Sentences with phrase «of elective surgery»

This is clearly evidenced by statistics from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework (HPF 2014) which reports that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples had lower rates of hospitalisations with a procedure recorded compared with non-Indigenous Australians, and they also had lower rates of elective surgery.

Looking good is something we all aspire to do, and at the same time many types of elective surgery are for more than just cosmetic reasons.

This type of early detection would warrant investigation, and in the case of an elective surgery, postponement until the pet is deemed ready.

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.

Linda, appalled at the thought that her body would get her «laughed out of Hollywood,» relentlessly pursues her buffet of elective surgeries.

And they also never abandoned him after the radical blackendectomy and the series of elective surgeries which left him looking like one weird white woman.

Postoperative complications of elective surgeries in dogs and cats determined by examining electronic and paper medical records.

Not exact matches

She explained that the elective surgery was an attempt to end years of chronic pain from endometriosis.

However, the last time that the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees walked out for a one - day strike in November 2013, UC San Diego Medical Center and Thornton Hospital, now called Jacob's Medical Center, moved 171 medical procedures, including 100 elective surgeries, to different days as a reported 840 employees picketed near both facilities.

Undaunted, the supposed guardians of civil liberties — except the free exercise of religion, it seems — recently brought a case against a Catholic hospital for refusing to permit doctors to perform an elective hysterectomy as part of a sex - reassignment surgery.

The removal of the gallbladder (cholecystectomy) is the most common elective abdominal surgery in America, with over 750,000 surgeries per year.

It happens so rarely that the rate of death from AFE (1/1, 000,000) and cord prolapse (1/100, 000) at homebirth is a miniscule fraction of the maternal mortality (1/5, 000) and perinatal mortality (1.7 / 1000) from elective cesarean surgery in hospital (34).

Washington, DC — A new committee opinion from The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) addresses the controversy of elective cesarean delivery, using it as an example of how doctors can ethically help patients make decisions about surgical treatment when there is a lack of firm evidence for or against such surgery.

With women of so many different shapes, sizes, ages and backgrounds seeking breast augmentation, this elective surgery is far from a one - size - fits - all solution to a woman's cosmetic concerns.

Do you have the same level of indignation toward all elective plastic surgery?

Realize that a doctor's definition of elective is any surgery that is planned in advance rather than an emergency, even if it is absolutely necessary.

Until then, it is comforting to know that an increasing number of obstetricians and other health professionals worldwide (including the current Vice-President and former President of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists) are satisfied that elective surgery is favorably comaparable with vaginal delivery, and therefore they support a woman's right to request it.

Incorporating the vast majority of comparative birth studies to date in a contemporary appraisal of elective cesarean delivery in healthy women is flawed, primarily because their data includes outcomes from emergency surgeries and elective surgeries in women (and babies) with pre-existing medical conditions.

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).

Today, approximately 89 % of all hysterectomies are classified as «elective» surgery and are performed for conditions that are not life - threatening.

«Elective deliveries prior to 39 weeks definitely have some increased morbidity,» says Abdulla Al - Khan, MD, the director and chief of maternal and fetal medicine and surgery at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey Other factors such as type of delivery and reason for early term delivery also affect these risks, he says.

The book examines: - why the research shows so little benefit for physiologic care and so little harm from medical - model management - what's behind the cesarean epidemic - what the research establishes as optimal care for initiating labor, facilitating labor progress, guarding maternal and fetal safety, birthing the baby, and promoting safety for mother and baby after the birth - the true, quantified risks of primary cesarean surgery, planned VBAC versus elective repeat cesarean, instrumental vaginal delivery, and regional analgesia - how the organization of the maternity care system adversely impacts care outcomes

Only 8 % of surveyed patients in the United States reported a wait time of four months or more for elective surgery, compared to 33 % in Canada and 41 % in the U.K. Germany scored the best, with only 6 % reporting a long wait for elective surgery.

An editorial in the The New England Journal of Medicine recommends that patients provide informed, written consent to undergo elective surgery by physicians who haven't had enough sleep.

Yannick Le Manach, M.D., Ph.D., of McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and colleagues examined if there was a difference in hospital mortality among patients who underwent hip fracture surgery relative to an elective THR, after adjustment for age, sex, and preoperative medical conditions.

Patients undergoing surgery for a hip fracture are at substantially higher risk of mortality and medical complications compared with patients undergoing an elective total hip replacement (THR).

Patients undergoing surgery for a hip fracture were older and had more medical conditions than patients who underwent an elective total hip replacement, factors that may contribute to the higher risk of in - hospital death and major postoperative complications experienced by hip fracture surgery patients, according to a study in the September 15 issue of JAMA.

To look for potential blood - based markers of delirium, a team led by senior investigators Towia Libermann, PhD and Edward Marcantonio, MD, SM, both of BIDMC, screened plasma from adults without dementia aged 70 and older undergoing major non-cardiac surgery using data from the Successful Aging after Elective Surgerysurgery using data from the Successful Aging after Elective SurgerySurgery Study.

