Respiratory Department – Aintree Hospital
This information leaflet has been designed for patients as well as their carers who have attended Joint Lung Clinic.
We hope that this leaflet will help provide you with key information about your care and treatment including next steps.
We understand that you may have lots of questions and worries and that it can be hard to take everything in.
Contact details for the Aintree Lung team
Telephone – 0151 529 3657
Our working hours are Monday – Friday 09:00 – 17:00.
We may not always be available due to clinical commitments so if there is no answer then please do leave a voicemail with your name, date of birth, hospital number if known and contact details, we will call you back.
Any message left after 3pm may not be returned until the next working day.
For anything urgent please contact your GP, district nurse or 111.
Today you have agreed for us to make the following requests:
PET Scan - A PET scan checks the activity of cells in different parts of the body. It can give more detailed information about cancer or abnormal areas seen on x-rays, CT scans or MRI scans.
Pulmonary function tests (sometimes called lung function tests) measures how well your lungs are working. There are various different tests which all involve blowing and holding your breath into various analytical equipment to measure values such as airflow and lung volume.
Spirometry - A spirometry test measures how much air you can breathe out in one breath as well as how fast you can breathe out.
It's used to check how well your lungs are working and look for any problems. It is also called a lung function test.
CT Lung Biopsy - A lung biopsy is a way of getting a piece of tissue or a sample from the lung by passing a small needle into the chest through a tiny cut in the skin. This is done by a radiologist who is a doctor that specialises in these procedures with aid of CT images in a radiology department.
A bronchoscopy is a test that lets doctors look inside your windpipe and smaller airways in the lungs using a thin, flexible camera about the size of a pencil. Fluid or tissue samples can be taken.
EBUS is a form of bronchoscopy where ultrasound in the telescope looks at lymph nodes and then samples can be taken.
Other …………………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Feedback
Your feedback is important to us and helps us influence care in the future.
Following your discharge from hospital or attendance at your outpatient appointment you will receive a text asking if you would recommend our service to others. Please take the time to text back, you will not be charged for the text and can opt out at any point. Your co-operation is greatly appreciated.
Further Information 
Telephone – 0151 529 3657
Text phone number: 18001 0151 529 3657
Author: Respiratory Medicine
Review date: June 2029
PI 3245 V1