Sentences with phrase «patients after the operation»

Responsible for assisting the patients after operations and providing necessary things to them

They can also be saddled with the responsibility of suturing the patient after the operation.

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Now, she ensures those patients are up and walking after their operations no matter what, improving their recovery time.

Daniel's firm, based in Herndon, Virginia, provides services to hospitals, such as valet parking and «sitters,» who stay with elderly or mentally ill patients after they've been sent home from operations.

Analyzing complications in the 30 days after the operations, the researchers found no differences between those patients who were prayed for and those who were not.

Most obstetricians request to see their C - section patients about two weeks after the operation.

When she saw how bypass surgery patients at St. Luke's lost weight — and their diabetes — after a single operation, she became intrigued.

Total knee and hip replacements are highly effective operations for patients with severe pain in these joints, and opioids are the main drugs used for acute pain management after such surgeries.

Overall, 6.5 percent of thyroid cancer patients had general post-operative complications in the month after surgery, and 12 percent had complications specific to thyroid surgery within the year after their operation.

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.

After his initial patient seemed cured of C. difficile, he expanded the operation.

Past research has suggested that chronic opioid use may lead to tolerance and can increase sensitivity to pain — leaving patients more vulnerable after an operation.

The patients who had been prescribed opioids before surgery spent an average of an extra half a day in the hospital after their operations, the researchers found — even after they adjusted for a wide range of co-existing factors such as medical conditions and demographic characteristics.

In one experiment, bedridden heart - surgery patients were given color pictures to look at after their operations.

The series, called The Experiments, suggested that Macchiarini had exaggerated the success of his operations in published papers and that one patient at Kuban State Medical University in Krasnodar, Russia, died after she received his artificial trachea, even though she could have lived a long life.

And in five bypass patients, levels of the chemical rose during the operation, peaked 15 minutes after clamp removal, and returned to normal within 24 hours.

Many years ago clinicians began noticing that patients with sleep apnea were at an increased risk of developing complications after operations.

«The easy extraction of ANGPTL4 also could mean that in future, a surgeon can use the patient's fat and turn it into a healing agent on the spot, to promote faster recovery of the patient's wounds after an operation,» she explained.

«Consuming alcohol after surgery the way one did before the operation could put patients at risk for potentially serious consequences, even when they drink only moderate amounts of alcohol.»

As is common in major operations, heparin, a blood - thinning agent, was injected to prevent clotting; the drug must be removed after surgery to allow the patient's wounds to heal.

In a landmark 2007 study, they performed tonsillectomies on 26 kids with OSA who showed signs of vascular dysfunction; after the operations cured their sleep apnea, arterial tissue returned to normal in 20 of the patients.

«The patients have been assessed in three distinct phases: prior to the operation, 5 days after the operation, and 3 months thereafter.

In line with an alteration of the reward system, the weight variation has proved more consistent in those patients who, after the operation, have displayed an increased desire for food.

* For these patients, radical cystectomy is the standard treatment, but the complication rate after the operation remains high, particularly for infections and poor wound healing, explained study authors.

Alvord noticed that when patients felt cared for and respected by their caretakers, they seemed to do better during and after operations.

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.

David C. Johnson, MD, MPH, lead author of the study and a third - year urology resident at UNC School of Medicine, and colleagues evaluated the impact that patients» nutritional status before radical cystectomy had on the rate of complications within 30 days after the operation.

The team also has records of the patients» cognitive skills, such as language and memory skills, before and at regular intervals after the operations.

«That T - cells, activated by immunotherapy prior to surgery, can intercept rogue tumor cells throughout the body after the patient's operation and prevent the cancer from recurring may be a game - changer.

According to an independent expert, Professor Bengt Gerdin (Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden), who evaluated the paper in an investigation into possible scientific misconduct by its senior author Professor Paolo Macchiarini, this is a severe misrepresentation of the hospital records describing the patient's condition after the operation.

Six percent of these «opioid naïve» patients were still taking opioid pain medications three to six months after their operations — long after their surgery pain should have eased, according to U-M research published earlier this year.

If surgery sets the brain afire, leading to POCD or delirium, can we douse it by giving patients anti-inflammatories during or after an operation?

In 1955, an influential paper in The Lancet described six elderly patients whose faculties appeared to dwindle after operations.

But when I went to the Neuro I met these young epilepsy patients who complained of memory problems after undergoing operations that removed part of the brain's left temporal lobe.

And it was after that that Dr. William Scoville, the neurosurgeon from Hartford, CT, called Dr. Penfield and said, «I am so interested in this abstract because I think the memory loss you are describing is what I have seen in my patient» — and it was H.M. — «in whom I did my operation.»

If after the operation, the patient has no testicles, he will be infertile.

Surgeons performing 11 common operations can turn to a free new prescribing tool based on data about how many opioid painkillers patients across Michigan actually took after their operations.

By using ASRGL1, the chance of identifying such hidden high - risk patients and offer them more aggressive treatment after their operation, said Per - Henrik Edqvist, Manager at the facility Tissue profiling.

The study, from Leicester Royal Infirmary in the United Kingdom, found that three quarters of weight loss surgery patients developed a dislike for certain foods after their operations, most often meat and dairy products.

I would see patients coming back for second coronary bypass operations a few years after their first, having had normal cholesterol levels the entire time.

Anthony Minghella, the film director whose work included The English Patient and Truly, Madly, Deeply, died yesterday, aged 54, after suffering a haemorrhage at Charing Cross Hospital in London following an operation last week for a growth in his neck.

As cited by Porter, the same thing happens when U.S. hospitals «do whatever it takes to keep patients alive at least 31 days after an operation, to beat Medicare's 30 - day survival yardstick.»

Keeping a patient quiet after an operation is important to help the body recover and prevent complications (delayed healing, for instance if he were to jump up and pull out a suture).

Also if the patient's heart rate drops to 0 you also lose, makes sense really You are rated on your perforance after each successful operation, with a score and rank.

Patients are understood to have taken advice about making medical negligence claims against an NHS hospital, after minor operations by a private provider prompted complaints.

A general surgeon is also responsible for studying the medical history of the patient and for verifying if the patient has certain allergies and to foresee the results after the operation.

Dental assistant's common job responsibilities are attending the patients at the help desk, searching for their medical history documentation, giving primary level information about a case to the dentist, assisting dentist in actual diagnosis / operation process, interacting with the patient, looking after billing section and other documentation.

Responsible for monitoring patient's vital signs, emotional and physical well - being after the operation

• Monitored, recorded and communicated patient's condition before, during and after the operation.

An operating room nurse ensures the delivery of proper nursing care to surgical patients before, during and after operations.