Sentences with phrase «because older patients»

Also, the geriatric patients were more likely to feel comfortable with the physician partners in the room than the general medicine patients, perhaps because older patients are more accustomed to having someone else, such as a caregiver or family member, in the room during their doctor visits.

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According to a case report published Wednesday in Pediatrics, the 9 - year - old patient's heart stopped because the hot dog chunk stimulated his vagus nerve, CNN reported.

This is a condition of confusion and disorientation, sometimes hallucination, that occurs, especially in older patients, because of sleep deprivation, drugs, stress and the experience of being in strange surroundings.

And the boss is making sure the players remember that and make sure that they remain patient and solid, because that is the way he believes the Gunners will finally get a positive result against our old rivals.

This can seem very attractive to patients as they are older because they know there is an increased risk of having chromosomal abnormalities.

Because of ALL the doctor's appointments, having a surgery herself, another few days of in - patient testing, and other medical issues in the family, I didn't «officially» start EC until about 4 months old... but by 6 months the nursing staff at our local ER knew I was «that lady who's really tiny baby pees on the potty.»

For example, I have lot of older patients as well and couple of them are actually employed as truck drivers and they get more sun screen on their left side of the body more than the right side of their body because they are in the driver's seat and they are getting all the UV rays through the car glass.

A mom once shared with Attachment Parenting International (API) about how an older couple offered her children a quarter each because «they were working so hard on being patient waiting for their food.»

A 38 - year - old psychiatrist by training who still sees patients once a week, Deisseroth entered the field of bioengineering because of his frustration over the inadequate tools available to research and treat mental illness and neurodegenerative disorders.

Dr. Fernandez said that because clinical decision - making in older patients can be fairly complex, the long - term patient outcome information from the STS - CMS linked data certainly will prove beneficial.

«This research effort is important because it will assist in recommending effective, optimal treatments tailored specifically to older patients with lung cancer,» he said.

While it's common in the medical field to look at older patients in terms of a specific disease, «it doesn't make so much sense... because most have more than one disease, and a lot of the problems also have to do with the social situation.»

«With the 1918 - 1919 flu season, older patients had some memory immunity to the virus because a similar strain had circulated years before.

Because there was only one other published case report about a child with M. velutinosus — a 1 - year - old with brain cancer who had undergone a bone marrow transplant — Kumar notes that he and colleagues were at a loss as to how best to treat their patient.

That's not a strange thing for a childless 36 - year - old woman to tell her gynecologist, but it surprised me because this patient is HIV - infected.

The findings are important because they suggest that treating high blood pressure in older patients should not follow a one - size - fits - all approach.

Bioprosthetic valves (made primarily with tissue) are recommended in patients older than 70 years, in whom the likelihood of needing reoperation because of valve degeneration is low.

The condition is thought to be more common in older people, but the true prevalence is unknown, in part because patients and their relatives may attribute their sleepiness to old age, or older people can compensate by napping.

Fourteen percent would be excluded on the basis of age alone — that's because most ARTs exclude patients older than 65.

Because these are non-living, they are safer in older people and patients on chemotherapy.

The authors point out that this is an observational study, so no firm conclusions can be drawn about cause and effect, and add their results might not apply to the general population because the study only looked at older patients.

«It's imperative to transition older patients because we're seeing a very strong correlation between use of benzodiazepines and development of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.

The fact that vaccines typically don't work as well in older people presents a challenge to influenza vaccine makers, particularly because the illness often results in serious respiratory infections in frail patients such as elderly nursing home residents.

Researchers theorize that the older patients had greater improvement simply because they had worse shoulder function before surgery.

Finally, he added, because some cancer - related mutations may also increase the risk that a childhood - cancer survivor may later develop a second cancer, clinicians and cancer researchers will need to develop the most effective strategies for counseling patients «through the continuum of infancy to old age.»

«Many older patients decide to undergo elective surgery because they want to be more functional afterwards.

Most cases of the disease occur in older individuals and are sporadic (non-familial), but around 15 % of patients develop symptoms early in life because of inherited mutations in a limited number of disease genes.

Also, because it was a private insurance sample, the patients were all under 65 years old, so the findings can not be generalized to those who are older.

Patients including older people with conditions such as dementia and motor neurone disease are being hit with huge care bills because a postcode...

Because many diseases, such as leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma and myelodysplasia, are more common in older patients, mini-HCTs allow these patients to potentially benefit from transplant.

Because medication side effects are more common in old age, many doctors and patients seek nonpharmaceutical treatments, the researchers said.

One of her patients is a 32 - year - old female entrepreneur who came to her because she suffered from chronic fatigue and insomnia despite daily meditation and exercise.

it has a lot of benefits and I've just started as a cancer nutrition therapist so I would like this book to offer my patients a lot of ideas and recipes to help them to understand right foods to be on ketosis because I know that overall in older patients is dificult to understand and follow.

Because of this, it may be ideal for many older patients to ingest supplemental protein away from meals.

However, the reality of older patients who may have digestive and appetite issues often dictates that there may be compliance issues with protein supplementation at meal time mainly because of the simple fact that quality protein is quite filling.

That's bad news for acne patients, because collagen helps your old acne to fade away.

Because she was a senior patient (7 years and older) and her last senior...

One of my 21 - year - old feline patients had to be moved onto a single floor of the house because he was too painful to use the stairs to the basement to get to his litter box.

Because one year in an older cat's life is equal to roughly five years in a human's, we recommend that our older patients come in at least twice a year for a physical exam, weight check, and thorough discussion of «how your cat is doing at home.»

Age of Patient: Because many cats develop additional allergies as they get older, young cats may need to be retested 1 - 3 years later.

«I recommend the Big Barker to our patients that have dogs with arthritis, hip dysplasia, or any issue that causes joint pain or affects mobility because I believe it reduces pain and helps get them back to their old self.»

«She was a patient sitter, but I worked mostly from sketches, because I couldn't expect a lively old lady to keep still for long periods.»

Patient 16: An 8 year old rejected refugee claimant from Africa who suffers from asthma begins coughing and wheezing more severely because he and his mother can no longer afford medical care after their IFH coverage is revoked (September 2012).

* Justin Bieber was late to a Salt Lake City concert on Saturday night because he dropped in to a children's hospital to visit 7 - year - old leukemia patient Millie Flamm.