Your resume must depict skills to provide quality care to patients, handle emergency situations, and take all precautions
for recovery of patients» health.
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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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
«That means a lower risk
of complications and shorter
recovery time
for patients.»
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.
«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.
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.
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.
The intervention was also not associated with improved neurological status
of full
recovery or mild impairment at discharge
for patients with or without VF.
Doctors Without Borders, which oversees many Ebola clinics in west Africa, is sending home recovered Ebola
patients with a stack
of condoms, and health workers are urging them to only engage in protected sex
for at least three months after
recovery.
Beyond the more typical uses
for weight loss aids, electronic activity monitors may also be useful
for patients when they are released from the hospital as a measure
of recovery and quality
of life.
Treatment and
recovery of the elderly population is even more challenging
for physicians and other caregivers because these
patients are more likely to have other health issues that can complicate their
recovery and rehabilitation.
«There are currently no drug therapies available that improve the very limited natural
recovery from spinal cord injuries that
patients experience,» said Lyn Jakeman, Ph.D., a program director at the NIH's National Institute
of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD. «This is a great step towards identifying a novel agent
for helping people recover.»
Other researchers say the degree
of recovery is remarkable, perhaps even unprecedented, but they caution that the procedure didn't produce a complete cure and may not work as well
for patients who are older or have more severe injuries.
The next phase
of this research will focus on developing models
of rehabilitation to optimize
patient recovery and a program
for caregivers to better prepare them
for their caregiving role, including education and information on community - based resources, access to home care, and how they can draw on social and psychological support.
ECMO support was provided
for a mean
of 5 days, resulting in 13
patients surviving, with seven discharged from the hospital with full neurological
recovery.
This project showed that
patients who had been on a mechanical ventilator
for one - week could be divided into disability risk groups using age and length -
of - stay in an intensive care unit and that these groups determine one - year
recovery and illuminate the details
of functional disability in daily life.
More than 30
patients have been treated
for SCID, and more than 90 percent
of those children have been cured
of their disorder — an improvement over the 50 percent chance
of recovery offered by bone marrow transplants.
The study involved 25 research institutions and 1726 alcoholics who were randomly assigned to 12 weekly sessions
of one
of three types
of individual psychotherapy: cognitive - behavioral therapy (which seeks to teach new ways
of thinking), motivational therapy (in which the
patient is encouraged to take responsibility
for his own
recovery), and a spiritually oriented therapy derived from the philosophy
of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA).
To better understand how the lungs might be involved in Ebola, Dr. Ippolito
of the National Institute
for Infectious Diseases «Lazzaro Spallanzani,» Rome, and colleagues tracked the presence
of Ebola virus genetic material in the lungs and the blood
of a single
patient during treatment and
recovery.
SALT LAKE CITY — The Huntsman Cancer Institute, respected worldwide
for its medical treatment
of patients, also offers Chinese practices
of deep breathing, meditation and gentle movement to help
patients with
recovery.
But
for blood cancer
patients who receive donor hematopoietic stem cell transplants as part
of their treatment, graft - versus - host disease (GVHD) often hampers their
recovery.