Sentences with phrase «in dead patients»

As Oswald, the hero of Plague Land tells it, most fourteenth - century medical practices were hit - or - miss experiments, with the misses resulting in dead patients and blood everywhere.

Not exact matches

Here's a news item that has interesting theological implications: Medical review boards in both the U.S. and India have granted permission to two biotech companies to experiment with new technology that they hope could bring back patients who are brain dead — something currently considered impossible.

New York City emergency medicine specialist Stephen Wall has endorsed a program in which patients who suffer trauma or cardiac arrest are afforded some resuscitation efforts, but if these fail and the patient is pronounced dead (as determined by a remote authority), CPR will be continued — on the dead patient — until a relative or other surrogate can give consent for organs to be harvested.

Of particular interest is the revelationthat almost half of the doctors who responded «agreed that patients in the PVS should be considered dead.

Most physicians in both groups believe that patients in the PVS would be better off dead; that it is not necessary to provide aggressive therapeutic interventions; and that all therapeutic interventions, including artificial nutrition and hydration, can be withheld in certain circumstances.

I even say in my mind, â $ œHeâ $ ™ s dead!â $ Then, just when it is certain that the heart has failed and the patient is dead, the heart throbs and begins beating!

Medical personnel at the Buffalo VA Medical Center failed to try to resuscitate a patient suffering cardiac arrest in late 2016, pronouncing him dead even though they should have tried to save his life, the Department of Veterans Affairs Inspector General's Office said in a devastating report that recommended sweeping improvements in the facility's practices during life - or - death emergencies.

Hundreds of overdose victims in Erie County are dead because major pharmaceutical companies misled doctors and patients into believing that highly addictive, prescription painkillers were safe, said Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz, who is suing the companies in state Supreme Court.

Hundreds of overdose victims in Erie County are dead because major pharmaceutical companies misled doctors and patients into believing that highly addictive, prescription painkillers were safe, Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz said.

Question nine of the PHQ - 9 explores suicidality and asks patients if they have been bothered in the past two weeks by thoughts that they would be better off dead or hurting themselves.

The general rule for treatment of patients in cardiac arrest is that once resuscitation measures have begun, they must be continued uninterruptedly until the patient shows signs of life or is pronounced dead.

Dr. Gregory Liptak, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, wrote: «Patients who are brain dead often have unusual spontaneous movements when they are disconnected from their ventilators....

He is chairman of the department of anesthesiology at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey, and he points out that an anesthesiologist creates brain - dead patients every day: «We give drugs to make them die.

Although the Harvard criteria were based on zero patients and no experiments were conducted either with humans or animals, they soon became the standard for declaring people dead in several states, and in 1981, the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) was sanctioned by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.

In another case, a 30 - year - old patient with severe head trauma was declared brain dead by two doctors.

The presence of the dead, snarled nerve cells and sticky protein fragments characteristic of Alzheimer's in the main smell - processing structures of these deceased patients could suggest the disease gets its start in the olfactory system.

They will have to address side effects such as the flulike symptoms and the kidney failure that occurred in one patient due to all the dead cells the body had to cleanse from the blood.

NEW YORK — In 30 years as an oncologist, Dr. Howard Fine estimates he has treated some 20,000 patients with glioblastomas, the most deadly form of brain cancer, «and almost all of them are dead.»

In working with Cambodian refugees, psychiatrist Devon Hinton of Harvard Medical School in Boston encouraged patients to make customary offerings to the deaIn working with Cambodian refugees, psychiatrist Devon Hinton of Harvard Medical School in Boston encouraged patients to make customary offerings to the deain Boston encouraged patients to make customary offerings to the dead.

To do this, they switched from using dead tumour cell samples to patient - derived tumour cell lines, in which fresh samples of a person's tumour are grafted onto mice and grown to the required volumes.

The procedure, which involved attaching the nose, chin, cheeks, and lips of a 46 - year - old brain - dead woman, set off a firestorm of criticism that lingered even after the French surgeons declared in July 2006, in the medical journal The Lancet, that the graft was «successful with respect to appearance, sensitivity, and acceptance by the patient.»

The report «provides hope that even primitive tissues made from stem cells will one day restore the function of dead or diseased organs in patients,» he adds.

As a medical student in 1950 one of my patients was a boy of my age dying of kidney failure and I was instructed to make him comfortable for he would be dead in two weeks.

