Can any nurse or doctors tell me what a hot list is?

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Currently in hospital with a inflamed gallbladder plan is to get inflammation down, they have said I will be placed on the "hot list" once that happens, I know I need my gallbladder out, does this mean it will be done soon?

Bumping for the lunchtime crew.

Hostel outpatients treatments?
So youd be sent home once the infection is under control, and seen as a day patient for surgery?

Maybe, I don't work in a hospital.

Hospital in that first line

Needs urgent surgery but it’s not life threatening maybe?

Have you had a covid test since admission? A hot zone for us is people who haven't as yet tested negative for covid so they can't go to the 'green' ie negative till they have.

I think its the short notice surgery list. Not sure though.

Thanks everyone, covid test is negative, so I think it's in relation to the gallbladder operation.

To warn the staff that you're smoking hot

Sorry, not helpful, just thought you could use a smile in hospital :)

I would assume Hospital Outpatients Treatment

I had an overnighter in hospital on morphine with Gallstone pain. Discharged in the morning and told the same thing- i.e. going on the 'hot list' and to return to hospital that afternoon.
I did so and was basically given advice on pain management and told I would be contacted in due course with a date for surgery. From memory, it was about 3 months later when I got a date for surgery. I didn't go ahead with the surgery and it is now 6 years down the line and I haven't had any further episodes (changed to a very low fat diet).

Thanks, I still can't keep anything down, am on iv antibotics, sickness and fluids.

Not emergency (hours), but urgent (days) usually?

Presume the nurses / doctors treating you could answer this one?

Thank you everyone

Best wishes.

Don’t know how the term is used in hospitals. In business and manufacturing it is the practice of prioritising some orders ahead of others that are due to be shipped. It’s not a gr3at practice as it bypasses the formal schedule that has already been set to prioritise orders based on customer needs. It usually happens when there is a massive backlog and the person who shouts the loudest gets bumped up the hotlist rather than it being based on any real logic.
If that’s what hospitals are doing…god help us

I'm a GP - when I last worked in hospital (a few years ago) it meant urgent, essentially. The hot theatre was the one in which urgent cases were done. I'd assume I'd be operated on while an inpatient if someone said that to me, but do clarify with the team what they mean.

I don’t know for sure OP but I remember when I had my gallbladder out, it was inflamed and they referred to it being “hot” which I remember as I thought it was odd phraseology. I think they said it was something to do with having the operation done during an attack, rather than giving antibiotics and waiting for it to die down, before doing the op then.

Good luck with the surgery

Yes a "hot gall bladder" is an inflamed one that needs removing so it will be that :) hope you make a swift recovery!

I'm on a hot list for my gallbladder too. Its a rapid access clinic where a surgeon assesses and lists you for surgery if needed. Usually as an outpatient so chances are you'll be discharged and then called back in for an appointment (or it will be a telephone consultation if all investigations were done while you were in hospital. "Rapid" is also relative in covid times (I've been waiting more than 6 weeks for the appointment even with another admission where the surgeons plan was to expedite the hot clinic appointment).

So cold surgery is planned and you get put on a waiting list, the list is the list of patients for surgery on a particular day. So the cold list is the list of planned operations. I have not heard of urgent or acute cases being called 'hot' but I would assume it means urgent or emergency and would be done either after the cold cases or in a different theatre.

I hope my ramblings make some sense. You should check with the staff because they should not be using terminology like this which is patients (and an ex nurse!) do not understand. Hope you are better soon x

Thank you all, I will ask when I next see a doctor

@MayMorris that's how NHS hospitals work all the time. If a theatre can operate on 10 people some of these will be emergencies and some will be planned. If more emergencies come in than planned for, then they might get priority over the planned surgery. This is not to say that hospitals are not under it right now with waiting lists and staff shortages, because they are.

Can't help with OP though, seems specific to your hospital or type of operation. Good luck with it!

It’s likely to do with “hot” gallbladder (I.e. an inflamed one) removal vs “cold” (not inflamed, but causing episodes of pain). There is a window of opportunity during an acute attack in which they can take it out, otherwise it is safer to wait until “cold” again.

And this is why staff shouldn’t use “jargon” to patients!!