Sentences with phrase «of painful procedures»

Some type of pain relief was used in about 20 % of the painful procedures; they included giving the baby a sugar solution to drink, a pacifier to suck on, or both.

In contrast, the median number of painful procedures was 32.

Both of the painful procedures, but not the other stimuli, elicited an identically large response, detectable by an electrode placed at the top of the head approximately half a second later.

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When I left my previous job, I underwent the painful, but necessary procedure of transferring my pension (yes, I was one of those people) into a registered RRSP and locked in retirement account (LIRA).

The Fortune 500 company — which runs the dining operations at thousands of schools and other institutions across the country — is tackling three key area where industrial agriculture has been badly failing in its production model: intensive confinement, painful procedures and practices, and unnaturally fast growth.

The risks to NOT doing skin to skin include: unstable temperatures in the baby (Walters et all., 2007; Fransson, Karlsson, & Nilsson, 2005; Bergman, Linley, & Fawcus, 2004), more maternal stress and less satisfaction with breastfeeding (Anderson, 2004), less desire by the mother to hold her infant (Anderson 2004), less ability of the baby to smell the natural scent of mother's milk (Marlier & Schaal, 2005) and greater pain for baby with more crying during painful procedures (Johnston, 2003).

It really isn't a matter of will in the meaning we give to enduring painful procedures or even resist the chocolate of our dreams in our strive for better health, It's different.

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Historically, doctors did not use any sort of anesthesia or pain relief prior to the procedure which can be quite painful.

I have participated in countless painful procedures done in the desperate hope of saving a baby.

If your child needs painful procedures or long tests and is naturally anxious and worried, the PICU sedation staff, with the help of Child Life Specialists, provide helpful distractions before, during and after the procedure to calm and reassure your child.

«But, we were very surprised to find out that if babies experience more painful procedures early in life, their sense of gentle touch can be affected.»

This often causes PTSD, and it's because of witnessing the baby experience multiple painful procedures and due to the fear and feelings of helplessness and sometimes guilt or poor treatment involved.

* SOOTHING TECHNIQUES Massage: According to Tiffany Field, Ph.D., director of the Touch Research Institute at Florida's University of Miami School of Medicine, gentle massage can decrease a baby's stress responses to painful procedures such as inoculations; reduce the discomfort of teething, gas, constipation, and colic; and help induce sleep.

If your child needs painful procedures or long tests and is naturally anxious and worried, our sedation staff, with the help of Child Life Specialists, are on hand to provide helpful distractions before, during and after the procedure to calm and reassure your child.

For premature babies, the experience of touch is mostly painful as they endure a barrage of medical procedures and tubes.

Ince's new method to locate the seizure onset zone, reported in Brain, A Journal of Neurology, could save patients weeks of hospitalization, reduce complications and costs associated with what has traditionally been an arduous, and often painful, procedure.

While previous research supported the effectiveness of distraction during painful procedures, specifically needle pain, the investigators hypothesized that the new VR technology, an arguably more powerful and immersive intervention could be even more effective at reducing pain and anxiety.

They performed the heel prick procedure on the babies, which is used routinely to obtain blood samples, and applied low - intensity forces to the surfaces of their feet, a mildly painful experimental procedure that feels a bit like being gently poked with a blunt pencil.

Slater adds, «We will test whether babies who are given morphine experience less pain, and whether reducing pain during a painful eye exam improves stability of the heartbeat and breathing after the procedure.»

Image courtesy of iStockphoto / adventtr More than 382,000 people with kidney disease in the U.S. are on dialysis, a painful procedure that can wreak havoc on blood vessels due to constant jabs from large needles.

«The letter, which comes in response to an aggressive campaign by the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), claims that for more than 30 years researchers at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) have been «removing [macaques] from their mothers at birth and subjecting them to distressful and sometimes painful procedures that measure their anxiety and depression.»»

An implant that responds to light — or that glows in the presence of certain compounds — could reduce the need for some painful medical procedures

For his Ph.D., Franco has been researching the application of the «three R's» of animal experimentation — ethical principles first proposed in 1959 that include, where possible, «replacement» of the use of animals, «reduction» in the numbers of animals used, and «refinement» of animal husbandry and experimental procedures so that they are less painful and distressful to the animals.

