Professor Allen prefers that you have your PET scan done at Wesley Medical Imaging as they are the leading experts in the field of PET for sarcoidosis. (They have performed more of these than anywhere in the southern hemisphere.) Not all PET scanning machines are the same and the expertise of the staff and radiologists […]

You should consider oxygen as a medication. Accordingly it should be treated like any other drug prescribed, that is, it should be used in appropriate doses. Just because some is good, it doesn’t mean more oxygen is necessarily better. Some lung diseases require a certain level of supplemental oxygen when the patient is at rest, but more […]

No. The air we breathe is approximately 21% oxygen, we cannot live without it. When a patient is started on supplemental oxygen they are often put on something in the range of 24 to 30% oxygen, so it is just a little more than is in the usual air you breathe. Using supplemental oxygen does not make you […]

Positron emission tomography (PET) is a medical imaging procedure that can provide information about how an organ or system in the body is working. PET scans can detect cancer in its early stages, help to monitor cancer treatment and check if the cancer is coming back. PET scans are also used to diagnose and assess […]

Arranging a bronchoscopy procedure involves co-ordination between several parties: The patient, the hospital, the anaesthetist, the pathologist and us. A deposit is requested so that these arrangements can be confirmed with all parties. After the procedure, you will be posted a paid invoice which can then be claimed through your health fund.