Sentences with phrase «of amputations in»

In the most severe cases, it becomes necessary to amputate the affected foot or lower leg; diabetic wounds are the leading cause of amputations in the United States.

July 24, 1997 New device permits less invasive approach to leg surgery The University of Chicago Hospitals is one of three medical centers in the United States using a new device, developed by Baxter Healthcare Corp., to restore blood flow to the leg for patients with advanced peripheral vascular disease, the leading cause of amputations in the United States.

Not exact matches

Ms McGowan said society had a tendency to think about workplace injury in terms of visible injury, such as amputations or lacerations.

Of the 399 eligible claims, 124 were deaths and 17 were victims with physical injuries that resulted in quadriplegia, paraplegia, double amputation, permanent brain damage, or pervasive burns.

Another reason for the increased interest in para-athletes are the inspiring, well - publicized stories of American veterans, wounded in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and living with amputations and other physical impairments, who have pursued sports to rehabilitate their lives.

In 2015 the chances of losing a finger or limb in an Alabama parts factory was double the amputation risk nationally for the industry, 65 percent higher than in Michigan and 33 percent above the rate in OhiIn 2015 the chances of losing a finger or limb in an Alabama parts factory was double the amputation risk nationally for the industry, 65 percent higher than in Michigan and 33 percent above the rate in Ohiin an Alabama parts factory was double the amputation risk nationally for the industry, 65 percent higher than in Michigan and 33 percent above the rate in Ohiin Michigan and 33 percent above the rate in Ohiin Ohio.

In this novel Atwood does not abandon biblical history to those who have muted female testimony; instead, she imaginatively writes this testimony back into cultural contexts that would destroy it utterly and that fail to do so, even as she reveals the violence in any amputations of human stories and the historical vulnerability of all speech and silencIn this novel Atwood does not abandon biblical history to those who have muted female testimony; instead, she imaginatively writes this testimony back into cultural contexts that would destroy it utterly and that fail to do so, even as she reveals the violence in any amputations of human stories and the historical vulnerability of all speech and silencin any amputations of human stories and the historical vulnerability of all speech and silence.

How dare Jesus, or anyone, speak to us in terms of amputations, gnashing worms and unquenchable tires!

It is a surgery of last resort... and they often feel like they somehow failed the soldier, even though they selected a lesser tragedy (amputation) in order to avoid the greater tragedy (death).

The case I like to give my bioethics students to illustrate the point — not least because it was pivotal in the historical formulation of the ordinary / extraordinary distinction — is the battlefield amputation of a limb without pain medication, in order to save a soldier's life.

A soldier could refuse, as extraordinary treatment, even a life - saving amputation, in view of the horrific burden of the treatment.

Moreover, he takes the portrait of Jesus in the gospels «as is,» without the surgical amputations of late - eighteenth - century Thomas Jefferson or the late - twentieth - century Jesus Seminar (whose two methodologies are uncannily similar, as Wills rightly points out).

The priestly task of a religious peace movement is to call both Israelis and Palestinians to suffer the amputation of part of their collective, symbolic bodies and agree to two independent states alongside each other in our common homeland.

Working in a factory farm, slaughterhouse, or meat processing facility, brings some of the highest risk of serious job - related injuries including amputations and accidental death.

Tenley's surgery routinely involves such operations as appendectomies and cholecystectomies (removals of the gall bladder), and she has done amputations, subtotal thryoidectomies and, with a senior surgeon in attendance, a subtotal gastrectomy — the partial removal of the stomach, graduate work by any medical standards.

In a harrowing do - it - yourself book, Aron Ralston recounts the tale of his desperate self - amputation

Ensuring people diagnosed with diabetes are able to manage their diabetes effectively in order to reduce their risk of developing long term complications such as heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, blindness and amputation should also be the long term goal of the health service.

If the Tories do rear their «true» head & claim that the cuts will (& should) be permanent, then the debate will be between amputation vs cure in how to deal with the deficit, breaking what patina of consensus still remains between political parties over the necessity of the welfare state.

Neuropathy is nerve damage and a long term complication of diabetes.Neuropathy can lead to foot ulcers and slow - healing wounds which, if they become infected, can result in amputation.

• One in three people with diabetes do not realise that having the condition puts them more at risk of having an amputation.

• # 600m each year goes on treating foot problems in people with diabetes in the UK, and at least # 252m of this is spent on amputation.

Better ways of preventing foot problems in dialysis patients with diabetes could reduce the 100 or so associated amputations that take place every week in the UK, according to Diabetes UK - funded research being presented this week at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Lisbon.

