Sentences with phrase «complication rate»

Among other things, Gawande discusses how a coach helped him bring down his post-surgery complication rate.

This is often a matter of considering any pre-surgical risk factors for anesthesia, and ascertaining the complication rate of the type of anesthesia that was used during the surgery.

Burn reconstruction surgery is technically demanding and prone to a higher complication rate than other reconstructive surgery.

Complication rate, outcome, and risk factors associated with surgical repair of fractures of the lateral aspect of the humeral condyle in dogs.

Finally, administration of prednisone after the melarsomine injections, as described in the AHS protocol, may decrease the complication rate.

High complication rate (24 %) blamed on student surgeons.

Ideally a cataract is removed in the early immature stage for the lowest surgical complication rate.

However, our mortality and complication rate is very low.

We are proud of our record of a very low surgical or anesthetic complication rate, but understand that there is still an inherent risk of anesthetic complication with any surgery.

Possible reasons include the corrected albumin levels of some patients as a result of abdominal surgery and postop treatment, low normal median preop albumin concentration, and the small sample size and low complication rate.

Despite the advancements in the THR surgery a 10 % to 30 % complication rate can still be expected.

Both have their advantages (a planned C - Section actually having a lower complication rate than the natural birth) and it is really up to every woman which to prefer.

«The complication rate for circumcision varies from 3 to 6 percent.

The overall complication rate of 2.8 % (95 % CI, 1.0 % -6.0 %) was significantly lower in the antibiotic group (6/216 patients) than the overall rate of 20.5 % (95 % CI, 15.3 % -26.4 %) in the surgical group (45/220 patients).

It is a very safe procedure with a very low complication rate.

Standard treatment involves a major operation with a large abdominal incision, potential loss of blood requiring replacement transfusion, a five to 10 percent complication rate and a two to four percent risk of death from the procedure.

The new study shows a similar overall complication rate for older versus younger women undergoing breast reconstruction.

The complication rate after breast reconstruction was 6.8 percent for older women and 5.2 percent for younger women.

Younger patients also had a higher complication rate.

* For these patients, radical cystectomy is the standard treatment, but the complication rate after the operation remains high, particularly for infections and poor wound healing, explained study authors.

However, they continue to market the same mesh for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence as they use a strip of it as a tape under the urethra and it remains very beneficial for the majority of patients with a very low complication rate in experienced hands.

«However, when much bigger areas of the same material are inserted through the vagina to relieve pelvic organ prolapse, the complication rate is frankly unacceptable.

«It is difficult to compare complications from contact lens use to LASIK, because the complication rate of both is so rare, but our analysis definitely shows that the infection rate is higher with contact lens use comparted to LASIK,» Dr. Waite said.

The overall in - hospital complication rate significantly decreased in patients without a comorbidity, or with a small number of comorbidities, for spinal fusion and TKR; and remained stable in those without a comorbidity, or with a small number of comorbidities, for THR in the 80 and older patient group.

The overall in - hospital complication rate remained stable, declining slightly from 2000 to 2009 in the 80 and older patient group for spinal fusion (from 17.5 percent to 16.1 percent) and for TKR (from 9.9 percent to 9.1 percent).

A new study appearing in the February 4th issue of the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery (JBJS) found significant benefit from surgical treatment for lumbar spinal stenosis with and without degenerative spondylolisthesis — debilitating spinal conditions causing leg and back pain, numbness and weakness — and no higher overall complication rate and no higher mortality for patients age 80 and older when compared to patients younger than age 80.

The overall complication rate was unchanged over time.

Ahuja's study confirmed that for colon surgery, when compared to open surgery, laparoscopic surgery is associated with a lower mortality rate, a lower complication rate, shorter hospital stays and lower costs.

«Our proposed protocol is well - accepted by patients, has a low complication rate, and is reproducible by other surgical centers,» Dr. Agostini comments.

The complication rate after colorectal procedures was nearly 20 percent in the study.

In 274 patients who had undergone RC and had completed the SF - 12, MCS was statistically significantly lower in those who had a high grade 30 - day complication rate (44.8 vs 49.8, p = 0.004) but PCS was not (39.2 vs 43.8, p = 0.06).

In one study of general surgery patients, quitting smoking for three or four weeks before surgery reduced the complication rate from about 40 to 20 percent.

Ah yes, this is definitely relevant, but due to lack of clear data, hard to decipher the true role, but we can say with certainty that premature babies are far more likely amongst non-white populations and poor socioeconomic status, meaning that the true complication rate is higher than reported.

BUT, all of the studies were underpowered to say anything about the fetal complication rate.

this reminds me of the evidence based medicine blog recently taking a bunch of studies of induction as a treatment for macrocosmia and saying, look, induction just increases the maternal complication rate while not affecting the fetal complication rate.

The study can only look for an effect from prayers offered as part of the research, they said.They also said they had no explanation for the higher complication rate in patients who knew they were being prayed for, in comparison to patients who only knew it was possible prayers were being said for them.»

Actually, she didn't even compare «true» complication rates.

The argument that the death and complication rates for homebirth when there is little to no legal route (Yes, CNMs are able to perform homebirth in NC but they are required to be overseen by an Obstetrician and therefore most work in birthing centers and hospitals) are proof of why it should not be considered for legalization and regulation is the same one seen when abortion is prohibited.

Although published series are relatively small, women with a prior cesarean delivery who undergo labor induction with prostaglandins (including misoprostol) have been shown to have outcomes that are similar to those women with an unscarred uterus (eg, length of time until delivery, failed labor induction, and complication rates)(138 — 143).

VBAC's are successful 75 % of the time, and successful VBAC's have lower complication rates than planned repeat cesarean sections.

«The object of this study was to examine the sentinel lymph node alone in women with squamous cell carcinoma of the vulva and evaluate their recurrence in the groin and any complication rates,» Dr. Moore explains.

Although the two groups had similar complication rates and hospital stay...

However, when the current results were included in an updated meta - analysis, the intervention was associated with a clinically important reduction in complication rates, according to a study published by JAMA.

In total, 83 patients developed complications within 30 days postoperatively, and complication rates were similar between the noncancerous and cancerous groups.

They found similar complication rates, mortality rates and length of hospital stays between laparoscopic surgery and robotic surgery, but found that a robotic surgery cost an average of nearly $ 3,000 more.

The researchers found that there were no statistically significant differences in the rates of conversion to open laparotomy for robotic - assisted laparoscopic surgery compared with conventional laparoscopic surgery (8.1 percent vs 12.2 percent, respectively), and there were no statistically significant differences in complication rates or quality of life at six months.

«We can offer more patients reconstruction than in the past, we have greater experience, but there is a tradeoff of possibly higher complication rates.»

• A study of 1,010 boys and young men in Bungoma, Kenya, found complication rates of 17.5 percent for independent medical circumcisions and 35 percent for traditional circumcisions.

Despite initial enthusiasm, the study revealed high complication rates.

Or it may be that, as some studies indicate, complications rates are similar, but high - volume centers recognize complications sooner and address them better.