Sentences with phrase «by patients undergoing»

In high - volume specialties, the greatest average cost related to SSIs was $ 23,755 among patients undergoing neurosurgery, followed by patients undergoing orthopedic, general, peripheral vascular and urologic surgeries.

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Say for example a patient in a remote location must undergo surgery without anesthesia, but with (for the sake of argument) the assurance that he will prevent his own death by undergoing great pains and also assuming that (for the sake of argument) he values his own life over and above any pain he may experience in this life.

Bariatric Cookery was founded by a cookery writer and bariatric patient, Carol Bowen Ball, to help support those considering or undergoing bariatric (weight - loss) surgeries like Gastric Bypass, Lap Band, and Gastric Sleeve.

For years it has been used by cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy to battle the often debilitating effects of nausea.

After counseling, the ultimate decision to undergo TOLAC or a repeat cesarean delivery should be made by the patient in consultation with her obstetrician or obstetric care provider.

An editorial in the The New England Journal of Medicine recommends that patients provide informed, written consent to undergo elective surgery by physicians who haven't had enough sleep.

To investigate, researchers led by Roberto Pisoni, MD (Medical University of South Carolina) analyzed information on 56 patients with diabetes and CKD who had undergone screening for obstructive sleep apnea through the use of a questionnaire.

The study, was reported Feb 13 to the 5th International Conference on Innovative Approaches in Head and Neck Oncology (ICHNO) will reduce significantly the number of HNSCC patients who currently undergo selective neck dissection (SND), a procedure which involves removing a group of lymph nodes from the neck in order to try to eradicate those which may have been reached by the cancer.

• Informed Consent Technology can help individuals make better decisions about whether to undergo an invasive medical procedure, by using interactive computer programs that automatically check for comprehension and promote discussion between doctors and patients.

The remaining seven percent of patients underwent PSR — a percutaneous operation in which the nerve fibers causing pain are destroyed by a needle inserted from the cheek all the way into the skull.

A new type of cancer drug developed at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, but not yet tested in clinical trials may have triggered the deaths of three patients who were undergoing an alternative cancer treatment by a nonmedical practitioner in Germany.

Patients undergoing surgery for a hip fracture were older and had more medical conditions than patients who underwent an elective total hip replacement, factors that may contribute to the higher risk of in - hospital death and major postoperative complications experienced by hip fracture surgery patients, according to a study in the September 15 issue Patients undergoing surgery for a hip fracture were older and had more medical conditions than patients who underwent an elective total hip replacement, factors that may contribute to the higher risk of in - hospital death and major postoperative complications experienced by hip fracture surgery patients, according to a study in the September 15 issue patients who underwent an elective total hip replacement, factors that may contribute to the higher risk of in - hospital death and major postoperative complications experienced by hip fracture surgery patients, according to a study in the September 15 issue patients, according to a study in the September 15 issue of JAMA.

So a team of US researchers, led by Dr Stavros Memtsoudis at Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, and Dr Jashvant Poeran at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, both in New York, set out to determine the effectiveness and safety of tranexamic acid in a large sample of US patients undergoing total hip or knee replacement surgery.

A highly underutilized anesthesia technique called neuraxial anesthesia, also known as spinal or epidural anesthesia, improves outcomes in patients undergoing hip or knee replacement, according to a new study by researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery.

German police took action on 4 August after two patients from the Netherlands and one from Belgium died shortly after undergoing treatment at the Biological Cancer Centre, run by alternative practitioner Klaus Ross in the town of Brüggen, Germany, 50 kilometers west of Düsseldorf.

By that point, the patient would have undergone multiple operations.

The current study is a retrospective review of imaging and medical records of eight patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) with elevated central venous pressure complicated by PLE who underwent lymphatic imaging and interventions at CHOP.

Most CRE infections occur in hospitals and long - term care facilities among patients who are already weakened by unrelated disease or have undergone certain medical procedures.

A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)- based screening program for individuals at high risk of pancreatic cancer identified pancreatic lesions in 16 of 40 (40 percent) of patients, of whom 5 five underwent surgery, according to a report published online by JAMA Surgery.

The researchers merged Norwegian national joint replacement and prescription databases to analyze medication use by nearly 40,000 patients undergoing THA from 2005 to 2011.

In this study, 50 patients and six healthy volunteers at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham and Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh underwent digital image scanning, and the results were processed by clinical and imaging specialists.

By taking human intervention out of the equation, autonomous robots could potentially reduce complications and improve care for patients undergoing soft tissue surgeries, about 45 million of which are performed in the U.S. each year.

As part of the project, announced last week by Kenneth Hagemann, director of the Pentagon's Defense Nuclear Agency, 24 soldiers from Brooks Air Force Base in Texas are taking prescription drugs — ondansetron hydrochloride and granisetron hydrochloride — that are given to cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy or chemotherapy.

«By reducing bleeding with comparable rates of MACCE and stent thrombosis, bivalirudin significantly improved overall 30 - day and one year outcomes, compared with both heparin alone and heparin plus tirofiban in patients with AMI undergoing primary PCI,» said Gregg W. Stone, MD, the study's senior author.

Tissue samples were collected from patients who were undergoing biopsies after a diagnosis of IBD, and from patients suffering colon cancer whose tissues were unaffected by IBD - linked changes.

In the new study, patients with a higher quality of life during their final days included those who avoided hospitalizations and stays in the intensive care unit (ICU), were not worried about death, prayed or meditated, received care at home, did not use a feeding tube, were visited by a pastor in the hospital or clinic, did not undergo chemotherapy in the final week of life, and felt an alliance with their oncologist regarding therapy.

