Treatments and tests A-Z

Aged care

• Community-based subacute care
• Day therapy units – subacute care
• Patient stories – subacute care
• Subacute care
• Transition Care Program (TCP)

Alcohol

• Women and Newborn Drug and Alcohol Service (WANDAS)

Allergies

• Adrenaline auto-injectors
• Anaphylaxis

Allied health & health sciences

• Exercise physiology
• Podiatry
• Speech pathology

Amputee

• Specialist rehabilitation services

Anaphylaxis

• Adrenaline auto-injectors
• Anaphylaxis

Angiogram

• Angiogram

Anorexia nervosa

• Centre for Clinical Interventions
• Eating Disorders Program
• Therapy for eating disorders

Anxiety

• Alprazolam
• Centre for Clinical Interventions

Art therapy

• Art therapy for mental health recovery
• Creative Expression Centre for Arts Therapy (CECAT)
• Creative Expression Centre for Arts Therapy (CECAT) – classes and programs
• Creative Expression Centre for Arts Therapy (CECAT) – location and contact details

Arthritis

• Podiatry

Arthrogram

• Arthrogram

Arthroscopy

• Arthroscopy of the knee

Assertive communication

• Centre for Clinical Interventions

Asthma

• Asthma medications and inhaler devices
• How to use an accuhaler
• How to use an autohaler
• How to use an inhaler (puffer) with large volume spacer
• How to use an inhaler (puffer) with small volume spacer
• How to use a turbuhaler

Atrial fibrillation

• Warfarin

Bipolar disorder

• Centre for Clinical Interventions

Birth

• Breech presentation and turning the baby
• Epidurals for childbirth

Bladder

• Continence management and advice

Blood

• Intravenous cannula (IV)
• Patient blood management
• Patient blood management – consent
• Pregnancy and breastfeeding while taking warfarin
• Stopping warfarin
• Warfarin
• Warfarin and other medicines
• Warfarin and risk of bleeding
• Warfarin safety
• Your lifestyle choices with warfarin

Body dysmorphic disorder

• Centre for Clinical Interventions

Bone fractures and dislocations

• Caring for your broken limb before surgery
• Halo rings, halo cervical traction and vests
• Ilizarov frame
• Jewett brace
• Philadelphia neck collar

Bowel

• Bowel cancer screening
• Continence management and advice

Breast screening

• Screening mammography with BreastScreen WA

Breastfeeding

• Pregnancy and breastfeeding while taking warfarin

Bulimia

• Centre for Clinical Interventions
• Eating Disorders Program
• Therapy for eating disorders

Burns

• Caring for minor facial burn
• Caring for your healed burn
• Caring for your hydrocolloid dressing
• Oiling your dressing for removal

Cancer

• Cancer Nurse Coordination Service
• Cancer treatment
• Cervical screening
• Cervical Screening Registry
• Cervical Screening Test
• Colonoscopy
• Colposcopy
• Familial Cancer Registry
• Hysterectomy
• Psychological support for people affected by cancer
• Thoracic cancer support
• Understanding your Cervical Screening Test results
• Where can I have a Cervical Screening Test?

Cast

• Caring for your plaster cast

Cataract

• Cataract surgery

Cataract surgery

• Cataract surgery

Catheter

• Caring for your catheter
• General hygiene tips for your catheter
• Troubleshooting for your catheter
• What is a catheter?
• Your indwelling urinary catheter
• Your lifestyle with a catheter
• Your self-intermittent catheter
• Your suprapubic catheter

Cervical cancer

• Cervical screening
• Cervical Screening Registry
• Cervical Screening Test
• Colposcopy
• HPV vaccine
• Hysterectomy
• Understanding your Cervical Screening Test results
• Where can I have a Cervical Screening Test?

Cervical screening

• Cervical screening
• Cervical Screening Registry
• Cervical Screening Test
• Colposcopy
• HPV vaccine
• Hysterectomy
• Understanding your Cervical Screening Test results
• Where can I have a Cervical Screening Test?

