Sentences with phrase «patients after a procedure»

Performed post-op preparations such as monitoring patient after procedure, obtaining vital signs continually, keeping patient comfortable, and removing IV as patient progresses to discharge

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FDA: Patient deaths being investigated after gastric balloon device procedures.

«Patients were harmed as a result of this fraud scheme when they were subjected to unnecessary medical procedures, and insurance providers were harmed when they paid out tens of millions of dollars after receiving fraudulent bills.»

So what: Interventional cardiologists are increasingly relying on Abiomed's medical devices to boost patient blood circulation before, during, and after catheterization lab procedures, and in 2015, the FDA approval of its devices in additional high - risk heart procedures sent revenue zipping 47 % higher to $ 76 million last quarter.

A partnership between the community mental health center and the local clergy should include consultative services with the clergy to assist them with their own pastoral care and counseling ministry with their parishioners; education and training opportunities in mental health, including evaluative and referral procedures in relation to the local mental health center; and the development and supervision of an after - care ministry with patients originally referred to the center by the local minister, priest, or rabbi.

Patients go home after surgery, and are generally able to start walking without crutches in a couple of days after the procedure.

In general, patients will require physical therapy after the procedure.

Irregular / heavy menstrual bleeding can be treated in several ways: 1) Hormonal medication (a low dose birth control pill or cyclic progestin); 2) A hormone - containing intrauterine device (the most common one used is the Mirena IUD, which manages bleeding very effectively and is placed during an office visit and lasts for 5 years); 3) Endometrial ablation is a surgery commonly performed as an outpatient procedure; the entire lining of the uterus is cauterized (many women never get a menstrual period after an ablation); 4) Finally, I reserve hysterectomy as the treatment of last resort — typically only when the above options have not worked for a patient.

Approximately 95 percent of patients see an improvement after one to three treatments with this procedure.

Hospital procedure rates were unaffected by the reclassification of transferred patients, but the out - of - hospital rates for obstetrical procedures rose after reclassification of transfers (to 4.8 % for induction and to 7.5 % for augmentation).

The study included 40 patients scheduled for genioplasty, as a primary procedure or after corrective jaw surgery.

After a recovery period of approximately two months — during which the woman's chest skin heals, blood supply replenishes, and the expanders are gradually inflated to stretch the skin — the patient returns for an outpatient surgical procedure to replace the tissue expanders with permanent breast implants.

Dr. Gualano said she has seen patients whose lives had become restricted because of their heart - valve problems re-emerging into a wider world after their procedures.

In addition, even after hospitals achieved a volume of 100 or so cases, there continued to be improvement in patient outcomes with higher procedure volume,» said John D. Carroll, M.D., professor of medicine and director of interventional cardiology at the University of Colorado Hospital and lead author of the study.

The more frequently a hospital performs a minimally invasive technique called transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR, to replace a damaged aortic heart valve, the better patients fare, on average, immediately after the procedure, researchers reported at the American College of Cardiology's 65th Annual Scientific Session.

After adjusting for factors such as patient age, sex, hospital size and location, type of procedure and anaesthesia used, patients given tranexamic acid (1000 mg, 2000 mg or 3000 mg) on the day of surgery were compared with patients not given the drug.

In a second surgical procedure less than a week after the brain surgery, Velly and his colleagues took readings from the deep - brain electrodes in 25 patients while also collecting electrode readings from their scalp.

As this study focuses on neurofeedback effects on EEG, sleep and quality of life in insomnia patients, insomnia patients underwent this procedure before and after real as well as placebo neurofeedback training.

In the new study, 71 percent of patients treated with a surgical procedure called catheter ablation were free of atrial fibrillation, the study's primary endpoint, after two years of follow - up, while only 34 percent of patients who took the antiarrhythmic drug Amiodarone were free of symptoms at that point.

Lower median - income families were more likely to choose the open procedure than those of higher median incomes, but after accounting for the income difference, patients and parents exposed to the cost information still were 1.7 times more likely to choose the open procedure.

The number of breast cancer patients undergoing immediate breast reconstruction operations after mastectomy has grown steadily over the past 15 years, most notably among women who were once considered too high - risk for reconstruction procedures according to new research findings published in the October 2014 issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

«More high - risk surgical patients are choosing breast reconstruction procedures after mastectomy.»

Researchers then monitored the patients for close to a year and a half after their procedures and found that none had any further suspicious growths at their biopsy sites.

After the procedure the Rwandan government guidelines suggest that patients abstain from having sex for six weeks, which is also the case after conventional surAfter the procedure the Rwandan government guidelines suggest that patients abstain from having sex for six weeks, which is also the case after conventional surafter conventional surgery.

Listening to music before, during, or after a surgical procedure is beneficial to patients and can significantly reduce pain and anxiety, and decrease the need for pain medication, according to the most comprehensive review of the evidence so far, involving almost 7000 patients, published in The Lancet.

