Sentences with phrase «not standard treatment»

A very practical tip which I always tell to doctors who want to find the way to increase their legal safety against the possible claims from patients is to carefully record all decisions on treatment in the patient's medical documentation; and in case of any doubtful, risky or not standard treatment which is to be initiated, a physician should always get a written declaration of consent from a patient.

«Because there isn't a standard treatment for super-refractory status epilepticus and those patients diagnosed have such a high death and disability rate, we decided we had to try something different to treat them and test its safety and value.»

Not exact matches

If the standard treatment timeline for a medical condition is three weeks and a patient's progress isn't lining up with that average, the system should automatically flag the case for manual investigation.

The provision therefore violates the equal protection component of the Fifth Amendment right to due process, because it authorizes the Defense Department to afford preferential treatment on the basis of race and does not meet a «strict scrutiny» standard, the appeals court decided.

Robinson says we still have treatment centres in B.C. that aren't regulated and no professional standards.

If there is unfair treatment of women in the LDS church, it is by individuals who alone are not living the standards they promised to keep at baptism.

Essentially, this is a set of sexual Geneva conventions: You never knew it, but not only do you have the right to minimal standards of treatment if you ever become a prisoner of war, but when you were five, you had the right to learn at school all kinds of things about what some people like to do in bed, and if your parents thought that really they'd rather you didn't hear about that stuff at school, or at least not yet, they were... well, they were violating your rights.

Whenever there is a lower standard of treatment for one «sinner» or group of «sinners» than there is for others, it is clearly not about what is or is not sinful.

Normal 1 a: according with, constituting, or not deviating from a norm, rule, or principle b: conforming to a type, standard, or regular pattern 2: occurring naturally and not because of disease, inoculation, or any experimental treatment 3 a: of, relating to, or characterized by average intelligence or development

• The public has been dragged through a labyrinth of denials, retractions, redefinitions and tortured arguments, all designed to justify and rationalize lowered moral standards in the treatment of prisoners, not to strengthen and defend high ethical standards.

The organic certification body demands a few strict standards are met, such as not using certain forms of medicine, fair food treatment, etc..

Even accepting that Article 46 does not contain a just cause provision and thus is not subject to the attendant standards of industrial due process, such as «double discipline» and «disparate treatment,» discipline under the Article must be fair and consistent.

Promising new treatments can be (and are) sometimes unfairly dismissed as not meeting these standards when the complexity / variability of post concussion syndromes makes it hard to construct comparable groups to look at aggregate outcomes of possible different treatments.

For the same reason, it is not easy to prove treatment efficacy by means of controlled, randomized studies, the «gold standard» for evaluating new therapies.

[2] Plus, the study compares PRP to saline or salt water, so it is basically saying that PRP is better than doing nothing, but not comparing it to standard treatments covered by insurance.»

The recommendations in this statement do not indicate an exclusive course of treatment or serve as a standard of medical care.

Some pregnant moms do want the standard treatment, as they are more concerned with GBS than a few doses of intravenous antibiotics, and do not feel the IV in labor will hinder them or their birth dreams.

It is important to know that Hibiclens or vaginal Clindamycin are NOT standard of care in the US, and they are not recognized to date by the medical world as a valid treatment to prevent GBS infection in babiNOT standard of care in the US, and they are not recognized to date by the medical world as a valid treatment to prevent GBS infection in babinot recognized to date by the medical world as a valid treatment to prevent GBS infection in babies.

Although ACOG does not support planned home births given the published medical data, it emphasizes that women who decide to deliver at home should be offered standard components of prenatal care, including group B Strep screening and treatment, genetic screening, as well as HIV screening.

While the standard treatment recommendations of counseling, behavioral therapy, and medication work for some people, the reality is that many do not experience significant symptom relief with those approaches.

Control group women received standard of care treatment, which in our Baby - Friendly hospital includes referrals to the lactation consultant when needed, use of a pump in the hospital, access to 3 breastfeeding classes per week, staff who are highly trained in lactation management, and a free, high - grade electric breast pump for home use if the mother's insurance does not pay for a pump.

This information should not be considered as inclusive of all proper treatments or methods of care or as a statement of the standard of care.

The guidance in this report does not indicate an exclusive course of treatment or serve as a standard of medical care.

In much the same way as government ministers motivated the Asylum and Immigration Act and defended their treatment of refugees in Rochester Prison, the manifesto states that «the vast majority of so - called «refugees» pouring into Britain every year are not real refugees at all but simply people seeking to better their living standards».

Drugs way nastier than marihuana (including methadona, heroine and other opium derivatives) are part of standard medical treatments; making marihuana a prescription drug is not an argument for marihuana legalization because that would mean being for the legalization of novocaine, morphine and all of the other nasty stuff.

I'm aware of the moral implications of accepting such a role and how the opposition can feel they won't receive fair treatment when being reported on within the Evening Standard (as noted in the article).