Chemotherapy

• Cancer treatment

Clinical psychology

• Clinical psychology

Colonoscopy

• Colonoscopy

Contact tracing

• Contact tracing
• Contact tracing for sexually transmitted infections and blood-borne viruses
• Contact tracing for tuberculosis (TB)

Continence

• Caring for your catheter
• Continence management and advice
• General hygiene tips for your catheter
• Troubleshooting for your catheter
• What is a catheter?
• Your indwelling urinary catheter
• Your lifestyle with a catheter
• Your self-intermittent catheter
• Your suprapubic catheter

CT angiography

• CT angiography

CT scan

• CT scan – computerised tomography
• MRI scan – magnetic resonance imaging
• X-ray

Decolonisation

• Decolonisation treatment for people with MRSA

Deep vein thrombosis

• Warfarin

Depression

• Centre for Clinical Interventions

Diabetes

• Diabetes services
• Insulin and diabetes
• Podiatry

Dilatation and curettage (D&C)

• Dilatation and curettage (D&C)

Doppler ultrasound

• Doppler ultrasound

Dressings

• Caring for your hydrocolloid dressing

Drugs

• Alprazolam
• Women and Newborn Drug and Alcohol Service (WANDAS)

Eating disorders

• Centre for Clinical Interventions
• Eating Disorders Program
• Therapy for eating disorders

Elective surgery

• Elective surgery

Electronic prescriptions

• Electronic prescriptions for medication

Emergency medical

• Emergency and crisis
• Health care options
• Mental health emergency

Emotions

• Centre for Clinical Interventions

Exercise and physical activity

• Exercise physiology

Exercise physiology

• Exercise physiology

Eye conditions

• Cataract surgery

Falls

• Specialist rehabilitation services

Fine needle aspiration

• Lung or chest needle biopsy – fine needle aspiration

First aid and medical

• Emergency and crisis
• GPs
• Health care options
• How is the cost of medicines to consumers determined?
• Pharmacy
• Self-care

Food safety

• Adrenaline auto-injectors

Gastroscopy

• Gastroscopy (endoscopy)

Genetic conditions

• Genetic Services of Western Australia
• Screening tests in the first 3 months of pregnancy
• Screening tests in the second 3 months of pregnancy
• Your baby’s newborn bloodspot screening test

Genetic tests

• Diagnostic tests for your baby during pregnancy
• Familial Cancer Registry
• Genetic Services of Western Australia
• Tests for pregnant women
• Tests for you and your baby during pregnancy
• Tests for your baby during pregnancy

Genital warts

• HPV vaccine

Giving birth

• Epidurals for childbirth

Glasses

• Spectacle Subsidy Scheme

GPs – general practitioners

• Accessing a GP after hours
• GPs
• Health care options
• Overview of the WA health system

Having a baby

• Centre for Clinical Interventions
• Diagnostic tests for your baby during pregnancy
• Diet, supplements and medications during pregnancy
• Epidurals for childbirth
• Pregnancy and breastfeeding while taking warfarin
• Screening tests in the first 3 months of pregnancy
• Screening tests in the second 3 months of pregnancy
• Tests for pregnant women
• Tests for you and your baby during pregnancy
• Tests for your baby during pregnancy
• Ultrasound during pregnancy
• Women and Newborn Drug and Alcohol Service (WANDAS)
• Your baby’s newborn bloodspot screening test

Health checks

• Health care options

Heart attack

• Warfarin

Heart conditions

• Cardiac rehabilitation
• Common medical procedures for heart conditions
• Common medical tests to diagnose heart conditions

Hernia

• Incisional hernia
• Inguinal Hernia

HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus)

• Contact tracing for sexually transmitted infections and blood-borne viruses

Hospital treatments

• Clinical psychology
• Community-based subacute care
• Day therapy units – subacute care
• During your hospital stay
• Giving informed consent in hospital
• Going home after a stay in hospital
• Going to hospital
• Intensive care units (ICUs)
• Overview of the WA health system
• Patient stories – subacute care
• Preparing for your stay in hospital
• Silver Chain Home Hospital
• Specialist rehabilitation services
• Subacute care
• Subacute care in hospitals
• Transition Care Program (TCP)
• Your rights and responsibilities as a patient

HPV vaccine

• HPV vaccine

Human papilloma virus (HPV)

• Cervical screening
• Cervical Screening Test
• HPV vaccine
• Understanding your Cervical Screening Test results
• Where can I have a Cervical Screening Test?