Thirty days after the procedure, patients reported an average score of 5.25, a 36 percent decrease from pretreatment.

Initial results with the KTP laser, describing the outcomes for 22 patients an average of 27 months after their procedures, were announced at the 2008 American Broncho - Esophagological Association (ABEA) annual meeting and published in Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology.

«Depending on how you ask the question, it turns out that the rate of appendicitis and appendectomy in the first week after a colonoscopy was at least fourfold higher compared to these patients» next 51 weeks,» Basson added, noting that the research accounted for differences in the coding of procedures and other discrepancies in the administrative data.

After this procedure, a patient usually has significantly fewer seizures — and some remain seizure - free.

Patients recently diagnosed with type 1diabetes who received transplants of their own immune stem cells were able to go without insulin injections for nearly five years after the procedure, scientists report today.

When patients sign up for clinical trials to test an experimental drug, procedure or device, they give their informed consent after doctors counsel them about the risks and uncertainty associated with a not - yet - approved intervention.

Oliver Wendell Holmes coined the term «anesthesia» in 1846 to describe drug - induced insensibility to sensation (particularly pain), shortly after the first publicized demonstration of inhaled ether rendered a patient unresponsive during a surgical procedure.

In a study that included readmission information from nearly 350 hospitals, readmissions the first 30 days after surgery were associated with new postdischarge complications related to the surgical procedure and not a worsening of any medical conditions the patient already had while hospitalized for surgery, according to a study in the February 3 issue of JAMA.

The software helps identify stroke patients who could benefit from a clot - removal procedure, known as thrombectomy, after the window of time during which it has generally been considered helpful has closed.

The World Healthcare Organization specifies five moments for hand hygiene to reduce the risk of healthcare - associated infection: 1) before touching a patient; 2) before a clean procedure; 3) after exposure to body fluids; 4) after touching a patient; and 5) after touching a patient's surroundings.

Patients should be monitored for elevated risk of self - harm after weight loss procedure, researchers say

The procedure, which involved attaching the nose, chin, cheeks, and lips of a 46 - year - old brain - dead woman, set off a firestorm of criticism that lingered even after the French surgeons declared in July 2006, in the medical journal The Lancet, that the graft was «successful with respect to appearance, sensitivity, and acceptance by the patient.»

Patients with bladder cancer are two times more likely to have complications after a radical cystectomy procedure if they have a biomarker for poor nutritional status before the operation, according to study findings presented today at the 2013 Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons.

While most patients see at least 50 percent of their normal color returning to the treated area, success is not guaranteed and sometimes no pigmentation is seen after the procedure.

He continued: «We also need to educate patients on the various methods of voice rehabilitation after total laryngectomy, in order to de-stigmatize the procedure, and the possible effects on quality of life that such surgery may have.»

Among study patients who experienced complications within the first month after the surgical procedure, the authors looked for the presence of any of three known preoperative nutritional factors that could affect surgical results.

After one year of treatment, 100 percent of patients having sleeve - IT and 46 percent of those having gastric bypass weight - loss procedures reached glycemic control (glycated hemoglobin 6.5 percent or less), compared with 8 percent of those treated clinically for diabetes.

In patients whose troponin T levels were measured both before and after surgery, only 13.8 percent experienced peak levels before their procedure, suggesting that taking a baseline measurement is important to rule out a false indication of injury during or after surgery, Devereaux said.

The case has similarities to that of a nurse infected in a Spanish hospital after taking care of a priest who had contracted the disease in Sierra Leone, and both raise questions about the training procedures that hospital staff receive before they come into contact with Ebola patients.

Hiroshi Ashikaga, assistant professor of medicine and biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, says that the success rate for atrial fibrillation patients twelve months after the procedure is 60 to 80 percent for ideal candidates with intermittent irregular heartbeats.

Ashikaga and his team used a basket - shaped catheter with 64 electrode sensors to measure the heart's electrical communication just before and right after the procedure, and again at six months in 22 patients with an average age of about 64 years treated at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.

The patients were followed for 90 days, after which the researchers found significant reductions in coronary revascularization procedures, fewer hospital readmissions and fewer recurrent cardiac testing episodes or the need for additional testing.

The therapy is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for relapsed or treatment - resistant Hodgkin lymphoma, and it is commonly prescribed to patients whose disease has progressed after autologous stem cell transplant, a procedure that replenishes the bone marrow with the patient's own healthy stem cells after therapy.

Most notably, the amount of opioid medication dispensed to patients after surgery also increased markedly between 2004 and 2012 for all procedures studied.

Clinicians have historically been hesitant to treat HIV patients with stem cell transplant due to concerns that their immune systems would not effectively recover after intensive chemotherapy or that the procedure would cause excessive toxicities or infections post-transplant.