Sentences with phrase «on older patients»

Dr Tan agrees: «As long as the pet's vitals are normal and monitored closely during surgery, sterilisation can still be performed on older patients, especially so if they're suffering from diseases like prostatis or prostate enlargement in male dogs and pyometra in female dogs or cats.»

The results of this study give further evidence to the severity of delirium and its potential effects on older patients.

Syracuse's Crouse Hospital performed medical tests on its oldest patient ever on Sunday.

Not exact matches

«We have an old promotional video showing a doctor lugging a massive cart of video equipment into a patient's room and getting down on the floor to plug it in while a voiceover describes how easy it is to use,» says Klein.

Those prices take a toll on patients like 21 - year - old Hunter Sego, who needs about four vials a month for his Type 1 diabetes.

Doctors do not complain that patients come back with the «same old diseases» week on week, year on year.

And so I sat on the couch next to the old and dog - eared magazines and read one more time the list of questions Dr. Phil McGuire wanted his vasectomy patients to answer before he performed The Procedure:

I watched the game again and found out Arsenal played so brilliantly the level of the performance was of old Arsenal I have no doubt that the Arsenal will win the league providing we remain united and strong and patient the next 38 games will just be the road for success we just need to remain focused on the road we will eventually arrive to our destination enjoy the trip guys

he should remain patient cause soon Debuchy will leave, look at his age he's getting old... I love Jenks a lot and be it in our jersey or not, we all know he's been impressive this season, he should stay on loan fr another season then come back to fight for his place....

They don't oversee much of the club's day - to - day running, but remained patient with Van Gaal through the tumultuous months that ended 2015 on a sour note and their primary concern is that of Champions League football — for the financial benefits — with the duo not overly fussed about the brand of football employed at Old Trafford as long as it equates to results.

The 21 - year - old is expected to make his United debut against Club America in Seattle on the first - leg of the pre-season tour of the United States in July, but Van Gaal has urged supporters to be patient with the Holland international.

Arraigned against a Reading side hoping to develop a more patient style of play but still largely reliant on strength and force, Albion maintained their devotion to the old values.

Because of ALL the doctor's appointments, having a surgery herself, another few days of in - patient testing, and other medical issues in the family, I didn't «officially» start EC until about 4 months old... but by 6 months the nursing staff at our local ER knew I was «that lady who's really tiny baby pees on the potty.»

The NYTimes article Older Americans Are «Hooked» on Vitamins starts with an anecdote: When she was a young physician, Dr. Martha Gulati noticed that many of her mentors were prescribing vitamin E and folic acid to patients.

For example, I have lot of older patients as well and couple of them are actually employed as truck drivers and they get more sun screen on their left side of the body more than the right side of their body because they are in the driver's seat and they are getting all the UV rays through the car glass.

Sophie's 6 month schedule... or Mommys wan na b schedule.I get up at 6:30 am to get myself ready wake up a 5 yr old and 3 yr old for school let them get dressed when one is not throwing a tantrum or teasing the other one by now its 7:30 a send them to eat and then brush their teeth while I dress the baby who has been very paTient... out the house by 8 for kindergartener to get there on time and next stop grandmas we get her to nurse... and get preschooler to school by 8:30 and I'm off to work I pump by 12p and collect 6oz for her afternoon... grandma feeds her again at 11:30 a. Of breast milk and sometimes it's 5oz / 6oz... we sometimes get her a4oz formula bottle with her cereal.I pick up brothers from school at 1and go drop off with grandma and feed Baby again... she gets 5oz bill around 3:30 p and I get home at 6 pm to nurse her and then get food for the kids and don't forget homework... baby gets her veggies... and mom gets Cold

The mother of a 26 - year - old mentally retarded man who drowned in Olympic Pool, Arlington Heights, on Aug. 7 filed suit in Cook County Circuit Court Thursday seeking an unspecified amount of damages from the suburb «s park district and Meadows, 3250 Plum Grove Dr., Rolling Meadows, a long - term care facility where the man had been a patient.

A mom once shared with Attachment Parenting International (API) about how an older couple offered her children a quarter each because «they were working so hard on being patient waiting for their food.»

Paired with a charge nurse who seemed bent on giving me every obstetrical complication patient we had in the months leading up to the birth, including assisting a mother to birth a 22 week old stillborn.

Carol Raphael, President and CEO of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, the state's oldest and largest home care agency, said, «The Visiting Nurse Service of New York applauds Governor Cuomo's call for a thoughtful, collaborative approach to restructuring the State's Medicaid program; we are prepared to work with him and his Administration toward the enactment of policies that focus on coordinating care to the State's most vulnerable patients, who often suffer from multiple complex conditions.»

He also lamented how the disease was terrifying citizens since the first case was diagnosed involving an 11 - year - old male patient on Sept. 22.

The new chief executive of the NHS in England has called on smaller community hospitals to play a bigger role especially in the care of older patients.