Hyperbaric treatment

• Hyperbaric treatment

Hysterectomy

• Hysterectomy

Hysteroscopy

• Hysteroscopy

Immunisation

• HPV vaccine
• Immunisation in pregnancy (video transcript)

Incontinence

• Caring for your catheter
• Continence management and advice
• General hygiene tips for your catheter
• Troubleshooting for your catheter
• What is a catheter?
• Your indwelling urinary catheter
• Your lifestyle with a catheter
• Your self-intermittent catheter
• Your suprapubic catheter

Inhalers

• Asthma medications and inhaler devices
• How to use an accuhaler
• How to use an autohaler
• How to use an inhaler (puffer) with large volume spacer
• How to use an inhaler (puffer) with small volume spacer
• How to use a turbuhaler

Insulin

• Insulin and diabetes

Intensive care units (ICUs)

• Intensive care units (ICUs)

Intravenous cannula

• Intravenous cannula (IV)

Intravenous pyelogram (IVP)

• Intravenous pyelogram (IVP)

Kidney conditions

• Renal biopsy

Labour

• Epidurals for childbirth

Medications

• Alprazolam
• Asthma medications and inhaler devices
• Electronic prescriptions for medication
• How is the cost of medicines to consumers determined?
• Medications to treat tuberculosis
• Pregnancy and breastfeeding while taking warfarin
• Stopping warfarin
• Warfarin
• Warfarin and other medicines
• Warfarin and risk of bleeding
• Warfarin safety
• Your lifestyle choices with warfarin

Mental health

• Alprazolam
• Art therapy for mental health recovery
• Centre for Clinical Interventions
• Clinical psychology
• Creative Expression Centre for Arts Therapy (CECAT)
• Creative Expression Centre for Arts Therapy (CECAT) – classes and programs
• Creative Expression Centre for Arts Therapy (CECAT) – location and contact details
• Mental health emergency
• Psychological support for people affected by cancer
• Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS)

Mental illness

• Clinical psychology
• Eating Disorders Program
• Mental health emergency
• Mental illness treatments and medications
• Therapy for eating disorders

Migrant health

• Centre for Clinical Interventions
• Humanitarian Entrant Health Service (HEHS)

MRI

• MRI scan – magnetic resonance imaging
• Radiation risks of X-rays and scans

MRSA

• Decolonisation treatment for people with MRSA

Myelogram

• Myelogram

Nuclear medicine

• Nuclear medicine scans
• Radiation risks of X-rays and scans
• Technetium scans

Outpatients

• Manage My Care
• Outpatient Direct

Palliative care

• Subacute care in hospitals

Panic

• Alprazolam
• Centre for Clinical Interventions

Parenting

• Centre for Clinical Interventions
• Your baby’s newborn bloodspot screening test

Patients

• During your hospital stay
• Giving informed consent in hospital
• Going home after a stay in hospital
• Going to hospital
• Preparing for your stay in hospital
• Your rights and responsibilities as a patient

Perfectionism

• Centre for Clinical Interventions

PET scan – positron emission tomography

• PET scan – positron emission tomography

Pharmacy

• Health care options
• Pharmacy

Podiatry

• Podiatry

Postnatal depression

• Centre for Clinical Interventions

Post-traumatic stress disorder

• Centre for Clinical Interventions

Pregnancy

• Breech presentation and turning the baby
• Diagnostic tests for your baby during pregnancy
• Diet, supplements and medications during pregnancy
• Immunisation in pregnancy (video transcript)
• Pregnancy and breastfeeding while taking warfarin
• Screening tests in the first 3 months of pregnancy
• Screening tests in the second 3 months of pregnancy
• Tests for pregnant women
• Tests for you and your baby during pregnancy
• Tests for your baby during pregnancy

Pregnancy and birth

• Breech presentation and turning the baby

Prescriptions

• Electronic prescriptions for medication

Procrastination

• Centre for Clinical Interventions

Prostheses

• Western Australian Limb Service for Amputees (WALSA)

