Sentences with phrase «for patient recovery»

Not exact matches

FITBIT DATA AIDS RESEARCHERS IN UNDERSTANDING SURGERY RECOVERY: Fitbit data can help researchers and doctors predict the risk of 30 - and 60 - day readmission after surgery for cancer patients, according to a study published in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine.

But surgeons who swear by their robotic arms tend to return to the same words of praise: They tout the «speed of recovery» for patients, who typically don't need to spend days or weeks in a hospital as they might after traditional open surgery.

But through a private Facebook group for methadone patients and allies, I've witnessed a crisis develop: the inability of people in addiction recovery to access methadone due to the storm.

«Power of Prayer Flunks Unusual Test — NEW YORK — In the largest study of its kind, researchers found that having people pray for heart bypass surgery patients had no effect on their recovery.

One is to allow the patient time for possible recovery to come about, and the other is the use of induced hypothermia to reduce the brain's use of oxygen, thus giving doctors more time to treat the patient before further damage occurs due to any lack of oxygen.

The report we cited concerning recovery from heart attack, if proved correct by more trials, would mean that for years now our health professionals have been killing heart attack patients, whilst trying to save their lives.

The volunteers prayed for «a successful surgery with a quick, healthy recovery and no complications» for specific patients, for whom they were given the first name and first initial of the last name.

Community networks of groups for families of patients and ex-patients would improve the interpersonal environment which supports or sabotages full recovery of the patient.

Family therapy for the close relatives of the mentally ill is still another factor which helps the recovery of the patient.

When a ventilator is turned off from a critically ill patient for whom there is no hope of recovery, it is not claimed that the patient suffocated or was choked to death.

Among two groups of patients, one having people praying for them but not knowing, and the other receiving no prayers, there was no difference in their health and recoveries.

Alcoholics Anonymous with its parallel organizations for mates and children, Alanon and Alateen; Parents Without Partners, the group for single parents; Recovery, the group for returned mental patients; and similar organizations which offer support and help for those who have specific problems are widely known.

Every clinician who routinely treat athletes with post-concussion syndrome (i.e. patients whose symptoms after suffering a sports - related concussion persist for months or years), with whom I spoke for this article expressed variations of the same concern: that their patients, hearing media reports about athletes suffering symptoms associated with CTE (such as depression), were losing hope of a full recovery, to the point of considering suicide.

«Being prepared for a medical visit and knowing what questions to ask your doctor allows patients to be more hands - on in their recovery process, increasing their chances of overcoming injury,» said Dr. Montgomery.

He believes in a comprehensive approach, combining his expertise in surgical and non-surgical facial aesthetics for effective results with his patients having a quick recovery, minimal scarring and long term rejuvenation.

Citing a 2010 study finding that patients who had at least two 2 rehabilitation visits for persistent dizziness after a concussion showed improvement in their DHI scores (2), the study said that on - field identification of dizziness could lead to earlier implementation of vestibular rehabiliation and other modalities to treat dizziness, which may expedite recovery from concussion.

Vicky greatly looks forward to working with patients who recognize how important it is for them to invest in their recovery, physical and emotional healing, and self - care.

Concussion patients have irregular brain activity within the first 24 hours after their injury but increased levels of brain activity a few weeks later, which suggests that the brain may compensate for the injury during recovery, a new study reports.

This may be true during the actual procedure, but recovery is not easy for an elective cesarean patient.

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Doctor: I tell our patients that it is a major abdominal surgery, and it can take about two weeks to feel about 75 percent of what they normally feel, and it can take a full six to eight weeks for full recovery.

Quicker recovery for Dorset County Hospital hip replacement patients 3:00 pm Thursday 11th August 2011 Source: Dorset Echo By Harry Hogger...

In a post on her Facebook page, Sandra Lee thanked her fans and fellow breast cancer patients for sharing their personal experiences with recovery.

Brain - damaged patients who appear to have lost signs of conscious awareness might still be able to create new memories, showing signs of new neural networks and potential for partial recovery

«This variation of a standard technique used during breast reconstruction will revolutionize the post-operative recovery in patients who meet certain criteria for the procedure,» notes Dr. Small.