«Welsh Liberal Democrats will take action to reduce pressures on our A&E departments, ensuring that all patients have a nearby out - of - hours GP they can visit with more minor injuries and a new model of care for older people to minimise unnecessary hospital admissions.»

Moffitt physicians suggest that melanoma screening strategies may be more feasible by focusing on high - risk populations, such as middle - aged and older patients, and using newer diagnostic tools.

Most of the patients with melanoma were men, and the patients with melanoma were, on average, about 11 years older than those without melanoma.

«Dependence on others and geriatric illnesses, such as cognitive impairment and mobility problems, affect the majority of older emergency patients across a wide range of nations with different health systems and cultural contexts.

The study found the impact of oral nutritional supplements on length of stay and cost of care were even more impactful and statistically significant when looking at all Medicare patients aged 65 and older with any primary diagnosis:

The likely cause, based on previous research, is difficulty understanding medication dosing and discharge instructions, as well as cognitive impairment among older patients.

In the U.S., one in five Medicare patients is readmitted to a hospital each year at an estimated cost of $ 17.5 billion annually.i To reduce this impact, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has introduced hospital penalties based on readmissions conditions that commonly affect patients aged 65 and older — including acute myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure and pneumonia.i

Patients showing gadolinium in the vitreous chamber at the later timepoint tended to be of older age, have a history of hypertension, and have more bright spots on their brain scans, called white matter hyperintensities, that are associated with brain aging and decreased cognitive function.

About 9 million ambulatory surgeries annually are performed on patients 65 and older.

The 45 - year - old male patient had become so chemically intolerant that he had been on sick leave for two years, had moved out of his home and could only see his children outside, not indoors.

Older patients have diverse views on the relative importance of stroke and death as end points, which differ from clinicians» beliefs, he argues.

«As a field, we are starting to grapple with premature aging in the HIV - infected population, even in patients who are on therapy — their immune systems largely look like someone whose immune system is many years older,» Hunt notes.

For example, we have found that in superficial BCC on the lower extremities in older patients, PDT should be prescribed rather than imiquimod.

Key findings in this study show that 5 - year survival for older lung cancer surgery patients is favorable; surgeons will be able to better individualize care for older lung cancer patients based on newly and uniquely linked data, and the prevalence of lung cancer is expected to increase as the population continues to age.

This large study sponsored by the National Institute on Aging has been following 566 noncardiac surgical patients over the age of 70 for the past five years with the goal of finding new approaches to prevent delirium and its long - term consequences in older adults.

Patients who lose consciousness for more than a year are considered extremely unlikely to regain it, but a 35 - year - old Frenchman who had been in a vegetative state for 15 years has shown hints of awareness after having key brain regions electrically stimulated, scientists reported on Monday.

One in four patients develop heart failure within four years of a first heart attack, according to a study in nearly 25,000 patients presented today at Heart Failure 2016 and the 3rd World Congress on Acute Heart Failure by Dr Johannes Gho, a cardiology resident at the University Medical Center Utrecht, in Utrecht, the Netherlands.1 Risk factors included older age, greater socioeconomic deprivation, and comorbidities such as diabetes.

The study uses Medicare claims data for hospital admissions from 2002 to 2011, focusing on patients who were at least 66 years old, and tracking their one - year mortality statistics.

Based on the results of this study, surgery should be considered a viable treatment option for these lumbar conditions in patients older than age 80.

Respondents were also asked to report on whether they generally recommended routine screening mammograms to average - risk patients with no family history or prior breast issues in groups aged 40 - 44, 45 - 49 and older than 75 years.

Getting Treatment Right Despite the prevalence of cancer in the elderly, treatment studies rarely include people older than 70, leaving doctors without clear guidance on what works best for such patients.

The study is part of a broader effort to collect data on the youngest epilepsy patients — those younger than 3 years old, the age at which epilepsy most often becomes evident.

Fourteen percent would be excluded on the basis of age alone — that's because most ARTs exclude patients older than 65.

CQGS is working with more than 50 stakeholder organizations to develop standards based on best scientific evidence that will focus on delivering optimal surgical care for a rapidly growing older patient population.

«The impact of overweight and obesity on asthma has not been studied in the youngest asthma patients, and this finding is the opposite of what has been seen in older kids and adults who are overweight,» Lang said.

Screening for colorectal cancer based on age alone may contribute to both underuse and overuse of the tests among older patients, according to a study by investigators at the University of Michigan and the Veterans Affairs Center for Clinical Management Research.

The patient, a 42 - year - old man, had been suffering from a malignant tumor on his tongue that made it impossible for him to speak, swallow, or even open his mouth.

«For a comfortable fit, we put an elastic band in the back and told the patients to put it on like a baseball cap,» said team member Ian Graham of Old Saybrook, Conn. «The interaction with the patients was really helpful.