Sentences with phrase «of deceased patients»

In addition, the researchers looked at brain samples of deceased patients with MS and found increased numbers of GM - CSF - producing cells in comparison to normal brain samples.

The presence of the dead, snarled nerve cells and sticky protein fragments characteristic of Alzheimer's in the main smell - processing structures of these deceased patients could suggest the disease gets its start in the olfactory system.

A single member of the deceased patient's family (usually the executor of the estate) should receive the information in the family's behalf

Federal Appeals Court Sides With HIPAA Over Florida Law in «Catch 22» Case Over the Release of Deceased Patient Records by Nursing Homes

Only the duly appointed representative of the estate of a deceased patient may obtain a copy of that patient's medical records.

(b) Health care facilities and practitioners are authorized to provide a copy of a deceased patient's records

Not exact matches

The Nigeria Police Force has however implored family of the deceased to be patient for justice to prevail.

A team led by geneticist Steven McCarroll of the Broad Institute, based in Cambridge, Mass., combed through genetic information from about 29,000 schizophrenia cases, 36,000 controls and 700 brain samples from deceased patients.

«Patients on dialysis are living longer and equally positive, survival rates have steadily improved among recipients of both living and deceased donor kidney transplants.»

In numbers far higher than national statistics predicted, his current and deceased patients» homes were clustered around lakes and other bodies of water.

Using a technique called nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, the researchers measured the concentrations of 21 metabolites key to nerve function in the brains of 10 deceased schizophrenia patients and 12 normal human controls.

The research team identified potential deceased donors based on specific criteria such as a ventilated inpatient death of a patient 75 years or younger, without multi-organ system failure, sepsis, or cancer, and whose cause of death was consistent with organ donation — which includes neurologic determination of death (DNDD) or circulatory determination of death (DCDD).

Of the 2,103 living donor transplant and 46,674 deceased donor transplants recipients analyzed, the three - year patient survival rate for deceased donor recipients was 78 percent compared with 83 percent for living donor transplants that were performed at experienced centers.

An August 15 functional MRI study in NeuroImage shows that in CG patients reminders of the deceased activate a brain area associated with reward processing, pleasure and addiction.

Brain networks associated with social pain became activated in all women, but in the CG patients reminders of the deceased also excited the nucleus accumbens, a forebrain area most commonly associated with reward.

To assess possible inherited mutations, the team also sequenced samples from the deceased patients» parents in nine of the cases.

Grima also observed this same clumping of Huntingtin protein with RanGAP1 and nuclear pore proteins to the wrong place in the cell in brain tissue and cultured brain cells derived from deceased patients with Huntington's disease.

For instance, the feeling of being dead is not limited to near - death experiences — patients with Cotard or «walking corpse» syndrome hold the delusional belief that they are deceased.

To understand why these kidneys are not being used, with the goal of improving kidney utilization, reducing wait times, and providing transplants to more patients, a team led by Sumit Mohan, MD, MPH and S. Ali Husain, MD, MPH (Columbia University Medical Center) analyzed information on deceased donors from whom both kidneys were procured but only one was transplanted from 2000 - 2015.

A slide shows three images of the same section of brain from a deceased patient who had Alzheimer's disease.

In a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a research team led by Carlo Condello presented their results from a study of the sliced brain fragments of deceased Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients.

Analysis of the sample can determine if a kidney donor (potential live kidney donor or deceased kidney donor) or a patient inherited two APOL1 gene renal - risk variants that contribute to poorer renal allograft survival after transplantation.

In the case of the eight patients in the study, Collinge said that it's likely they acquired a-beta amyloid seeds from the hormone harvested from the deceased elderly who donated their organs for that purpose.

The all - star cast of the new film includes Claire Bloom as Lewis» deceased wife, Dean Stockwell as another movie legend, Kevin Pollak as Lewis» anguished son and «Halt and Catch Fire» breakthrough star Kerry Bishé as Lewis» patient granddaughter.

Farrell plays a surgeon who has befriended the son (Barry Keoghan) of a deceased former patient.

A year after getting shot by a former patient (who then shot himself), Malcolm takes up the case of Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment), a troubled 8 - year - old who exhibits some of Malcolm's deceased patient's symptoms.

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• Ability to properly handle and restrain patients with respiratory or cardiac compromise • Properly prep and scrub patients for sterile diagnostic procedures • Monitor patient parameters and notify doctor of potential concerns • Take proactive role in life - saving techniques including CPR, as necessary • Properly record patient vitals and trends on anesthesia flow sheet • Perform patient blood work including hematology • Proper handling of diagnostic specimens during procedure and facilitating the proper care and transfer to laboratory including accurate request forms and documentation • Ensure that proper procedures and documentation are followed during deceased patient aftercare • Client communications according to hospital policy • Medication administration for in house patients and refill processing for Internal Medicine patients • Outstanding nurse care • Ability to place catheters and draw blood from patients with compromised veins (peripheral or jugular).

In The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker, YOU are a psychiatrist, trying to solve a murder whilst treating the unusual patients of the recently deceased Doctor Dekker.

In it, YOU a play the role of a psychiatrist, trying to solve a murder whilst treating the unusual patients of the recently deceased Doctor Dekker.

In this case, the injured patient, or the survivors of the deceased, may be able to file a medical malpractice claim to recover compensation as a result of the damages suffered.

Seven deceased patients of Hedrick were used as focal example in the complaint.

In addition to establishing a doctor or other medical professional's duty and breach of the duty of care owed to a patient, the testimony of medical experts may also be relied upon to establish the cause or causes of a patient's injury or death and the damages suffered by the injured patient or the deceased patient's survivors as a result of the injury or death.

Stoakes v. Gore Products liability case brought by widow of deceased heart transplant patient claiming that Gore - Tex suture failed after transplant surgery (Chicago).

If nursing home neglect resulted in the patient's wrongful death, surviving family members are entitled to damages for the loss of relationship with the deceased.

The doctor who is alleged to have steered mesothelioma patients to the law firm of then - New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver treated a now - deceased man 22 days before Silver's firm filed a lawsuit on the man's behalf that resulted in an $ 11 million verdict.

The breach was discovered by an individual who found the ePHI of the individual's deceased partner (and a former patient at New York — Presbyterian) on the Internet and made a complaint to the hospital.

In any other case, a request from a claimant for access to a deceased patient's medical records should be handled under the AHRA, where the holder of the medical records may charge for copying and postage.

The IPT therapist helped patients to arrive at a more realistic assessment of the relationship with the deceased, addressing both its positive and negative aspects, and encouraged the pursuit of satisfying relationships and activities.