After a recovery period of approximately two months — during which the woman's chest skin heals, blood supply replenishes, and the expanders are gradually inflated to stretch the skin — the patient returns for an outpatient surgical procedure to replace the tissue expanders with permanent breast implants.

Whilst we hope for a good recovery, relatives and patients also should be supported in preparing for the worst to help them to focus on quality of life.»

«There's this commonly held belief that the longer you delay radiation therapy, the more opportunity a patient has for recovery from prostatectomy, and therefore the better long - term function in terms of urinary and bowel function — the longer you delay it, the better they'll function,» he said.

«Moving forward, we'll need to conduct additional studies of many more patients to show that getting functional scans in the first hours or days after a stroke could provide valuable information for predicting outcome and tracking recovery.»

This new study of non-military, civilian trauma patients visiting the emergency department builds on recent research conducted by Dr. Samadani, supported through the Cohen Veterans Center, which found that the use of this novel eye - tracking technology could reveal edema, or swelling, in the brain as a potential biomarker for assessing brain function and monitoring recovery in people with head injuries.

«Measuring damage to brain networks may aid stroke treatment, predict recovery: Functional MRI scans provide crucial data for stroke patients.»

«That means a lower risk of complications and shorter recovery time for patients.»

The average time to symptom recovery for all concussion patients was 54 days.

And, longer - term, misdiagnosing Zika as dengue has another complication: Patients may not be on the lookout for the weakness that could signal the early onset of the associated autoimmune disorder; Guillain — Barré has no cure but there are several therapies they could tap that are known to help speed recovery — involving blood removal or injections of donor proteins.

«This new rehabilitative approach at least triggered an astonishing recovery of the motor skills in rats, which may become important for the treatment of stroke patients in the future,» says first author Anna - Sophia Wahl.

«With the home monitoring enabled by these sensors, we can intervene at the right time, which could lead to better, faster recoveries for patients.»

«The consequences of a head injury have been called a hidden disability — although patients may seem to have outwardly made a good recovery, when we see them in clinic years later they can have persistent problems which affect their daily life, for example impairments in concentration and memory,» said Dr Gregory Scott, the lead author of the paper, from the Department of Medicine at Imperial.

Anesthesiologists using a technique similar to a dental freeze can improve the quality of recovery and decrease recovery time for breast cancer surgery patients, according to a new study.

The system is designed for both chronic patients and the recovery of people who have suffered a heart event (for instance, a heart attack) or if they have had heart surgery.

Studies have shown that the drug alvimopan significantly accelerates recovery of gastrointestinal function and shortens the hospital stay for patients undergoing gastrointestinal or bladder cancer surgery.

There aren't many things we do to patients in terms of treatment that affect the recovery for a group by 25 per cent.»

In addition to presenting new treatment options for current and future tolerant patients who experience transplant rejection, shedding light on the mechanisms involved in tolerance recovery could lead to the discovery of biomarkers or bioassays that predict whether recipients can be safely taken off immunosuppression.

Researchers there are exploring left / right asymmetries in sweating as a metric for recovery in stroke patients.

The odds of a good stroke outcome were 75 % greater for patients given alteplase within 3 hours of initial stroke symptoms, compared with those who did not receive the drug; for those given the drug between 3 and 4 · 5 hours post-stroke there was a 26 % increased chance of a good outcome; while for those with a delay of more than 4 · 5 hours in receiving treatment, there was just a 15 %, not statistically significant, increase in the chance of a good recovery.

Assoc Prof Tan said, «The motivation behind the development of CLiKX is to significantly reduce the recovery time and treatment cost for patients.

• Hope for Stroke Patients A brain severely injured by stroke or other calamities may be more adaptable to recovery than previously thought.

Preoperative preparation and postoperative recovery time for patients are significantly reduced.

As doctors dial down anesthetics and remove the patient's ventilator tube, more will be apparent about Giffords's potential for recovery.

Using what are called brain — machine interfaces (BMIs)-- essentially cyborg connections between prosthetic devices and the nervous system — researchers for the first time were able to show that the process of learning to use a BMI - controlled device can trigger significant neurological recovery in patients with chronic spinal cord injuries.

«Anemia negatively affects recovery from traumatic brain injuries: Finding lays foundation for new treatment protocols for anemic patients.»