Sentences with phrase «more stable patients»

During extremely busy periods, more stable patients may need to wait while these critical cases are stabilized.

Not exact matches

In addition, clinicians have long known that cystic fibrosis patients with stable lung function who do not lose weight are more likely to live longer.

Although aspirin reduces the risk of major cardiovascular events by 19 per cent, a more effective antithrombotic strategy could have major benefits for the large population of patients with stable cardiovascular disease.

However, the team found that the Zika virus is more thermally stable than the dengue virus, and is also structurally stable even when incubated at 40 degrees Celsius, mimicking the body temperature of extremely feverish patients after virus infection.

The patient's brain signals were decoded by an electrocorticographic (ECoG) implant that can cover a large area of the brain, taking in and translating information from many groups of neurons and providing more stable readings than have been achieved through other methods.

Patients were categorized into three groups: those who lost more than 10 percent of their body weight, those who lost five to 10 percent of their body weight, and a control group whose weight remained stable.

«While these observational data can not prove that treating patients based on the results of CTA testing will automatically result in better health outcomes, they do provide new information enabling a more informed choice of testing for patients with stable chest pain, especially for predicting future cardiovascular risk.»

Good candidates for the NCES procedure have stable vitiligo, in which not more than 10 percent worsening has been seen in the last year and patients with segmental vitiligo, a type that appears on only one side of the face or body.

The team studied more than 4,000 patients (adults and children) who were taking daily asthma medicines and focused their analysis on two groups: patients who had stable asthma for at least one year who stayed on their same daily asthma medicine and patients who had stable asthma for at least one year who stepped down their daily asthma medicine.

The disease control rate (defined as partial response or stable disease for more than 12 weeks) for all patients was 32 percent (6 of the 19 patients) and 50 percent (three of six patients) in patients who received one prior line of chemotherapy.

Among all patients, those receiving either amiodarone or lidocaine required significantly fewer shocks to achieve a stable heart rhythm and were significantly more likely to survive to hospital admission.

The study showed that the SOX9 protein becomes more stable in the tumor cell when FBW7 is mutated, which can cause more harm to the patient.

It was assumed therefore that strengthening the core muscles would make a spine more stable and less painful, even though very few patients with low back pain show symptoms of «instability».

It is likely that orthopedic patients are more stable (i.e. lower ASA score).

However, patient selection is far more important in FHO's than in THR's since the FHO is not initially as stable as the THR and the surgery has a much longer recovery period (good weight bearing seem typically within 1 month and full recovery in 4 to 6 months).

Patients with life - threatening problems are seen immediately while more stable pets are seen in order of arrival.

Medication can help manage HCM, and can be administered orally to stable patients or by injection in more serious situations.

These treatment goals are addressed by the administration of cardiac medications, which may be delivered by injection in emergent situations, or orally in patients that are more stable.

In the realm of trait variables, in a longitudinal study of stable outpatients involving an initial assessment and a 9 - mo follow - up session, 24 those who scored high on a self - report measure of trait anxiety at the initial assessment and who experienced one or more «independent» stressful life events (ie, events not caused by patient behavior) during the month prior to the follow - up session showed significant increases in psychotic symptoms compared with those who either were low in trait anxiety or had no independent stressful life events.