Sentences with phrase «while open surgery»

While open surgery has been the mainstay of treatment for many of these tumors and often offers curative resection, it is not without risks.

Not exact matches

June 2008: After winning the U.S. Open (his 14th and last major title) while playing with pain in his knee and two stress fractures in his left tibia, has surgery to reconstruct the ACL and fix additional cartilage damage in his left knee.

My MP opened the letter while meeting him at an advice surgery — and tells me she just about managed to stop herself laughing.

Never again, they vowed, would the planet be forced to sit by, powerless, while oil execs confessed — after the fact — that stopping a leak at such depths is like performing «open - heart surgery at 5,000 feet in the dark,» as BP America's chairman and president, Lamar McKay, told ABC News about the early attempt to plug the well by triggering the failed blowout preventer.

A Hollywood thriller due out this year centers on a young man who awakens while undergoing open - heart surgery but is unable to move or cry out.

While the condition is rarely fatal, patients can develop difficulty breathing, necessitating complex emergency surgery to open the airway.

55 The percentage of technicians admitting they talk on cell phones while monitoring the machines that keep blood pumping during open - heart surgery.

Before the new defibrillator, treatment for some may have included more invasive open heart surgery to implant a traditional defibrillator, while others may have been unable to undergo surgery and remain at risk for sudden cardiac arrest.

(Let's clear up a common misconception while we're at it: Unless you've had surgery to open your sinuses, a nasal rinse doesn't actually enter those cavities, despite the fact that they're often called «sinus rinses,» Dr. Lebowitz says.

[Note: Robin Williams was overweight for quite a while, and had open heart surgery not too long before his suicide.]

Angie had a couple of serious fractures for which surgery had been required, she lost a spleen, there was a collapsed lung and she had a titanium rod in a femur, but the big issue was the head injury — there had been an impressive laceration on the back of her head and while there was no open fracture, her brain began to swell and the neurosurgeon implanted a shunt to drain the edema.

While sterilisation is a routine surgery for a rabbit, it is still considered an invasive open abdominal surgery.

Ellis Stevens, 8, says he enjoyed looking at the X-ray and discovering what was inside Ruff Ruff's stomach, while Taylor Mosby, also 8, says her favorite part of the field trip was the surgery «because you could see him (Long) open him up.»

While the surgeons did need to open Googgie's abdominal cavity to perform the surgery, they were able to place the implant minimally invasively, and utilize interventional radiology to help guide the procedure.

While they may not enjoy it initially, they will enjoy even less having to come back to our office for a recheck visit to repair an incision that has been chewed open or treat an infection at the surgery site.

While it may be tempting to purchase the really cheap dollar store cat toys, they are typically cheaply made and fall apart easily, leaving the cat open to choking on the pieces of long string, foil parts, and ribbon can cause all kinds of problems including causing your cat to need expensive surgery to correct blocked intestines or other dangerous problems.

Their goals differ from Bess's, of course; they're looking to reconcile their bodies with their identities rather than to merge the genders through surgery — or, as Gober said while visiting the Menil just before the show opened, to create «an opening of the unconscious, both in and out of his body.»

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Two rounds of open - heart surgery, pneumonia and a bout of radiation therapy over the last two years had hobbled Mr. Diebenkorn, making his breathing so difficult that eventually his creative efforts were limited to drawings and other small - scale works he could produce while bedridden.

Professional Experience Columbia — Presbyterian Medical Center (New York, NY) 2006 — 2010 Surgical Scheduling & Diagnostic Testing Unit Manager • Manage both adult and pediatric surgical scheduling offices for an 18 - doctor orthopedic practice, supervising the coordination of 400 surgeries per month at 4 different clinical sites • Reduce monthly case cancellation percentage through the implementation of a patient compliance program while increasing the OR utilization rate / patient volume by 13 % in 2009 — 2010 • Facilitated the opening of an ambulatory surgery center through workflow coordination and successful project management

That was his inspiration for opening the Gift of Life Transplant House, where transplant patients can find an affordable place to stay with their care - givers while they wait for donors and recover from surgery.

My father had a stroke while undergoing open heart surgery many years ago.