Most of all my chronic psoriasis patients had failed many times and followed enough dead - end streets when it came to psoriasis recovery.When I formulated the Psoriasis Program, my goal was to create the most complete natural psoriasis solution covering every facet of treatment in a way that was easy to understand, follow and implement in your life, yet was proven to be highly effective, scientific and clinically - proven.

My patients can take pride in knowing that there is a 100 percent natural and drug - free way to stop psoriasis dead in it's tracks - before it ruins their lives...

«Interestingly, all of our cancer patients tend to come in around 4.5 or below, which is interesting because it suggests, from a hydration standpoint... cancer doesn't happen until you're so dry that you're nearly dead.

Many acne patients have embraced papaya in particular, boasting that papaine can dissolve dead skin cells, exfoliate your face, and cause a flush of blood and circulation.

This debut feature from writer - director David Veloz, based on a 1995 autobiography, starkly retells Stahl's rise and fall in LA - LA - land over the course of a multi-day shack - up with ex-addict Kitty (E.R.'s Maria Bello), a sucker for rehab patients who coaxes him away from a dead - end job (in, appropriately, Phoenix) in favor of sex (initially as frigid as the frozen chicken he was hacking at only hours earlier at his fast - food outpost) and conversation.

The English Patient is at most a feature for dreamy young adults (especially those who consider it romantic for a character to become a Nazi in order to spend time with a former lover's dead body), and even the good points of The Crucible and Ghosts of Mississippi don't include the sort of insights that ought to come with age.

Miranda awakens from the experience to find is she's in her hospital again, not as a doctor, but as one of the patients, and is informed that her husband is dead and she is the killer, and everyone thinks she is crazy.

Based on the acclaimed graphic novel and developed by Frank Darabont (The Mist, Shawshank Redemption) much in The Walking Dead would be familiar to both horror and sci - fi genre fans, right from the patient awaking from a coma to a post-apocalyptic future (28 Days Later..., Day of the Triffids) to a planet overrun by zombies.

The writing is the first problem with «Huff», leaning hard as it does on the Dr. Phil Handbook for Fake Shrinks in its therapy sessions (leave out the dead gay kid, incidentally, and until episode four's guy - who - refuses - to - shit Huff's patients all appear to be beautiful women) and making the bad mistake of thinking that castrating bitch goddess mothers (Blythe Danner, playing Estelle Getty), nymphomaniac wives (Paget Brewster), and precious / precocious kids (Anton Yelchin) will write themselves out of narrative Bermuda Triangles.

An awakening of a mentally - impaired patient also occurs in Music Never Stopped, but the drug responsible this time around is the Grateful Dead.

The performance is inspired by a psychosis diagnosed in 1880 by French neurologist Jules Cotard, whose patient believed she was organless, dead, and, paradoxically, immortal.

Childish's paintings generally revolve around the figure isolated in landscape: oystermen on heavy flat riverboats; a woman and children riding a sleigh in the nineteenth - century Yukon; the Swiss writer Robert Walser dead in the snow outside the psychiatric hospital where he was a patient.

In medical terms the non-monotonic curves correspond to a situation where dead patients spring back into life if you wait long enough.

One of the most serious forms of medical malpractice is a medication error that leaves a patient seriously harmed, or in the most tragic of cases, dead.

Patient 11: In late July 2012, a 42 year old refugee claimant from Africa who had been beaten and left for dead in the street and who was suffering from chronic severe abdominal pain as a result was dropped by her physician once her IFH coverage was cancelled and she was unable to afford the feeIn late July 2012, a 42 year old refugee claimant from Africa who had been beaten and left for dead in the street and who was suffering from chronic severe abdominal pain as a result was dropped by her physician once her IFH coverage was cancelled and she was unable to afford the feein the street and who was suffering from chronic severe abdominal pain as a result was dropped by her physician once her IFH coverage was cancelled and she was unable to afford the fees.

In November of 2012, The New York Times published a report about an elderly patient suffering from dementia who was found dead in her rooIn November of 2012, The New York Times published a report about an elderly patient suffering from dementia who was found dead in her rooin her room.

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Ever since I saw a picture of Florence Nightingale in a textbook at my early youth carrying a lamp caring for sick patients in the dead of the night, I knew my calling in life - I was to help the sick.

In the words of Gay Norman a Planned Parenthood and BCCS patient from Waco: «If I hadn't come to Planned Parenthood, there was no way I could have had care with no insurance... I would be dead if it hadn't been for this program.»