There is an inherent hypocrisy in holding this procedure hostage at the expense of 1,000 children each year who are doomed to die a painful death.

This was especially true regarding the reported stress of being separated from their infants, feeling helpless and unable to protect their infant from pain and painful procedures, and the general experience in the NICU, she said.

Some have questioned the ethics of transplanting the face of a dead person onto that of a living one, because a failed procedure would be painful and emotionally devastating.

Access to a full range of diagnostic services, with on - site pediatric radiology and the capability to provide conscious sedation for potentially painful procedures

In contrast, tempo - related (e.g., call rate) and source - related (e.g., F0) features often indicate levels of general arousal in mammals over a wide variety of contexts, ranging from social separations, bouts of aggression, to painful procedures [31]--[37].

In the offbeat 2004 film «Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,» a couple undergoes a futuristic medical procedure to have painful memories of one another erased after their breakup.

Subsequently, participants were shown photos of painful medical procedures performed on the hand, and asked to vividly imagine the pain of the depicted patient.

However, some pain relief techniques are definitely being underused, according to Dr. Anand, who says there were a total of 42,413 painful procedures counted during the study, but «skin - to - skin contact was barely used — 4 to 10 times — total,» says Dr. Anand.

An average of 141 painful and stressful procedures In the study, Ricardo Carbajal, MD, PhD, of the Hopital d'enfants Armand Trousseau in Paris, and colleagues had 13 ICUs in the Paris area record the number of painful and stressful procedures experienced by a total of 430 babies in their first two weeks in the hospital.

Newborn babies who spend time in the intensive care unit (ICU) undergo an average of 141 painful or stressful procedures during their stay, including suctioning of the nose and throat, heel sticks, and needle jabs, according to a new study.

Overall, they found the babies had an average of 141 procedures during the stay, of which 70 % were painful and 30 % were known to be stressful, such as having their mouth suctioned or being weighed.

It seems logical that in this time, a man would still be partially recovering from this painful procedure and would not be as likely to engage in sexual activity or may be more careful about using «protection» which also both reduce the risk of AIDS.

For example, it is all too easy to get a steroid injection into a painful shoulder, when a more natural treatment such an osteopathic procedure or massage would have been just as effective without the long - term risk of weakening or damaging the joint further.

Stem cell therapy procedures ensures a less painful experience on the part of the patient.

Synopsis: After a painful breakup, Clementine (Kate Winslet) undergoes a procedure to erase memories of her former boyfriend Joel (Jim Carrey) from her mind... [MORE]

Synopsis: After a painful breakup, Clementine (Kate Winslet) undergoes a procedure to erase memories of her former boyfriend Joel (Jim Carrey) from her mind.

This is usually a painful procedure but the pain can be controlled with analgesics and other medications that are given at the time of treatment and at home for several days afterwards.

She investigates how behavior and physiology of cattle change in response to farming practices that may affect animal welfare, such as painful procedures (e.g., tail docking, disbudding, branding), management decisions (e.g., stocking density), and environmental conditions (e.g., effects of weather and mitigation strategies; comfort of lying and standing surfaces).

Although the idea of having a microchip implanted may sound daunting, it's actually a very simple procedure and isn't painful or distressing for most pets.

However, both of these procedures are extremely painful and may result in infection, and the ASPCA discourages cat owners from pursuing these options.

Anesthesia free dental procedures have no way of cleaning beneath the gumline to prevent periodontal disease, nor are they able to look beneath the gum - line to identify problems before they become painful and expensive to treat.

Since cropping of the ears is a complicated and painful surgical procedure that requires anesthesia, we see no purpose for it in the future of most breeds of dogs.

Analgesia is the relief of pain, and in modern anesthetic protocols we strive for pre-emptive analgesia (blocking the pain pathways before the painful procedure starts), and balanced anesthesia (trying to block the pain pathways from as many directions as possible).

• No tearing of the ovarian ligament is required for laparoscopic spays, which is thought to be the most painful part of the spay procedure

«They have fear of a specific procedure (such as a nail trim) that went poorly before and / or was painful,» Becker says.

Declawing is the amputation of all 10 front digits up the first joint, and it is a painful procedure that can leave cats in physical and mental pain for life.