The U.S. Department of Labor has also repeatedly hit Florida Crystals and its offshoots for hazardous work environments in their sugar mills, including «exposing workers to lacerations and amputation injuries.»

No doubt, Igbobi, as the hospital has simply come to be known, symbolises this irony as the hospital is widely reputed for its proficiency in orthopaedics, a branch of medical science mostly associated with pains, agonies and sadness as losing of limbs by amputation is a common feature.

Associate Professor Bryan Fry of UQ's School of Biological Sciences said cobras were killers in Africa and Asia, and caused crippling social and economic burdens through the number of survivors who needed amputations due to the snake's flesh - eating venom.

One of the most unique aspects of regeneration in urodeles that has been well documented is that they regenerate by dedifferentiating their cells at the amputation site.

With more than 25 million cases nationally, type 2 diabetes is America's leading cause of blindness in adults under age 75, kidney failure, and amputation.

The treatment could prevent thousands of diabetic wound - related amputations annually in the U.S.

More than one - fifth of the 27 million type 2 diabetics in the country have chronic, non-healing skin wounds, and many undergo amputation.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), bombing survivors have the highest incidence of injury to soft tissue and musculoskeletal systems with the most extreme injury being traumatic amputation, which is reported in up to 3 % of cases.

A new study in today's issue of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery found minimal risk for severe infection with osseointegrated implants — a newer prosthetic system, press - fitted directly into the femur bone — that enables bone growth over a metal, robotic prosthetic limb in patients with above knee amputations.

The approach, based on Nobel - Prize winning techniques, could illuminate the illness, in which muscles and tendons progressively turn into bone, and addresses the similar destructive process that afflicts a growing number of veterans who have suffered blast injuries — including traumatic amputations or injuries to the brain and nervous system.

In a paper published today in the journal Nature, researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center shed light on this rare regenerative power in mammals, using genetically engineered mice to document for the first time the biochemical chain of events that unfolds in the wake of a fingertip amputatioIn a paper published today in the journal Nature, researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center shed light on this rare regenerative power in mammals, using genetically engineered mice to document for the first time the biochemical chain of events that unfolds in the wake of a fingertip amputatioin the journal Nature, researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center shed light on this rare regenerative power in mammals, using genetically engineered mice to document for the first time the biochemical chain of events that unfolds in the wake of a fingertip amputatioin mammals, using genetically engineered mice to document for the first time the biochemical chain of events that unfolds in the wake of a fingertip amputatioin the wake of a fingertip amputation.

Professor Neal said: «We don't know why there was an increased risk of amputation, and further work is needed in this area.

But for now we urge caution in prescribing this drug to people at increased risk of suffering amputation.»

Diabetic neuropathy nerve damage, which causes a loss of sensation in the hands and feet, can allow small injuries to go unnoticed and become severely infected, to the point where amputation is the only option.

After amputation of an arm, the vast majority of patients continue to feel vividly the presence of the missing arm, a phenomenon termed phantom limb in the late 1800s by physician and author Silas Weir Mitchell.

Each year in the United States 40,000 diabetics get kidney disease, up to 24,000 go blind, and 82,000 have amputations — a toe, foot, or leg — because of vascular failure.

Examples from an 1899 handbook for railway surgeons provided instruction in medical techniques and railroad hazards, such as this image of the inside of an operating room during the amputation of the thigh by «the circular method».

In people with paralysis or amputation, BCI can be used to control the movement of muscles, limbs and prosthetics.

This bizarre shift of tissue systems, known as heterotopic ossification in most cases, can be brought on with spinal cord injury, amputation and even hip surgery.

Stray ends of nerves at the amputation site were redirected into muscle elsewhere in the leg.

Their results, reported in the journal Nature Communications, demonstrate that in patients with chronic pain associated with amputation or nerve injury, there are «crossed wires» in the part of the brain associated with sensation and movement, and that by mending that disruption, the pain can be treated.

In some early cases, amputation of the foot was carried out following the injury.

Neural prosthetic devices implanted in the brain's movement center, the motor cortex, can allow patients with amputations or paralysis to control the movement of a robotic limb — one that can be either connected to or separate from the patient's own limb.

Researchers have identified the cause of chronic, and currently untreatable, pain in those with amputations and severe nerve damage, as well as a potential treatment which relies on engineering instead of drugs.

Further, foot blisters and other diabetic ulcers or sores account for the vast majority of foot and leg amputations in the United States today.

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First, the team rerouted the two main branches of the man's sciatic nerve to muscles in the thigh above the amputation.

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