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Pleural effusion due to malignant neoplastic disease
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month
Past medical history
 
Within 1 month
Any other pertinent information
 
Current
Thoracentesis with pleural fluid send for LD, Total Protein, Albumin, cell count, glucose and cytology
 
Within 1 month
What treatments are currently being used or planned
 
Current
Is patient anticoagulated? If yes, identify agent
 
Current
Confirmed on chest x-ray or CT
 
Current
Indicate cancer diagnosis; primary/metastic
 
Current
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Thoracentesis
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month
Past medical history
 
Within 1 month
Any other pertinent information
 
Current
Thoracentesis with pleural fluid send for LD, Total Protein, Albumin, cell count, glucose and cytology
 
Within 1 month
What treatments are currently being used or planned
 
Current
Is patient anticoagulated? If yes, identify agent
 
Current
Indicated date of, amount drained
 
Current
*Note: It is the referring physician's responsibility to arrange for thoracentesis if needed prior to initial Pleural Clinic appointment. Please order chemistry (LD, total protein, albumin, glucose and C&S) as well as cytology, if thoracentesis done
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
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MISSED APPOINTMENT GUIDELINES
Please be aware that if 3 appointments are missed without reason, we will require a new referral to be sent from the referring provider.
Please be aware that if 3 appointments are missed without reason, we will require a new referral to be sent from the referring provider.
 
HOURS OF OPERATION
Monday: 8:00 am - 3:30 pm
Tuesday: 8:00 am - 3:30 pm
Wednesday: 8:00 am - 3:30 pm
Thursday: 8:00 am - 3:30 pm
Friday: 8:00 am - 3:30 pm
Description:
Closed weekends and Statutory holidays.
   
 
ADDRESS
3942 50A Avenue
Red Deer Alberta
T4N 4E7
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INSTRUCTIONS
  • Bring your Alberta health care card and a piece of government issued photo ID.
  • Check in directly at Respiratory Clinic reception 15 minutes prior to your scheduled appointment time. (there is no need to check in at admitting for your appointment)
  • You may bring a family member or significant other during your consultation.
  • Bring your Alberta health care card and a piece of government issued photo ID.
  • Check in directly at Respiratory Clinic reception 15 minutes prior to your scheduled appointment time. (there is no need to check in at admitting for your appointment)
  • You may bring a family member or significant other during your consultation.
 
DIRECTIONS
Red Deer Regional Hospital is accessed via Gaetz Avenue or Taylor Drive at 43rd Street.
From the main doors of the hospital take the main hallway towards Emergency. Turn right at the Respiratory department sign (ceiling). The department will be on the left hand side approximately half way down the hallway.
From the Emergency entrance turn left and follow the hallway down to the department on your right hand side, half way down.
Red Deer Regional Hospital is accessed via Gaetz Avenue or Taylor Drive at 43rd Street.
From the main doors of the hospital take the main hallway towards Emergency. Turn right at the Respiratory department sign (ceiling). The department will be on the left hand side approximately half way down the hallway.
From the Emergency entrance turn left and follow the hallway down to the department on your right hand side, half way down.
 
PHONE
403-348-8808
FAX
403-348-8824
 
PARKING INSTRUCTIONS
Paid underground parking or above ground parkade.
Street parking is available in the surrounding area of the hospital.
Paid underground parking or above ground parkade.
Street parking is available in the surrounding area of the hospital.
 
EMAIL
VIRTUAL APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
Virtual appointments are for pre-existing patients only for follow-up purposes only.
Virtual appointments are for pre-existing patients only for follow-up purposes only.
 
 
WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBILITY
Yes

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A Healthcare Service moves from one location to another. In this case the IA Healthcare Service@Location record will be made defunct (non-current) and a new Healthcare Service@Location record will be created with a current status. In this scenario the captured referral guidelines in ARD can become "orphaned" as they are not attached to any current IA healthcare service.

Categories of non-current or orphaned referral guidelines: INDIVIDUAL and COMMON.
The REFERRAL GUIDELINES section of the profile has the prefix INDIVIDUAL or COMMON to help you choose the method below when transferring referral guidelines from a non-current Healthcare Service@Location to a current healthcare service@location.

Individual referral process
  1. Click on a non-current (Red) Healthcare Service@Location at the bottom of the All Locations list.
  2. The non-current referral info is displayed with the link Copy this Referral Process to another Healthcare Service@Location link on the upper right hand corner. Click on the copy link.
  3. Choose a current location (Green or Brown) from the All Locations list. This will be the Healthcare Service@Location you are pasting the referral info into.
  4. The system will display the Edit Referral Info screen populated with the referral info from the non-current Healthcare Service@Location you viewed in the first step.
  5. Click Save and the referral info is transferred from the non-current Healthcare Service@Location to the current one.
  6. Repeat these steps for each Healthcare Service@Location that needs attention.

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Case 1: At least 1 current Healthcare Service@Location with common referral info is with current status for this healthcare service; One or more Healthcare Healthcare Service@Locations where replaced by new one.
  1. Click on any current Healthcare Service@Location whether it has referral info (Green) or not (Brown).
  2. The healthcare service location opens in the Edit Referral Info screen populated with the current common referral info.
  3. Save it. 
  4. All locations will be updated with the common referral information, including all the locations that don't have referral info yet (Brown). The non-current referrals (Red) will also be updated.
Case 2:  All Healthcare Healthcare Service@Locations for a healthcare service are set to a non-current status and replaced by new ones. In this case there is no current additional referral info to copy from, so the only alternative is to pick up the non-current common referral process (Red). Follow the steps described in the section Individual Referral Process above to copy/paste the non-current common referral info to the current healthcare service locations.
Generally we want to replicate current common referral info to new or replaced healthcare service locations. We only resort to copying non-current common referral info if there is no other option.

Remember: Some fields can be location specific with the common referral process:
Parking Instructions, Directions, Parking Map, Wait Time, Referral Phone or Referral Fax.
To update these items you have to edit each Healthcare Service@Location separately.

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