Appointments for Robert Deutscher
Sunday, May 14 9:30am – Check in at the Emergency Admitting desk of the Rockyview General Hospital
10:00am - Holter Monitor Test - This is a continuous digital recording of your EKG for 24 hours. You will be instructed as to what activities you may or may not do during testing.
Cardiovascular Lab, Rockyview General Hospital
Monday, May 15 Return Holter Monitor
Tuesday, May 16 9:30am - Pharmacy Teaching (Mobilization) – Meeting wiour pharmacist to explain anti-nausea regime, Neupogen, and Chemotherapy.
11:30am – Bloodwork- Come to the BMT Clinic to pick up requisitions for blood work at the lab.
Laboratory, Special Services Building.
12:30pm - Transplant Unit Orientation – Information session and tour of unit 57.
Unit 57B, Special Services Building.
Wednesday, May 17
8:30am - Pulmonary Function
Test (PFT) -
No preparation required. Assess how well your lungs work by blowing strenuously
into a machine. Baseline test.
PFT
Lab, room EG3, Ground Floor, Main Hospital.
9:30am - Electrocardiogram (ECG/EKG)- No preparation required. Tests the electrical impulses of the heart. Baseline test.
Cardiovascular Lab, Main Hospital.
10:30am
- Panorex X-ray
-
Panoramic X-ray of your teeth needed before you see the dentist.
Chest X-Ray - To check your lungs for problems or disease.
Sinus X-Ray - Examination of the sinus spaces. Baseline examination.
Radiology Department, Special Services Building.
12:00pm - Echocardiogram - Ultrasound used to visualize the motion of the heart. Baseline test to evaluate function of the heart.
Northwest Cardio-Diagnostics, Room 707, South Tower.
1:40pm - Dental Consult - X-rays required before seeing the dentist. Specialty dentist trained in complications related to transplant.
Dental Clinic, Special Services Building.
Thursday, May 18 2:00pm - Dietician Consult
BMT Clinic
3:00pm - History and Physical Exam wiDr. A. Chaudhry.
BMT Clinic
Tuesday, May 23rd Start 24 Hour Urine Collection
Wednesday, May 24 Return 24-Hour urine collection to the lab.
10:00am - Bloodwork
Laboratory, Special Services Building.
1:00pm - Central Line Insertion – Central Venous Catheter (CVC) is a large catheter that is inserted into a large vein. Nothing to eat or drink for 3 hour prior to insertion.
Radiology Department, Special Services Building.
BMT Clinic - Recovery
Thursday, May 25 10:00am - Interview WiApheresis Nurse - Meeting to discuss stem cell collection.
Apheresis Room, Unit 47B, Special Services Building.
11:00am - Dressing Change and Neupogen injection
BMT Clinic
2nd injection Neupogen at home
Friday, May 26 10:00am - Neupogen injection, CVC Dressing Change
BMT Clinic
10:pm Neupogen at home
Saturday, May 27 10:00am - Neupogen injection, CVC Dressing Change
Unit 57B, Special Services Building
10:pm Neupogen at home
Sunday, May 28 10:00am, pm - Neupogen injections – Given at home
Monday, May 29 7:15am - Bloodwork and Line Care CVC line flushed, chest xrays
BMT Clinic blood counts too low for apheresis today
Tuesday, May 30 7:15am - Bloodwork and Line Care CVC line flushed), suture removed from catheter entrance site
BMT Clinic
Stem Cell
Collection (apheresis) - Blood counts
still too low for apheresis. Go to Plan B -
New Calendar
Tuesday, June 6 10:00am - Bloodwork and Line Care
BMT Clinic
10:30am - RN Consult
(Transplant) –
Booklet review done with RN.
BMT Clinic, Tom
Baker Cancer Centre.
Wednesday, June 7
Admission to Unit 57 for Transplant - Check in at admitting between
8:00 – 10:00 am,
Thursday,
June 8 High Dose Chemotherapy
- Melphalan. Given over 1
day.
Unit 57,
Special Services Building.
Friday,
June 9
Day 0 –
Stem cells given back
Unit 57, Special Services Building.
Friday,
June 16
Day +7 –
Neupogen given daily until counts recover.
Unit 57, Special Services Building.
Friday,
June 23rd Day + 14 –
Start looking at possible discharge dates from hospital.
Unit 57,
Special Services Building.