A new study led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators finds that heart failure patients who underwent bariatric surgery to treat morbid obesity had a significant reduction in the incidence of heart failure exacerbation — a dangerous, sudden worsening of symptoms — in the two years following surgery.

After being treated by health care teams at National Jewish Health, children who underwent in - patient therapy saw an average reduction in symptoms of 71 percent, they maintained healthy skin a month after returning home, and, perhaps most important, did so without relying solely on medications typically prescribed to these patients.

Use of the novel anticoagulant otamixaban did not reduce ischemic events compared with unfractionated heparin plus eptifibatide but increased bleeding among patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes undergoing a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI; procedures such as balloon angioplasty or stent placement used to open narrowed coronary arteries), according to a study published by JAMA.

How to Stay Healthy Patients undergoing treatment can shore up their physical (and emotional) reserves by eating well, exercising and cutting stress (which impairs the immune system).

The CoreValve System initially was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in January 2014 to treat patients who are too ill or frail to undergo surgery.

By modeling indirect savings of the individual returning to the work force after surgery, researchers found that the lifetime societal net benefit for patients undergoing knee replacement averages between $ 10,000 and $ 30,000.

A study done by researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center shows that many relatives of patients who undergo testing for a gene linked to breast and ovarian cancers misinterpret the results, and less than half of those who could benefit from genetic testing say they plan to get tested themselves — despite the fact that knowing your genetic status may help catch the disease in its earliest stages.

Among patients with unexplained pain after undergoing total joint replacement with metal - containing components, women are more likely than men to test positive for metal sensitization, according to the report by Nadim J. Hallab, PhD, and colleagues from Rush University Medical Center, Chicago.

«Given the current spread of the disease, anesthesia personnel worldwide may be called upon to provide perioperative care for EVD patients undergoing emergency surgery or for airway management,» according to the article by Dr Andres Missair of University of Miami (Fla.) and colleagues.

The trial included three groups of patients: those who did not undergo surgery following infusion (three patients who had multi-focal and recurrent tumors not amenable to surgical resection prior to infusion); those who underwent «late surgery» (three patients who had surgery once at either day 34, day 55, or day 104 following infusion); and those who underwent «early surgery» (four patients who had clear symptomatic progression leading to a combined regimen of CART infusion followed by clinically indicated surgery).

A two - drug antihypertensive treatment that included a beta - blocker was associated with increased risk for major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs) and death in a study of Danish patients who underwent noncardiac surgery, according to an article published online by JAMA Internal Medicine.

In HIV - infected patients undergoing antiretroviral therapy (ART), ongoing HIV replication in lymphoid tissues such as the lymph nodes helps maintain stores, or reservoirs, of the virus, a new study funded by the National Institutes of Health suggests.

As detailed in a recent study by Dr. Margulis in The Journal of Urology, «Patients with the disease who undergo surgery have a mortality rate that can be as high as 10 percent, depending on the location of the tumor and its growth into the venous system.

All patients who underwent retrieval of an IVC filter were evaluated by an interventional radiology attending physician and underwent computed tomographic venography of the abdomen and pelvis.

In the trial, co-led by Rachael Clark, MD, PhD, associate professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School, Alain Rook, MD, professor of Dermatology and director of the Cutaneous Lymphoma Program at Penn Medicine, and Joel M. Gelfand, MD, MSCE, associate professor of Dermatology and medical director of the Clinical Studies Unit at Penn Medicine, twelve patients who had previously undergone an average of six treatments for early stage CTCL were treated with topical resiquimod gel at varying doses and intervals.

The SUNY team, led by John Hui, have treated 18 chest pain patients over the past two years for whom traditional treatment had failed to work or who were too ill to undergo surgery.

In a cross-sectional study, these researchers evaluated the responses to a socioeconomic questionnaire filled out by more than 530 patients who had undergone lung transplantation in 2009 or 2010.

By incorporating a lens that changes optical parameters in response to an electric current, the innovative technology can produce higher quality images than currently available and could make eye examinations faster and more comfortable for patients by avoiding the need to undergo imaging with multiple instruments to look at different areas of the eyBy incorporating a lens that changes optical parameters in response to an electric current, the innovative technology can produce higher quality images than currently available and could make eye examinations faster and more comfortable for patients by avoiding the need to undergo imaging with multiple instruments to look at different areas of the eyby avoiding the need to undergo imaging with multiple instruments to look at different areas of the eye.

Patients aged 15 to 35 undergoing primary ACL reconstruction were evaluated using the checklist by a trained physical therapist, 6 - 12 months post-operatively, prior to return to sports.

«I would like to point out, however — concludes Alimonti — that our discovery does not imply that cancer patients must undergo a strict dietary regime, which might in fact hurt them: a reduction of fat in cancer cells can only be obtained by blocking the cancer cells metabolism through specific drugs.»

The control group used for comparison included patients aged 15 to 35 who underwent ACL reconstruction between October 2012 and October 2014, and were cleared to return to sports by «usual clinical judgment» prior to the development of the checklist.

Researchers followed 187 patients who received a new valve by undergoing a transcatheter procedure or open - heart surgery to receive a new valve.

However, as early as 2002, Olaf Blanke and others induced OBEs by focal electrical stimulation of the brain's right angular gyrus in a patient undergoing treatment for epilepsy (Nature, vol 419, p 269).

By sparing functional portions of the lung the researchers aim to significantly improve quality of life for patients that have undergone radiation treatment.