Sentences with phrase «performed by the patient»

This article marked the first time that premier physicians used a prominent journal to discuss not only «pulling the plug,» but whether physician - assisted suicide (performed by the patient) and euthanasia (performed by the physician) should be a part of the continuum of medical care.

HTTM2 is about as funny as making love to a Bass - O - Matic, and about as clever as «The Californians» performed by patients in a pediatric burn ward.

The results of the BRB as well as of other tests performed by patients and healthy controls (HC) are reported in table 2.

Not exact matches

The surgery, which can be performed on the upper lids, lower lids, or both, is sought by patients who want to improve their appearance or who are experiencing functional problems with their eyelids, according to the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.

Whitecoat, the controversial health insurer - backed website that has been labelled the «Trip Advisor» of the sector, will be expanded to include patient reviews about the success of procedures performed by doctors, surgeons and other health professionals.

It will be measured by outcomes and patient satisfaction rather than the quantity of services they perform.

Earlier this year the company reported that patients who took PRX - 002 saw their alpha synuclein levels drop by as much as 96 %, which is a massive improvement that performed significantly better than a placebo.

When they arrived in the capital, a medic collected the patients from the aircraft and rushed them for successful separation surgery at a clinic, which was performed by a team of volunteer surgeons.

By 1973, with the sexual revolution well underway, licensed doctors were increasingly performing elective abortions for their patients, but they were worried about criminal and civil liability.

Scoville was director of the Jaynes Analytical Laboratory, just purchased by the Riker drug stores, where for $ 2.50 per patient, his staff performed urine analyses.

I find it's often helpful to get some sense of a concussed patient's cognitive deficits by performing a neurocognitive assessment, either using a standard written concussion assessment tool, or one of the many computer - based assessment tools.

By ignoring the facets, Bonati said that Woods» doctors ensured their patient will «be in pain and he is going to be very dissatisfied with the surgery and he is not going to be able to perform and his quality of playing [will] suffer.»

And in some religious services the procedure is not even performed by a doctor, in a hospital setting, but in a living room with a drop of sweet wine for the patient (and plenty, it is assumed, for the mother who must comfort him).

After the reclassification of transferred patients, the out - of - hospital rate of cesarean delivery (performed by a physician who was not the planned birth attendant) was 5.3 %.

Whether continued tocolysis after 48hours of rescue tocolysis improves neonatal outcome is unproven.To evaluate the effectiveness of maintenance tocolytic therapy with oral nifedipine on the reduction of adverse neonatal outcomes and the prolongation of pregnancy by performing an individual patient data meta - analysis (IPDMA).

The more births a doctor can do, the more money the hospital makes by freeing up a bed for more patients / births, which is intensive for a doctor to perform a c - section.

Besides the alleged scheme involving cancer patients and a Columbia researcher, prosecutors said Silver improperly profited from tax work performed by a second law firm in Manhattan.

When residents move into the Eltona, they will participate in a research study performed by the Mount Sinai School of Medicine tracking the health of asthma patients.

«This legislation will ensure that patients are no longer cared for by overworked nurses, and it will allow these dedicated professionals to perform to the best of their ability.

They asked patients to wilfully change their brain activity by imagining themselves performing specific tasks for a certain amount of time.

The registry, which is jointly maintained by the American College of Cardiology and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, now contains data on over 50,000 patients whose TAVR procedures were performed at nearly 400 hospitals in the United States.

Each year, approximately half of the 25,000 patients assessed at UPMC's Multidisciplinary Thyroid Center are found to have thyroid conditions, and more than 900 thyroid operations are performed by the center's surgeons.

In order to reduce this risk, Dr. Alster says, it's important for patients to ensure that their laser procedures are performed by a properly trained and suitably experienced medical professional.

Increased brain activation required by MS patients on warmer days to perform a simple task may signify neural inefficiency.»

By assessing the survival of the cells that engulf the particles and measuring the levels of red or green light that they emitted, the researchers determined which formulation of particles performed best, then tested that formulation in mice with human brain cancer derived from their patients.

He took blood samples prepared by Cetero chemists and used mass specs to perform «runs» — tests to see how much of a drug is in patients» blood — that must always be performed with control samples.

«The phi test helps physicians distinguish prostate cancer from benign conditions by utilizing three different PSA markers (PSA, freePSA and p2PSA) as part of a sophisticated algorithm to more reliably determine the probability of cancer in patients with elevated PSA levels,» said Kevin Slawin, MD, director, Vanguard Urologic Institute at Memorial Hermann Medical Group, clinical professor of Urology at Baylor College of Medicine and director of Urology, Memorial Hermann Hospital ‐ Texas Medical Center, who performed some of the key research that led to the development of the phi test and who also began using the test in February.

