Sentences with phrase «operate on patients»

Some doctors are surgeons who operate on patients to treat a variety of injuries and threatening illnesses.

Surgeons in the US have pioneered the use of a mechanical arm laden with sensors to track the positions of their surgical instruments while they operate on patients» brains.

On rare occasions, someone who has perfected the techniques of using a new surgical device might be the best and safest candidate for operating on patients, but, he explains, that's for institutional review boards to decide.

By the Duke researchers» calculations, surgeons operating on patients with a stage T1b tumor (more than 1 cm, but less than 2 cm at its widest point) can be 90 percent sure they have contained the cancer if they remove 6 lymph nodes around the tumor that test negative for the disease.

The series alleged, in part, that he operated on patients in Russia whose conditions were not life - threatening enough to warrant such a risky procedure.

However, after Swedish Television aired a series of documentaries raising new allegations about his work, such as operating on patients whose lives were not in danger, KI ordered a new investigation.

Our study is the first to use a major national cohort to compare SABR with minimally invasive (thoracoscopic) sublobar resection, a popular choice for surgeons operating on patients with compromised function who are not considered able to tolerate a lobectomy.

Doctors discovered (quite accidentally) well over a century ago, that operating on patients, or delivering babies, with unwashed hands, was a terrible idea.

Similarly, surgeons begin mastering their craft by first obtaining education / training and then they might practice on cadavers in the lab or shadow a mentor in a real lab setting, and then finally after years of practice they are ready to operate on a patient by themselves.

When the surgeon has finished operating on a patient, the laser can be easily carried in for a quick treatment of the incision.

Not exact matches

We continue to focus on initiatives to promote broad and seamless access for patients,» stated Jim Robinson, President and Chief Operating Officer of Alkermes.

The Healthcare Reform Law, including The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and The Healthcare and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, could have a material adverse effect on Humana's results of operations, including restricting revenue, enrollment and premium growth in certain products and market segments, restricting the company's ability to expand into new markets, increasing the company's medical and operating costs by, among other things, requiring a minimum benefit ratio on insured products, lowering the company's Medicare payment rates and increasing the company's expenses associated with a non-deductible health insurance industry fee and other assessments; the company's financial position, including the company's ability to maintain the value of its goodwill; and the company's cash flows.

Because Lee's team was crunching so much of the hospital's data, they could identify a common factor in the lagging group of patients: They were all operated on later in the afternoon.

Vida, which is available on Apple's iOS 8 operating system, is integrated with the iPhone maker's HealthKit service, so it can pull in patient - generated data from a variety of wearables and mobile medical devices, such as glucometers.

Coffs Harbour surgeons use operating theatres at Ramsay's facilities to perform surgical procedures on private patients.

In the DM position i am very impressed with the way Le coq operates, he is absolutely crazy but we need someone to come up in case he is injured or needs a rest, here Flamin should be shown his way, i am not sure about Diaby he is top class but i have lost my patient on him and he is not a DM anyway, his best position is box2box which looks to be congested with Ramsey, Carzola, Wilshere and Arteta all fit.

, Arsenal is not a charity, Arsenal is a football club trying to to win EPL, not a charity trying to help a player who is overated and useless, he got pay to play a football, not to operate patients and he got 75m a week to be able to pass the ball correctly, never mind score or assist, I get 480 # / week if my confidence is low my boss will give me a kick at back side to sort my self out or the door, we do not have to risk our chance of winning the game for a sake of Ox, bench him, the best player plays, we don't gonna miss is scoring ability or his assist, we will be less frustrated if he is on the bench typical English player!

Catholic Health will provide adult primary care and internal medicine services, OB / GYN and prenatal care services and physical therapy at the Mall along with operating an NCQA Level 3 Patient - Centered Medical Home and on - site laboratory service center.

The ex-senator said the health clinic, where he continues to draw a $ 225,000 salary, operates on a $ 14 million annual budget and shouldn't be caught in his political fight because 200 workers could lose their jobs and 20,000 patients could lose their clinic.

With tumour diagnosis, for example, surgeons usually remove a sample for analysis while the patient waits on the operating table.

By the time he arrived in the operating room, a surgical team already had shaved a patient bald, secured a metal frame to her head and drilled two quarter - size holes on either side of her skull.

When the surgeon enters the operating room, he sees a giant color display on the computer monitor, like a Rand McNally guide to that patient's brain.