Psychology

• Clinical psychology

Radiation

• Chest X-ray
• Radiation risks of X-rays and scans
• X-ray

Radiotherapy

• Cancer treatment

Refugee health

• Centre for Clinical Interventions
• Humanitarian Entrant Health Service (HEHS)

Rehabilitation

• Cardiac rehabilitation
• Community-based subacute care
• Day therapy units – subacute care
• Patient stories – subacute care
• Rehabilitation
• Specialist rehabilitation services
• Subacute care
• Subacute care in hospitals
• Subacute care in your home
• Transition Care Program (TCP)

Renal artery angioplasty and stent

• Renal artery angioplasty and stent

Renal biopsy

• Renal biopsy

Renal nuclear scan

• Renal nuclear scan

Safe sex

• Contact tracing
• Sexual health multicultural fact sheets

Screening

• Cervical screening
• Cervical Screening Registry
• Cervical Screening Test
• Colposcopy
• Hysterectomy
• Screening tests in the first 3 months of pregnancy
• Screening tests in the second 3 months of pregnancy
• Tests for pregnant women
• Tests for you and your baby during pregnancy
• Tests for your baby during pregnancy
• Understanding your Cervical Screening Test results
• Where can I have a Cervical Screening Test?

Self esteem

• Centre for Clinical Interventions

Sexual health

• Cervical screening
• Cervical Screening Registry
• Cervical Screening Test
• Colposcopy
• Hysterectomy
• Sexual health multicultural fact sheets
• Understanding your Cervical Screening Test results
• Where can I have a Cervical Screening Test?

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs)

• Contact tracing
• Contact tracing for sexually transmitted infections and blood-borne viruses
• Sexual health multicultural fact sheets

Skin lesion

• Skin lesions

Social anxiety

• Centre for Clinical Interventions

Social work

• Social work

Specialists

• Overview of the WA health system
• Specialists

Spectacle Subsidy Scheme

• Spectacle Subsidy Scheme

Speech pathology

• Speech pathology

Staph (Staphylococcus aureus)

• Decolonisation treatment for people with MRSA

Stigma

• Centre for Clinical Interventions

Stroke

• Specialist rehabilitation services
• Warfarin

Subacute care

• Community-based subacute care
• Day therapy units – subacute care
• Patient stories – subacute care
• Specialist rehabilitation services
• Subacute care
• Subacute care in hospitals
• Subacute care in your home

Surgery

• Arthroscopy of the knee
• Gallbladder surgery
• Hysteroscopy
• Incisional hernia
• Inguinal Hernia
• Skin lesions

Sutures

• Suture care

Telehealth

• Telehealth
• Telehealth appointments at home

Tuberculosis (TB)

• Contact tracing for tuberculosis (TB)
• Medications to treat tuberculosis
• Preventative treatment for tuberculosis (TB) infection
• Tuberculin Skin Test

Type 1 diabetes

• Insulin and diabetes

Type 2 diabetes

• Insulin and diabetes

Ultrasound

• Endoscopic rectal ultrasound
• Ultrasound
• Ultrasound during pregnancy

Urinary conditions

• Caring for your catheter
• Troubleshooting for your catheter
• What is a catheter?
• Your indwelling urinary catheter
• Your lifestyle with a catheter
• Your self-intermittent catheter
• Your suprapubic catheter

Venogram

• Venogram

Warfarin

• Pregnancy and breastfeeding while taking warfarin
• Stopping warfarin
• Warfarin
• Warfarin and other medicines
• Warfarin and risk of bleeding
• Warfarin safety
• Your lifestyle choices with warfarin

Wheezing

• How to use an accuhaler
• How to use an autohaler
• How to use an inhaler (puffer) with large volume spacer
• How to use an inhaler (puffer) with small volume spacer
• How to use a turbuhaler

Wounds

• Caring for minor facial burn
• Caring for your healed burn
• Caring for your hydrocolloid dressing
• Oiling your dressing for removal

X-ray

• Arthrogram
• Chest X-ray
• CT scan – computerised tomography
• Intravenous pyelogram (IVP)
• Radiation risks of X-rays and scans
• Renal artery angioplasty and stent
• X-ray