Sentences with phrase «deaths of patients who»

Officials at the Central New York Psychiatric Center in Marcy are probing the March 12 death of a patient who was civilly confined in the hospital's secure unit for sex offenders.

$ 6.3 Million Jury Verdict in the Death of a Patient Who Died After a Physician Chose Not To Refer the Patient to a Cardiologist

It is very sad that Dr Ubani was able to come to the UK as a Locum GP as his actions resulted in the death of a patient who desperately needed medical attention.

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The Ebola infection rate and death toll have been particularly high among health workers, who are exposed to hundreds of highly infectious patients who can pass the virus on through body fluids such as blood and excrement.

Countless stories shared on World AIDS Day by survivors and patient family members describe Americans who, ignored by the political class and facing a dearth of treatment options, simply accepted HIV and AIDS as a death sentence just three decades ago.

Herper homes in on a relatively new class of super-powerful (and super expensive) cholesterol - busting drugs called PCSK9 inhibitors (which were just shown to reduce death from any cause, and particularly heart - related conditions), and how patients with staggeringly high cholesterol who would benefit from the treatments had to wrangle with insurance companies that refused to cover them over their high prices.

'' [It] minimizes the need for a full fledge [d] investigation to determine if some of these deaths could have been prevented, or whether the island's medical facilities were negligent in terms of providing treatment to their most vulnerable patients,» writes Yordán, who is from Puerto Rico.

Readers of SHS may recall the terrible San Luis Obispo case of a transplant surgeon named Hootan Roozrokh who is charged felonious wrongdoing in trying to kill a profoundly disabled patient so his organs could be procured under a «heart death» protocol.

His research concluded that only those with a high risk of death actually benefited from heart transplants, more than 80 \ % of donor hearts going to patients who were likely to live for longer without a transplant.

In the practice of critical care medicine, we sometimes end up caring for patients who have suffered severe illness or injury and are deteriorating toward brain death.

Riding the publicity wave of Brittany Maynard, a young woman who suffered much and became the human face of the death - with - dignity movement, they have redefined compassion as respect for a patient's autonomous determination of the time, location, and method of death.

«I have discovered that the practice here in Westphalia is to compile lists of such patients who are to be removed elsewhere as «unproductive citizens,» and after a period of time put to death.

He directs it chiefly at medical specialists who look upon disease and death as enemies to be conquered and who carry attempts to overcome them to the point of giving the patient false hopes of recovery, disregarding his suffering in futile efforts to score a medical triumph.

Besides George Delury, who killed his wife, we may mention Timothy E. Quill, who prescribed lethal pills for his patient, and Andrew Solomon, who participated in the death of his mother.

With respect to their attitudes, of the 319 doctors who responded, 89 \ % consider it ethical to withhold ANH from PVS patients; 65 \ % consider it ethical to transplant vital organs from PVS patients; and 20 \ % consider it ethical to administer lethal injections to hasten the death of such patients.

I think most of our patients would reach the stage of acceptance if it were not for the members of the helping professions, especially the physicians, who can not accept the death of a patient... the second and quantitatively more frequent problem is the immediate family which «hangs on» and can not «let go.»

The chaplain will accept the challenge Dr. Kübler - Ross has forcefully given him to stop and listen to the dying, but he will further face the prospect of ministering to patients who are not able to speak peacefully and calmly about death.

Kevorkian either didn't know or didn't care that ALS patients do not suffocate or choke to death when they receive proper medical care from doctors who know how to ameliorate the symptoms of the disease.

In Ontario today, doctors who decline to euthanize their patients are required to provide what is termed, in the Orwellian vocabulary of the culture of death, an «effective referral»: They are obliged, on pain of losing their license to practice, to send a troubled patient to a doctor of lighter conscience who will kill that patient.

Borrowing from the new secular ethic of «compassionate death,» even the Catholic Health Association now publishes articles encouraging «futility policies» for hospital ethics committees that enable them to force the withdrawal of treatment from patients or families who do not make the «right» choice.

A 2016 meta - analysis showed that Kona coffee did reduced occurrence of death in patients who have had a myocardial infarction.

In response to reports that women may be using this unapproved drug, to increase milk production (lactation), the WHO and FDA are warning breastfeeding women of safety concerns as «there have been several published reports and case studies of cardiac arrhythmias, cardiac arrest and sudden death in patients receiving an intravenous form of domperidone that has been withdrawn from the market in a number of countries.»

During investigations by the Healthcare Commission the trust stated that there were no deaths caused by the Clostridium difficile outbreaks, the investigation concluded that «of the 345 patients who died, approximately 90 deaths where Clostridium difficile was definitely or most probably the main cause of death.»

