Sentences with phrase «after a patient stands»

A simple bedside test that matches a change in heart rate with a drop in blood pressure after a patient stands may help doctors diagnose certain degenerative brain diseases.

«By taking a patient's blood pressure lying flat, then looking at the change in heart rate after the patient stands up, we can provide healthcare providers with clues as to whether or not the patient has this neurodegenerative disease.»

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For the purposes of this economic evaluation, the forms were initially used in a related study funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) research for patient benefit programme «assessing the impact of a new birth centre on choice and outcome of maternity care in an inner city area,» which will be reported in full elsewhere, comparing the costs of care in a free standing midwifery unit with care in an obstetric unit in the same trust.16 The data collected included details of staffing levels, treatments, surgeries, diagnostic imaging tests, scans, drugs, and other resource inputs associated with each stage of the pathway through intrapartum and after birth care.

Tessa Jowell receives a standing ovation in the House of Lords, after she delivers moving speech on cancer care, appealing for patients to be able to trial treatments https://t.co/krOn1sstn2 pic.twitter.com/Fa 1bOJgKDi

The good news is that among patients who are not completely paralyzed, 80 percent stand by 12 months and 50 percent walk out of the hospital by 12 months, with improvements continuing for two years after injury.

After all, if the point of mindfulness is to stand back dispassionately from all our ideas and impulses, couldn't an OCD patient use mindfulness to step back even from mortal fears and compulsions?

«Even the patients who could not stand long enough to pick up a letter from their mail box or wash the dishes after dinner chose pain relief,» said Markman.

Blueprint will see where it stands after adding more patients with different cancer types to the Phase 1 study and focusing more on how long their responses last, rather than just whether they respond at all.

The drug was originally approved in 2000 as a stand - alone treatment for older patients with CD33 - positive AML who had had a relapse, but was eventually withdrawn after subsequent trials failed to confirm a clinical benefit and raised safety concerns.

But while insurers stand to save plenty of money if less women got lymphedema after breast cancer, unlike when new cancer drugs hit the market, exercise offers no immediate profit prospects for pharmaceutical or biotechnology companies — and no multi-million dollar advertising campaign advising patients to query their doctors about it.

After our patients kept seeing amazing success, we knew that we couldn't just stand by and not help more people.

After taking the time to understand acupuncture's complex history and implement the technique in my own health journey, I've found that the practice bridges the gap that stands between what modern science teaches us as physicians and what patients really experience.

We want photos of you sweeping the glitter off the village hall floor; heading out to teach 5 people on a dark evening half an hour's drive away after a long day at work; your piles of philosophy books stacked next to your mat; your tabs of marking for trainees; the scrubby you use on the handstand footprints on the wall; the loose change rattling in the donation box after the PWYC; your studio rent bill; the baby sick on your yoga top after mums and baby yoga; the holes in your favourite decade - old yoga leggings; the charity shop where you buy more; coffee stains on cork blocks and the hospital room where you teach cancer patients; the costume box for your yoga and theatre kids class; your ID badge for prison work; the hug from the student who finally learned to stand on one leg...

Thankfully, after staying patient, working back slowly, and using my brain instead of my ego, I have been able to break one of my longest standing PR's.

Approximately 90 minutes after the plaintiff's arrival, and after his hand weakness and tingling had worsened, the moonlighting defendant, with the second defendant standing by and watching, lifted the plaintiff off the stretcher to a seated position in order to examine the patient's cervical range of motion.

Out - standing Certified Medical Assistant (CMA) with extensive medical practice and additional health care experience, specially known for dedication in providing patient care, diagnosing patients and preparing reports after general tests.

In so doing, he's stood up for reproductive - health patients» right to privacy, fought for the dignity of the LGBTQ community, protected the right to receive an abortion after 20 weeks, and fought to keep state funding for preventive health - care services provided through Planned Parenthood Arizona.