Performing a multivariate analysis adjusting for patient demographics and comorbidities, the UCSF researchers determined AFL catheter ablation reduced the risk for overall hospital - based health care by 6 percent, inpatient hospitalization by 12 percent and emergency department visits by 40 percent.

The imaging software — developed and currently in use only at Cincinnati Children's — mathematically determines the lowest possible radiation dose for the patient before a scan is performed, according to the study led by David Larson, MD, radiology quality and safety director at the medical center and principal architect of the technology.

By taking human intervention out of the equation, autonomous robots could potentially reduce complications and improve care for patients undergoing soft tissue surgeries, about 45 million of which are performed in the U.S. each year.

During minimally invasive surgeries performed in 42 patients, a fully charged smartphone (iPhone models 4, 5, and 6) was attached to the front of the neuroendoscope by means of an adapter.

In the present study, performed by Prof. Latzer who is also the director of the Eating Disorders Clinic at Rambam Medical Center, the research student Adit Zohr - Beja, and Dr. Eitan Gur from the Eating Disorders Department, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, the researchers sought to examine claims concerning the ineffectiveness of involuntary hospitalization and examined whether there is a difference in outcome between patients in extreme condition who were forcibly hospitalized and those who were hospitalized willingly.

Indeed, exposure of the protein produced by the nanoparticle - based gene therapy to the gut mucosa prevents inhibitor development and restores clotting - factor activity in mouse models of both haemophilia A and B. «This approach really could hold big benefit for patients,» says Jörg Schüttrumpf, a transfusion - medicine specialist who led one of the studies performed at the German Red Cross Blood Donor Service in Frankfurt.

These cognitive impairments may go unnoticed by physicians assessing patients with Parkinson's who are lying down or seated, and could lead to difficulty in daily activities performed while standing and walking, such as tracking conversations, counting change and interpreting traffic signals.

In the Scientific Reports study, researchers first performed the largest meta - analysis of the vestibular schwannoma transcriptome by studying 80 tumors from patients with sporadic and NF2 - associated vestibular schwannomas.

«While neuroimaging studies can tell us a great deal about the brain's response to complex events, it's only by studying patients with brain injury that we can see if a brain region is actually needed to perform a given task,» said Dr Clark.

«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.»

By performing a genome - wide screen in breast cancer cells, Dr. Oesterreich and her colleagues identified a gene called HOXC10 as one that the cancer seems to modify to allow continued tumor growth in patients whose cancer becomes resistant to traditional therapies.

The old, slow test detected the auto - antibodies using radioactive materials, took several days, could only be performed by highly - trained lab staff and cost several hundred dollars per patient.

«The data from these two Phase III trials conducted in Europe and in the U.S. support the effectiveness of this novel photo - protective drug, offering the patients in Europe — where the drug has been approved by the European Medicines Agency — the opportunity to perform their daily functions without the pain induced by sun exposure,» said Robert J. Desnick, PhD, MD, Principal Investigator of the U.S. Trials and Dean for Genetic and Genomic Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine.

In a study led by psychiatrist Ian Reid of Aberdeen, Schwarzbauer and colleagues performed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans of nine depressed patients before and after ECT.

With the collaboration of ASV Transporte Sanitario Ayuda, a group based in the province of Alicante, and the firm Medical Simulator - Innovación en Educación, they are assessing the possibility to safely assist patients in medical vehicles at all times by performing certain procedures, such as intubation.

In clinical trials performed at medical centers across the U.S., including at Saint Barnabas Medical Center in New Jersey by Dr. Doyle and Orrin Devinsky, MD, director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at NYU Langone, 55 percent of patients experienced a 50 percent or greater reduction in seizures two years post implantation.

Rehabilitation therapies performed by intelligent robotic systems have been shown to reduce patients» recovery time.

Saint: Windpipe Builders In June a dream team of doctors and researchers saved the life of a tracheal cancer patient by performing the first artificial windpipe transplant.

The aim of the current study was to examine whether complete ablation by performing RDN in accessory renal arteries, in addition to the main renal arteries, would influence blood pressure even more in patients with rHTN.

Researchers also found that PAE, developed and performed by interventional radiologists, is especially effective in men with BPH who also have acute urinary retention or the inability to voluntarily urinate and in patients with very large prostates who are normally treated with open surgery.

«By applying the genetic ancestry data of all major racial backgrounds, we can perform more precise and cost - effective clinical diagnoses that benefit patients and physicians alike.»

The next step is to miniaturize everything, to automate the functions currently performed by a technician, and to transmit the signals wirelessly so that nothing pokes out through the patient's head.

A new study shows that survival and neurological outcomes for patients in cardiac arrest can be improved by adding extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) when performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).