Sentences with phrase «at avoiding surgery»

This is your best chance at avoiding surgery.

Not exact matches

I don't think you need to avoid surgery to be treated humanely, and can certainly be treated inhumanely during a vaginal birth at home.

So, after contemplating where I'd feel most comfortable, which local providers I felt respected me most and what type of birth experience would give me the best odds of avoiding surgery (and other interventions that might impact my long - term sexual health and satisfaction), I chose to give birth at home with midwives.

He was still having trouble, and things were difficult, but our doctor worked really hard at that point to help us avoid surgery, and got him straightened out and everything was eventually fine.

Some even require surgery at a point, but on the other side, surgery can be avoided if reflux is manageable with PPI; it all depends on the case.

Many women don't want to deliver in a hospital because they fear their choices — to avoid drugs, to avoid surgery, to be surrounded by their families, to be with the baby immediately after delivery — will be taken away, said Carolyn L. Gegor, program director of the Nurse Midwifery / Women's Health Nurse Practitioner Program in the School of Nursing and Health Studies at Georgetown University Medical Center.

In the future, ultrasound scans of the carotid artery will lead to the ability to perform surgery at an earlier stage in some cases, and the ability to avoid surgery completely in others.

Produced by a technique called fiber tractography, the image helped doctors at Sherbrooke University Hospital Center in Quebec avoid cutting vital circuitry during brain surgery: The reddest nerve fibers were those most likely to be severed by incisions to remove the tumor.

Ninety - seven percent of bariatric surgery patients avoided post-operative nausea and vomiting (PONV) with the addition of a second drug to the standard treatment given during surgery, according to a study presented at the ANESTHESIOLOGY ™ 2013 annual meeting.

The first long - term study of a pioneering endoscopic laser treatment for early vocal - cord cancer, developed at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and previously shown to provide optimal voice outcomes, finds that it is as successful as traditional approaches in curing patients» tumors while avoiding the damage to vocal quality caused by radiotherapy or by conventional laser or cold - instrument surgery.

Chen — together with clinical partners C. Keith Ozaki, MD, FACS, a surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital who has expertise in leg ischemia, and Joseph Woo, MD, the head of cardiothoracic surgery at Stanford University — have developed a patch that fosters the growth of new vessels while avoiding some of the problems of other approaches.

«Proper identification of the thyroid and parathyroid glands during head and neck surgery is critical for avoiding accidental injury, but presents a significant challenge due to their small size and variations in location from patient to patient,» says Richard Conroy, Ph.D., Director of the Division of Applied Science & Technology at NIBIB.

In a study appearing today in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS)(a research summary was presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeonsin March), researchers found that universal neuromuscular training for high school and college - age athletes — which focuses on the optimal way to bend, jump, land and pivot the knee — is an effective and inexpensive way to avoid ACL sprains and tears.

«This work highlights an example of using cutting - edge machine learning technology to avoid unnecessary surgery,» says Marc Kohli, director of clinical informatics in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at the University of California at San Francisco.

Working with colleagues at the University of Chicago, our experts created a new combination chemotherapy and radiation therapy treatment regimen that helps some patients with advanced head and neck cancer avoid major surgery.

«We were able to produce an exceedingly high local control rate, avoid surgery and dramatically improve patient survival,» said study director Everett Vokes, MD, professor of medicine and section chief of hematology / oncology at the University of Chicago.

Their goal is to markedly reduce the chance that cancer cells are present at the edge of the lumpectomy specimen, thereby avoiding the expense and discomfort of repeat surgery to ensure that the tumor has been completely removed.

So I called Joshua Copel, MD, a professor of obstetrics, gynecology, reproductive sciences, and pediatrics at Yale University School of Medicine, and asked him whether a woman with such a debilitating condition should undergo or avoid the curative surgery.

Being in the middle of a series of orthopedic surgeries at the time, I wanted to avoid RSD like the plague.

My doctor is encouraging me to avoid surgery - at first I was mad at him for not scheduling me right away — I was so upset about the sudden prolapse, and the way it looked and felt during hygiene practices, that I BEGGED him to FIX IT RIGHT NOW!

After surgery, you will want to avoid foods and beverages that are high in sugar, so start looking at food labels now to find foods that are no more than 15 grams of sugar per serving.

Pregnant women or patients about to undergo surgery should also avoid large doses of garlic, or at least talk to their health professional before taking it.

And if youre prone to UTIs, avoid positions like doggy - style and anal sex to help prevent bacteria from the bowel from sneaking into the vagina, says Marie Fidela Paraiso, MD, chief of urogynecology and reconstructive pelvic surgery at the Cleveland Clinic.

Many animal shelters perform the surgeries at this age in order to avoid adopting out unaltered cats.

Note: you may perform medical procedures at your practice, but it's best to avoid images of things like surgery, however relevant that may be to your animal hospital.

Officials at the Helen Woodward Animal Center said the leg surgery would have been the most difficult veterinary procedure yet for the 2 - year - old dog as they tried to avoid amputation of the limb.

If pet owners could keep their pet at a normal weight, many of these surgeries could be avoided.»

The exact risks and benefits of combining chemotherapy and RT are unknown (due to a lack of rigorous scientific studies), but we suspect the combination will be at least as beneficial as surgery and chemotherapy, and has the benefit of avoiding an invasive surgery.

It avoids a large surgical incision and, in some cases, any surgery at all.

• Highly skilled in diagnosing, treating and assisting patients in managing acute and chronic illnesses • Hands - on experience in conducting detailed physical examinations and interpreting medical histories to determine medication routes • Adept at prescribing age - specific physical therapy and rehabilitation services, with exceptional focus on efficacy of treatment • Proficient in providing prenatal care, family planning services and screening services aiming at effective development of treatment plans • Qualified to assist in the performing surgeries and medical procedures as part of a surgical team • Unmatched ability to counsel and educate patients about preventative measures to avoid diseases and illnesses • Highly skilled in monitoring the effectiveness of interventions and performing modifications to ensure efficacy • Proven record of creating and implementing dedicated patient care plans according to their specific health requirements • Demonstrated expertise in facilitating patient transition within and between healthcare settings including admitting, transferring and discharging procedures

Planning ahead to avoid trouble - Fairly simple measures may improve a difficult situation (for example, no longer taking the child to the supermarket, or taking a favourite book to entertain the child while at the doctor's surgery)