Sentences with phrase «invasive procedures compared»

Although more study is needed to evaluate the surgery's outcomes compared with more standard procedures, the benefits — such as less pain and a quicker recovery time — are often seen with minimally invasive procedures compared to more invasive surgeries, said Dr. Brandon Isaacson, Associate Professor of Otolaryngology — Head and Neck Surgery who performed the surgeries.

Not exact matches

He would also like to see more studies that directly compare olfaction testing with costly and invasive procedures such as brain scans and spinal taps.

«Retrieving a clot from within the heart used to require open - heart surgery, resulting in longer hospitalization, recovery and rehabilitation times compared to the minimally invasive approach provided by the AngioVac system,» said Dr. Murray Kwon, a UCLA cardiothoracic surgeon who collaborated on Dunlap's procedure.

For patients with osteoarthritis of the knee, a minimally invasive procedure called cooled radiofrequency ablation (CRFA) provides better pain reduction and functional improvement compared to steroid injection of the knee, concludes a study in Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine, published by Wolters Kluwer.

For example, when she and her colleagues used the database to compare complication rates between minimally invasive surgery and open surgery in the four procedures, they found that minimally invasive appendectomies had about one - half the complications of open appendectomies.

Rates of hospitalizations (65 percent vs 42 percent), ICU admissions (36 percent vs 15 percent), invasive procedures (51 percent vs 27 percent), and death in a hospital or nursing facility (74 percent vs 14 percent) were higher for nonhospice beneficiaries compared to hospice patients.

When possible, minimally invasive surgeries — which use smaller incisions compared to a traditional open procedure — will be performed.

It's worth noting that survival rates for heart attack patients are better on weekdays compared to weekends, because medical personnel are more likely to use invasive procedures (including angioplasty and bypass surgery) during the week.

Compared to IVF the procedure is «mechanically more invasive, and bypasses a number of selection processes that may otherwise preclude that sperm from fertilization,» Davies says.

It is cost cost effective compared to other procedures, downtime is minimal, and any health risk is much less than that of other more invasive treatments.

Another minimally invasive procedure, is a modern technique in which abdominal surgery is performed through a few small incisions, as compared to one larger with traditional surgery.