But in 41 of the cases reported to the NRLS the patient died, and in most (80 %), this was on the operating table.

When The Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network reported its genomic profiling of clear - cell kidney tumours, about one - quarter of participants (126 patients) had been operated on at Memorial Sloan Kettering3.

In her own research on hip fracture, which was cited in Guyatt's study, she found that the time a patient had to wait before surgery — which was significantly longer in Canada than the U.S. because of a shortage of operating rooms — made only a 1 percent difference in terms of mortality.

After six hours on the operating table, Penner became the first patient ever to undergo a closed - chest robotic coronary bypass on a beating heart.

Coming soon to an operating room near you: a remote - controlled robot operates on a flesh - and - blood patient while — miles away — the human surgeon deftly cuts with virtual scalpels.

«The results of surgery performed by members of the Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSSANZ) in this trial were excellent but we need to wait longer and get further results to understand the best way to use laparoscopic procedures, and to determine whether this is something suitable for all patients or considered with more caution in patients who are difficult to operate on.»

In addition, two other surgeons operated on a different group of five patients without using models.

In this study, Upasani operated on a total of 10 patients.

Given the general mindset in favour of surgical intervention, says Treasure, it will be hard for patients, doctors and healthcare staff on the trial to accept the uncertainty around operating in these circumstances.

Patients who underwent open - heart surgery in the afternoon experienced better health outcomes compared to those who got operated on in the morning, study authors found after six years of observing nearly 600 patients who underwent heart valve replPatients who underwent open - heart surgery in the afternoon experienced better health outcomes compared to those who got operated on in the morning, study authors found after six years of observing nearly 600 patients who underwent heart valve replpatients who underwent heart valve replacement.

In this way they can determine where to operate while avoiding invasive procedures, and especially prepare for the operation by testing different surgical possibilities, seeing which would be most effective and what the consequences would be, something that is obviously impossible to do on the patient.

«Even before we have drugs available to regulate the circadian clock, one might propose that high - risk patients should preferentially be operated on in the afternoon,» Dr. Thomas Bochaton and Dr. Michel Ovize, both French cardiologists, wrote in an editorial released alongside the study Thursday.

The idea is to solicit ideas that can be used to improve the equipment available to African health workers treating Ebola patients on the front lines, particularly as they operate in hot, humid environments that make impermeable suits very difficult to wear.

By explaining how the drug operates, their research might allow others to design new antibiotics that could in fact be used to treat tuberculosis patients — and might even work on other bugs.

When they looked into the case records of the patients operated on at Karolinska, they concluded that the papers failed to mention the serious complications the patients had suffered, and ultimately asked Karolinska to investigate.

They then operated on the scarred rats, removing part of the scar tissue and supplanting it with a graft, as is done in patients with severe Peyronie's disease.

«Our algorithm allows us to be much smarter about whom we operate on up front, providing a more individualized approach to surgery that's led to better results for our patients,» said Anil Sood, M.D., professor of Gynecologic Oncology and Reproductive Medicine and senior author of the paper.

A patient lies unconscious on the operating table.

He had brought together many of his former patients, including some he had operated on in the early 1960s.

The cetuximab and chemotherapy combination is also used successfully in patients whose disease can not be operated on at all.

Orthopaedic surgery and radiology collaborators have also implemented intraoperative use of low - dose protocols on fluoroscopy machines, which reduces radiation exposure to both patients as well as physicians and staff in the operating room.

Working 80 to 100 hours a week or even more was long considered normal for residents, on the grounds that such training taught them to operate under stress and provide complete patient care.

Researchers from the University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital have now determined how the patients» functional status before the injury and the use of oral anticoagulant medications influence the prognosis of patients 75 years or older operated on for an acute subdural hematoma.

In some operating rooms, the patient isn't the only person whose life is on the line.

Their analysis is designed to help surgeons minimize the tissue removed while operating on cancer patients by providing highly accurate, real - time information about the health of the excised tissue.

It's a good rate, and as Mulembakani and his INRB entourage are waved through to meet with the nuns who operate the facility, dozens of ailing patients lie on mats outside the gates, begging for the copay, on the threshold between the squalor outside and the orderly hospital wards.

In most operating rooms, surgeons must make their best estimation in the OR based on MRI scans performed well before the patient enters the operating room.

Some of these include warming the operating room before the patient arrives and maintaining it during the procedure, using warming blankets during travel and warming the mattress that patients lie on during the operation.