Sentences with phrase «patients after they leave the hospital»

The researchers say the high prevalence of PTSD after an ICU stay underscores the importance of following up with patients after they leave the hospital.

A DME salesperson offers medical assistance products, such as wheelchairs and canes, that make life easier for patients after they leave the hospital or medical facility.

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A small number of hospitals have introduced upfront charges for overseas patients already but the vast majority continue to chase debts after patients have left the hospital.

The typical scenario would be that something had gone dreadfully wrong and the community midwives, after exploring their options, would finally, and receiving nothing but hostile response from the various hospitals, would have the patient transported to the hospital by ambulance and then they would all bolt and just leave the patient in the emergency room and to the care of whoever was on emergency call.

Garner said a patient who was pregnant with triplets was asked to leave the hospital even after the judge's order was announced.

Studies have found that people have an aversion to washed clothing worn by murderers, and that they don't want an AIDS patient to occupy a hospital bed after they've left it — implying a belief in causality, which goes, weirdly, backward through time.

ORLANDO, Fla. — The first large study to examine cumulative radiation exposure from medical imaging after a heart attack has found that the average patient receives the equivalent of about 725 chest X-rays before leaving the hospital.

«Once widely assumed to be a short - term, transient condition, there is now evidence that delirium and its effects can last long after patients have left the hospital.

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Although hospitals clean rooms daily and after a patient leaves, some spores may still survive, Kenneley said, which is why the key to prevention is hand - washing.

After leaving the frontline hospital, they're loaded onto a massive C - 17 cargo plane that has been retrofitted to hold an entire intensive care unit — up to 8 critical care patients and 27 noncritical litter patients.

«We need to focus not only on saving the patient's life, but on ensuring the patient will have the best possible quality of life after leaving the hospital.»

However, our results showed that hospital - acquired anemia was associated with worse clinical outcomes after leaving the hospital so it needs to be taken more seriously,» said senior author Dr. Ethan Halm, Director of UT Southwestern's Center for Patient - Centered Outcomes Research and Chief of the William T. and Gay F. Solomon Division of General Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern.

According to a 2008 study, people who have POCD 3 months after they leave the hospital are nearly twice as likely to die within a year as are surgical patients who report no mental setbacks.

After leaving the hospital, patients are expected to return to the Penn Transplant Institute for ongoing therapy and medical care and are monitored for any signs of infection, rejection or medication side effects.

After the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona, performed its first fecal microbiota transplant in 2011, a patient who had been bed - ridden for weeks left the hospital 24 hours later.

Three months after leaving the hospital, 57 percent of the patients were able to walk without assistance.

Some breast cancer patients leave the hospital after surgery with surgical drains, which help prevent fluid from building up around incisions.

The warning comes after a computer virus entered the NHS's outdated XP Windows system, which left many hospitals unable to access the medical records of patients.

From left, Registered Vet Tech Tammy Hawkes removes a foam pad as radiation therapist Colleen Walsh comes to help Registered Vet Tech anesthetist Beth Piojda as she carefully lifts canine patient Buddy, an 11 year old Wheaten Terrier after his radiation treatment Thursday, March 3, 2016 at the NC State Veterinary Hospital.

The plaintiff was the surviving loved one of a patient who had been left quadriplegic after being treated by the defendant hospital.