Sentences with phrase «of avoiding surgery»

«Throughout the last two decades there has been a growing interest in these non-surgical therapies, which offer the possibility of avoiding surgery and reducing demands on busy medical practices.»

So, after contemplating where I'd feel most comfortable, which local providers I felt respected me most and what type of birth experience would give me the best odds of avoiding surgery (and other interventions that might impact my long - term sexual health and satisfaction), I chose to give birth at home with midwives.

Not exact matches

My partners, Mike Glennon and Brian deGuzman, and I, developed AngioVac, a tube inserted into a vein which vacuums clots out of the body, avoiding the need for open surgery.

Health fund Bupa will publish surgery costs to put pressure on fee - gouging surgeons and help customers avoid shock out - of - pocket costs.

Identifying more accurately low risk pre-cancerous lesions avoids unnecessary surgeries and allows clinicians to monitor patients regularly for peace of mind.

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).

I'm putting containers of food in the freezer for my rehab time right now, having knee replacement surgery soon, and will avoid all institutionally prepared foods if I can.

Not allowed right now, as I recover from a (non horse related) ankle injury... so I'm doing lots of isometric work on my ankle, and hoping I can avoid surgery.

In hindsight, it all started going downhill in the summer of 2011 when Jack suffered an ankle injury on England duty in June, and in an attempt to avoid surgery, had to wear a protective boot to guard the right ankle.

But these aside, of course you hope to avoid surgery.

Every medic wants to avoid this, surgery is the last resort so it takes weeks of careful observation.

There was initial hope that surgery could be avoided, but the decision to correct the problem and give Mane enough time to recuperate ahead of the new campaign was the most sensible course of action.

I have a totally lay understanding but what he told me made quite a bit of sense which is that yes, a c - section is major abdominal surgery and it's good to avoid it while all the other indicators are basically equal.

Certainly it isn't as if they got to avoid surgery, because all of them required some form of reconstructive surgery, with variable outcomes.

When I heard that surgery was needed, there was one question in the back of my mind: could the surgery have been avoided if I would have stopped skiing after my crash?

The other half, of course, can be lifesaving surgeries that ensure the safest delivery for a mother and her baby, so it's impossible to guarantee that you can avoid a C - section.

Sometimes with just a few more minutes of pushing, a whole unnecessary surgery could be avoided.

But whether most of the participants had the surgery or not, the study found that nearly all of them avoided the term breasts and preferred to call their upper torso their chest.

The vast majority of doctors would rather avoid performing surgery if possible, and «making it home on time» isn't something that happens for them, either.

For example, women who achieve VBAC avoid major abdominal surgery and have lower rates of hemorrhage, thromboembolism, and infection, and a shorter recovery period than women who have an elective repeat cesarean delivery (2, 3, 7, 9, 33).

Many women don't want to deliver in a hospital because they fear their choices — to avoid drugs, to avoid surgery, to be surrounded by their families, to be with the baby immediately after delivery — will be taken away, said Carolyn L. Gegor, program director of the Nurse Midwifery / Women's Health Nurse Practitioner Program in the School of Nursing and Health Studies at Georgetown University Medical Center.

In the future, ultrasound scans of the carotid artery will lead to the ability to perform surgery at an earlier stage in some cases, and the ability to avoid surgery completely in others.

This can help healthcare providers determine the risk of strokes and heart attacks — which means avoiding unnecessary surgery for many patients.

The study showed that gay men were much more likely than heterosexual men to report feeling pressure from the media to look attractive, to avoid having sex because of how they felt about their bodies, and to desire cosmetic surgery.

«There is a global interest in avoiding general anesthesia in breast cancer surgery whenever possible because of potential long - term effects.

Ninety - seven percent of bariatric surgery patients avoided post-operative nausea and vomiting (PONV) with the addition of a second drug to the standard treatment given during surgery, according to a study presented at the ANESTHESIOLOGY ™ 2013 annual meeting.

Whether it is American senior citizens driving into Canada in order to buy cheap prescription drugs or Canadians coming to the U.S. for surgery in order to avoid long wait times, the relative merits of these two nations» health care systems are often cast in terms of anecdotes.