-- The attending physician is the person who first deems the patient terminal; he / she is the same person who declares the patient is capable, acting voluntarily and making an informed decision; he / she is the same person who writes the prescription or dispenses the medications directly; and he / she is the same person to sign the patient's death certificate; and he / she is required to lie on the death certificate by writing the terminal illness as the cause of death, not the lethal drugs -LRB-!).

DUNKIRK - The Post-Journal is reporting that the ambulance driver who was operating an ambulance when it veered off the road and crashed — resulting in the death of a patient — has not received any criminal charges related to the incident, though the... [Read more...]

When a nurse loses a patient it stays with her forever; but for the CEOs, who make life and death decisions with the stroke of a pen, it only lasts until their million dollar severance check arrives in the mail.

The National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) investigated the care given to 820 patients over 80 years of age, who died within 30 days of surgery being performed on them.

Similarly, Balboni wrote, the cancer patients who relied on private, unspoken religious beliefs to manage their illness were «nearly three times more likely to receive intensive life - prolonging care near death and less likely to enter hospice during the final weeks of life» than those without a pronounced religious sense.

One of those early patients was a young girl named Emily Whitehead who arrived in June's clinic, «on death's door,» with an aggressive form of relapsed childhood leukemia.

The goal of this second study was to examine the effect of drug compliance on death rates in patients who had had heart attacks.

In the new study, patients receiving angioplasty with the new stents had a 47 percent higher risk of one of the outcomes identified as a primary endpoint in the study: death, heart attack and subsequent procedure to clear blocked arteries, as compared to patients who received bypass.

Patients who received accelerated RT experienced fewer grade 3 toxicities (10 reported for conventional RT vs. six for hypofractionated RT) and a lower rate of death from hypoxia (two for conventional RT vs. one for hypofractionated RT).

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.

Over a median follow - up of nearly eight years, patients who were current smokers had a 40 % increased risk of cancer relapse, as well as more than 2 - times increased risks of cancer spread and cancer - related death, compared with patients who were never smokers.

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.

NSCLC is responsible for the most cancer - specific deaths globally, and many of these deaths are associated with the high percentage of patients who present with stage III cancer upon diagnosis.

Furthermore, the levels of Runx2 expression among a larger group of 351 newly diagnosed multiple myeloma patients were significantly higher in patients who had a high risk of early disease - related death, as compared with lower - risk patients.

«Use of steps one to three triage criteria is not sufficient for identifying intracranial hemorrhage and death or neurosurgery for older patients who suffer head trauma,» said the lead author of the study, Daniel K. Nishijima, MD, MAS, of the University of California Davis School of Medicine in Sacramento, Calif. «While we wait for other studies to confirm our research, we strongly urge patients to make their medication history available and known to their families and EMS providers, especially for situations that may arise where they can not speak for themselves.

In it, critical care specialist Charles Natanson of the Clinical Center at the U.S. National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, argued that blood substitutes, no matter how they're designed, raise the risk of death by almost 30 % and nearly triple the rate of heart attacks in the people who receive them in clinical trials, mainly surgery and trauma patients.

This was particularly true for movement — patients who were not moving after injury had a higher risk of death.

A leading cause of post-bone marrow transplant deaths, chronic GVHD affects approximately one - half of patients who receive conventional treatments.

The method could prolong survival for organ recipients and reduce the death toll among the tens of thousands of patients globally who need donor livers today.

«We need systems of care that better identify these patients who are at increased risk because getting that follow - up can significantly reduce their risks of heart attack or premature death.»

In patients who have sepsis, for example, the risk of death goes up by 6 to 8 percent for every hour that antibiotics are delayed, so it's critically important to act quickly.

Two classes of blood pressure medications, angiotensin - converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) and angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs), are associated with a 16 % lower risk of strokes, heart attacks and death in patients with end - stage renal disease who are undergoing peritoneal dialysis, a new study in the journal, Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, reports.

To test their theory, the researchers examined Del - 1 expression in brain tissue from people who had died from MS.. In MS patients with chronic active MS lesions, Del - 1 was reduced compared to both healthy brain tissue and brain tissue from MS patients who were in remission at the time of their death.

Osteoarthritis patients who received a steroid injection in the hip had a significantly greater incidence of bone death and collapse compared with control groups, according to new research presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

«Our findings provide evidence that the results of earlier studies — that patients who had normal weights were at higher risk of death — may have been related to unintended weight loss as opposed to a protective effect of being overweight or obese.

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.

«Our study is the first to focus on weight change around RA diagnosis and risk of death, rather than weight change in patients who had RA for many years, as in previous studies,» said Dr. Sparks.