Sentences with phrase «patients at higher risk of complications»

Patients at high risk of complications could also be more closely monitored after they are discharged from the hospital and sent home in order to uncover and treat surgical complications earlier in their course, before patients require re-hospitalization.

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Patients undergoing surgery for a hip fracture are at substantially higher risk of mortality and medical complications compared with patients undergoing an elective total hip replacemenPatients undergoing surgery for a hip fracture are at substantially higher risk of mortality and medical complications compared with patients undergoing an elective total hip replacemenpatients undergoing an elective total hip replacement (THR).

Patients with both conditions are at especially high risk of serious complications and death.

The researchers suggest better educating patients and providers so that those at risk of complications seek out high - volume surgeons that tend to have better outcomes.

Diabetic patients suffer from high blood glucose or sugar, putting them at risk of heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, nerve damage, blindness, and other complications.

«Because of its promising role in determining who has poorly controlled glucose levels, we have already begun to use the fructosamine test, at our institution to determine who is at high risk of complications and allocate resources to optimizing the glycemic control in these patients» said Dr. Parvizi.

Overall, only 19 percent of the patients at high risk for influenza - associated complications who saw a primary - care provider within two days of the onset of their symptoms received antiviral treatment.

In a different study Waghmare presented at the recent annual meeting of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation in Orlando, Florida, the researchers teased out a few risk factors that can drive the development of lower respiratory tract infections — namely, high levels of steroid use (commonly given to transplant patients for other complications such as graft - vs.

Researchers also contend that transplant outcomes can be further improved by identifying patients who are at high risk for certain complications, such as cognitive decline, or by employing post-transplant treatments to reduce their risk of relapse.

Before recalibration, the researchers found that the Surgical Risk Calculator had a slight tendency to overestimate surgical risk for the lowest and highest risk patients and to underestimate risk for patients at moderate risk of postoperative complicatiRisk Calculator had a slight tendency to overestimate surgical risk for the lowest and highest risk patients and to underestimate risk for patients at moderate risk of postoperative complicatirisk for the lowest and highest risk patients and to underestimate risk for patients at moderate risk of postoperative complicatirisk patients and to underestimate risk for patients at moderate risk of postoperative complicatirisk for patients at moderate risk of postoperative complicatirisk of postoperative complications.

«This research is important in that it may advance the application of widely available cardiac biomarkers to identify CKD patients at the highest risk of developing heart failure, the most common cardiovascular complication in this patient population,» said Dr. Bansal.

The study shows that better coordination of care between surgeons and primary care physicians is important to help reduce hospital readmissions within 30 days for those high - risk surgery patients who have post-operative complications or live with a chronic disease, according to Benjamin S. Brooke, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of surgery at the University of Utah School of Medicine and first author on the study.

Predicting which patients are most likely to experience complications using a simple online tool may allow healthcare professionals to flag patients at high risk of readmission in real time and alter care to reduce expensive trips back to the hospital.

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

«We are excited to support the preclinical and clinical development work with the PEC - Direct product candidate, given its potential to help the type 1 diabetes patients with the most urgent medical need, those at high risk of life - threatening acute complications.

Used with concomitant maintenance immune suppression therapy, the PEC - Direct product has the potential of delivering a sustained, functional cure for patients with type 1 diabetes who are at high risk for acute life - threatening complications.

She has been involved in the identification of early biomarkers of placental damage in cohorts of patients at high risk of pregnancy complications, with specific focus on the role of autoimmunity and of vascular inflammation.

In patients at high risk of renal complications who are undergoing angiography, use of I.V. sodium bicarbonate offered no benefits for prevention of contrast - associated acute kidney injury...

As such, PEC - Direct will require immunosuppression therapy, and is being developed for type 1 diabetes patients that are at a higher risk of death due to complications, such as severe hypoglycemic episodes, extreme glycemic lability and hypoglycemia unawareness.

The FDA reiterated the potential complications researchers and consumer groups had been warning of for years and noted which patients were at highest risk of developing these complications.

The findings they note indicate that both types of patients who have the breathing - related sleep disorder should be considered at high risk for serious heart - related complications.