The first long - term study of a pioneering endoscopic laser treatment for early vocal - cord cancer, developed at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and previously shown to provide optimal voice outcomes, finds that it is as successful as traditional approaches in curing patients» tumors while avoiding the damage to vocal quality caused by radiotherapy or by conventional laser or cold - instrument surgery.

We hope that our work has given a lead towards a way of avoiding patients having to undergo this kind of aggressive surgery.»

The surgery should be aggressive in an attempt to remove all visible signs of the tumour, and to avoid leaving any residual disease.

With VEGF - A and CEA, we believe we may have invented a test that can help that group of patients who don't have a risk of cancer get off the testing cycle and avoid surgery which, in and of itself, has a risk of mortality or complications,» said C. Max Schmidt, MD, PhD, FACS, study author and professor of surgery and biochemical / molecular biology, Indiana University School of Medicine.

«Evolving technologies like this image - guided treatment may help a substantial number of patients avoid surgery.»

Chen — together with clinical partners C. Keith Ozaki, MD, FACS, a surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital who has expertise in leg ischemia, and Joseph Woo, MD, the head of cardiothoracic surgery at Stanford University — have developed a patch that fosters the growth of new vessels while avoiding some of the problems of other approaches.

They suggest that patients undergoing surgery can be informed about PBM, and the steps that can be taken to reduce the need for blood transfusion — and thus avoid Zika transmission and other potential risks of blood transfusion.

But antibiotic treatment could be a first line of defense: Almost 73 percent of patients who got antibiotics avoided surgery in the year following treatment.

This can be useful to recommend that these tumors do not be conformed to surgery and determine that it will probably be necessary to administer adjuvant chemotherapy in other words, in those tumors with a more «benign» epigenetic pattern; surgery alone may be curative, thus avoiding the side effects of chemotherapy, «concludes the researcher.

«Proper identification of the thyroid and parathyroid glands during head and neck surgery is critical for avoiding accidental injury, but presents a significant challenge due to their small size and variations in location from patient to patient,» says Richard Conroy, Ph.D., Director of the Division of Applied Science & Technology at NIBIB.

In a study appearing today in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS)(a research summary was presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeonsin March), researchers found that universal neuromuscular training for high school and college - age athletes — which focuses on the optimal way to bend, jump, land and pivot the knee — is an effective and inexpensive way to avoid ACL sprains and tears.

The results emphasize the clinical benefit of weight - loss surgery and the monetary gains that result from avoiding obesity - related illnesses.

«This work highlights an example of using cutting - edge machine learning technology to avoid unnecessary surgery,» says Marc Kohli, director of clinical informatics in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at the University of California at San Francisco.

Working with colleagues at the University of Chicago, our experts created a new combination chemotherapy and radiation therapy treatment regimen that helps some patients with advanced head and neck cancer avoid major surgery.

«We were able to produce an exceedingly high local control rate, avoid surgery and dramatically improve patient survival,» said study director Everett Vokes, MD, professor of medicine and section chief of hematology / oncology at the University of Chicago.

Their goal is to markedly reduce the chance that cancer cells are present at the edge of the lumpectomy specimen, thereby avoiding the expense and discomfort of repeat surgery to ensure that the tumor has been completely removed.

So I called Joshua Copel, MD, a professor of obstetrics, gynecology, reproductive sciences, and pediatrics at Yale University School of Medicine, and asked him whether a woman with such a debilitating condition should undergo or avoid the curative surgery.

But I've had to enter into a very sort of rigorous rehabilitation program to avoid surgery on my back.

Richard Diana, M.D., author of Healthy Joints for Life: An Orthopedic Surgeon's Proven Plan to Reduce Pain and Inflammation, Avoid Surgery and Get Moving Again, retired from the Miami Dolphins after Super Bowl XVII to attend Yale School of Medicine.

Vitamin E can have a blood thinning effect, so most surgeons and anesthesiologists will ask about Vitamin E use prior to elective surgery, and request that the Vitamin E be discontinued a week in advance of elective surgery to avoid bleeding complications.

You might have to take a little bit of time off, but that's a small price to pay to avoid permanent disc damage or possible surgery.

By changing to a plant based diet, the buildup of plaque in the heart could be reversed, and the need for surgery was avoided.

Because of the limitations I've accepted in order to avoid surgery, I can no longer run or jump as part of exercising — which makes it hard to lose the weight that makes things worse for my knees!