Hip fracture may be associated with physiologic processes that are not present in circumstances leading to elective THR and increase the risk of morbidity and mortality following surgery.»

«Patients undergoing surgery for a hip fracture were older and had more comorbidities than patients who underwent an elective THR, and these differences accounted for some of the difference in outcomes between these groups,» the authors write.

The researchers obtained stem cells from the discarded fat of liposuction patients who underwent elective surgery.

«In examining SAGES patients who had undergone major elective surgery, we compared patients who developed delirium with those who did not,» explained Vasunilashorn, a postdoctoral fellow in the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care at BIDMC and HMS.

Some 54 % of U.S. adults say elective cosmetic surgery leads to about equal benefits and downsides for society, while 26 % express the belief that there are more downsides than benefits, and just 16 % say society receives more benefits than downsides from cosmetic surgery.

«Opioids before surgery means higher costs, more problems afterward, study finds: Research suggests that patients and physicians should be aware of opioid use before elective operations like hysterectomy and bariatric surgery.»

People look at their cost - sharing, and they say this is a lot of money, I'm not sure I can afford it, so they're cutting back on discretionary imaging, they're cutting back on elective surgeries, and on referrals to specialists that might not be covered.

The study cautions patients and surgeons about the administration of cortisone injections within three months of elective hip replacement surgery.

In new findings published online in the journal Annals of Surgery on December 19, 2014, researchers determined the hospital costs and risk of death for emergency surgery and compared it to the same operation when performed in a planned, elective manner for three common surgical procedures: abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, coronary artery bypass graft and colon resSurgery on December 19, 2014, researchers determined the hospital costs and risk of death for emergency surgery and compared it to the same operation when performed in a planned, elective manner for three common surgical procedures: abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, coronary artery bypass graft and colon ressurgery and compared it to the same operation when performed in a planned, elective manner for three common surgical procedures: abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, coronary artery bypass graft and colon resection.

Endotracheal intubation, in which a tube is inserted through the voice box (larynx) into the windpipe, and tracheotomy, in which surgery is undertaken to create a hole through the neck and into the windpipe (trachea) to facilitate breathing, are widely used in the hospital setting for elective surgery and in cases of serious illness or critical injury.

To obtain a broad sample of patients undergoing non-cardiac inpatient procedures, such as hip or knee replacements, researchers examined elective, urgent and emergency surgeries as well as procedures performed during the day, at night, on weekdays and on weekends.

They observed similar results in ART - controlled, HIV - infected patients who had undergone elective abdominal surgery: their SVF samples are positive for HIV DNA, and the researchers could show the presence of infected and virus - producing cells within the patients» adipose tissue and more specifically among adipose CD4 + T cells.

The study population was drawn from the Successful Aging after Elective Surgery (SAGES) study and included participants 70 years of age or older who were scheduled to undergo elective surgery with an anticipated stay of at leastElective Surgery (SAGES) study and included participants 70 years of age or older who were scheduled to undergo elective surgery with an anticipated stay of at least Surgery (SAGES) study and included participants 70 years of age or older who were scheduled to undergo elective surgery with an anticipated stay of at leastelective surgery with an anticipated stay of at least surgery with an anticipated stay of at least 3 days.

«Trajectory of functional recovery after postoperative delirium: Delirium after elective surgery results in a less successful recovery.»

Other ongoing research projects focus on assessing orthopedic surgeon attitudes about ethical issues, patient selection for elective surgery, and the ethics of concurrent surgery.

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Also, make sure to inform your surgeon or anesthesiologist about your intake of other blood thinners like aspirin, persantine or coumadin if you are thinking about having elective surgery.

That said, would you not also agree that part of the reason vegetarians have fewer surgeries and take fewer drugs is a psychological issue; those who consciously make healthy food decisions are less likely to run to the doctor when something is wrong and are less likely to take prescription meds or have elective surgeries.

There are countless examples of «expert physicians» who have given extremely bad recommendations over the years — from insistence in the 1950s - 60s that cigarette smoking is not harmful, to cardiologists in the 1970s recommending potent (and toxic) anti-arrhythmic drugs for the treatment of benign PVCs — until randomized controlled trials documented increased mortality in the treatment group, to numerous unnecessary surgeries that used to be commonplace (such as tonsillectomies, elective C - sections, spinal fusion for back pain, etc., etc..

Supporters of elective c - sections say that this surgery may protect a woman's pelvic organs, reduces the risk of bowel and bladder problems, and is as safe for the baby as vaginal delivery.

I got my tonsils out when I was five and then had the horrendous botched surgery last year that has cured me of ever wanting elective or any other kind of surgery again.

(In English and Afrikaans with subtitles) Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (R for profanity and sexual humor) Revealing bio-pic chronicling a year in the life of the legendary comedienne / elective plastic surgery devotee.