New York State Parks Department officials say septic systems at five state parks — including Wildwood State Park in Wading River — are not in compliance with current septic treatment standards and will be upgraded.

DiNapoli's review found corrections officials in regional offices throughout the state aren't complying with standards outlined in the Sex Offender Management and Treatment Act.

I do not know the reason, but I do know that a double standard is always taking place in Albany, and it clearly shows with the treatment that was given to others compared with the treatment that was given to Carl Heastie.

«Standard therapy can be very efficient for many patients, but for those who do not respond to conventional treatment we need to find alternatives that will work for their disease.»

But the test also revealed that the standard radiation treatment wasn't wiping out the cancer.

Yet the authors are not just calling for more studies that might lead to shorter standard treatment courses.

About one in ten patients do not survive transplantation following the standard treatments.

Since randomized clinical trials — the gold - standard in research — don't accommodate patients» preferences, Zoellner and her research team used a study design called a «doubly randomized preference trial» to investigate whether giving patients a choice affects their treatment outcomes.

Not long after, Senators Edmund Muskie and Mike Gravel requested that AAAS investigate the treatment of molecular biologist John Gofman and biophysicist Arthur Tamplin, who believed that the Lawrence Berkeley Radiation Laboratory and the Atomic Energy Commission had taken reprisal actions against them for their criticism of AEC low - level radiation standards.

Another problem is that modeling studies, like this one, are inherently less powerful than other kinds of medical research: randomized clinical trials, the gold standard in medical research, in which patients are randomly assigned different treatments or no treatment; case - control studies, which compare patients who have a condition with those who do not; or cohort studies, which determine the risk of contracting a disease by studying a group of people with similar demographics.

When this article was first published, the curves in the graph showing the numbers of people not having relapses of schizophrenia, with standard drug treatment and with minimal treatment, were reversed.

People seeking treatment for anxiety should not feel compelled to seek out EMDR if a competent therapist is available to deliver standard exposure therapy.

It could in future allow the PARP inhibitor olaparib to become a standard treatment for advanced prostate cancer, by targeting the drug at the men most likely to benefit, picking up early signs that it might not be working, and monitoring for the later development of resistance.

The trial enrolled 398 men with cancer that had not spread outside the prostate gland who were judged to be at high risk of treatment failure, based on standard tests for a number of features of the cancer.

In addition, Dietz says his team felt compelled to try losartan in a much smaller group of children and teenagers with Marfan whose aortas were rapidly deteriorating and who weren't being helped by standard treatment.

The strong response to this new use of enzalutamide shows that it can provide a viable, less toxic alternative to chemotherapy in staving off the disease in men who aren't responding to standard first line hormonal treatments,» said Tomasz Beer, M.D., the lead author on the study and deputy director of the Knight Cancer Institute at OHSU.

The team has now also tested the bacteria on a woman with tumours in her liver, lungs and soft tissue that didn't respond to standard treatment.

Most people with glioblastoma multiforme die within a year of diagnosis, as standard treatments can not eradicate these tumours.

Two patients that had previously not responded to available standard treatments, including surgery, external radiation, hormonal and chemotherapy, have received 225Actinium - PSMA - 617 as experimental therapy.

Currently the standard treatment is radiation therapy, which temporarily decreases symptoms but does not cure the disease.

Some cats may not respond to standard treatment regimens, and the medication may not prevent progression of the underlying disease.

We're not saying that yoga will replace standard treatment of mental health conditions in prison.

There is good news: obesity doesn't seem to lessen the effectiveness of corticosteroid inhalers, the standard treatment to ease asthma symptoms such as shortness of breath, coughing and chest pain, said Jason Lang, M.D., a pediatric lung specialist and director of the Duke Children's Pulmonary Function Laboratory, who led the study.

Hepatic encephalopathy occurs when the liver can not remove certain toxins and chemicals, such as ammonia, from the blood.1 These toxins and chemicals then build up and enter the brain.1 Hepatic encephalopathy is one of the major complications of cirrhosis (scarring of the liver), and a leading cause of hospital re-admission due to its recurrence, despite treatment.1 It can occur suddenly in people with acute liver failure, but is seen more often in those with chronic liver disease.1 Symptoms of hepatic encephalopathy include mild confusion, forgetfulness, poor concentration and personality or mood changes, but can progress to extreme anxiety, seizures, severe confusion, jumbled and slurred speech and slow movement.1 The first step in treatment is to identify and treat any factors that cause hepatic encephalopathy.2 Once the episode has resolved, further treatment aims to reduce the production and absorption of toxins, such as ammonia.1 Generally, there are two types of medication used to reduce the likelihood of another hepatic encephalopathy episode — lactulose and rifaximin.2 However, it remains a leading cause of hospitalisations and re-hospitalisations in cirrhotic patients, despite the use of the above - mentioned standard of care treatment.