Sentences with phrase «performing other surgeries»

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There's still much more work to be done before robots can be routinely used in hospitals to help doctors perform surgery and other functions.

True, the surgery is less drastic than that symmetrical hemisection performed by Apollo on the original circle - men in Aristophanes» tale, each half then longing to find and unite sexually with its missing other half.

Or, other examples of this are giving her medications against her consent, or performing surgery or an extraction against her consent..

Besides the surgery performed on the late Indian princess, history points out that c - sections were also performed in many other regions (though probably sometime after 300BC).

In 2001 he moved to Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and began teaching his methods to other surgeons, using the longer - handled tools that had been developed for performing surgeries on obese patients.

In the future, ultrasound scans of the carotid artery will lead to the ability to perform surgery at an earlier stage in some cases, and the ability to avoid surgery completely in others.

Other studies have shown that low - volume surgeons perform a disproportionate number of thyroid surgeries in the United States.

They might perform surgery from inside a patient, build any desired product from simple raw materials, or explore other worlds.

Although a few surgeons have performed closed - chest bypasses using a heart - lung machine, and others have performed open - heart surgery without a heart - lung machine, Boyd was the first to put the whole package together, using the Zeus system.

«Bariatric surgeries are the most effective long - term treatment of obesity that we know of today, and findings from this study or others showing associations between RYGB and increased risk to develop alcoholism are not to say we should not perform these procedures,» Pepino says.

Cardiopulmonary bypass, or the «heart - lung machine,» is a technology that is instrumental in performing surgery for coronary heart disease and other heart conditions.

«Delivering advanced medical care to patients like Eric is something you can only do at an institution like UT Southwestern, where we have the experience and the specialized care to perform higher - risk surgeries that other hospitals would not even entertain.»

The hospital and Macchiarini have argued that the surgeries did not require ethical review because they were not clinical research but were performed as life - saving measures on patients with no other treatment options.

Surgical robots have performed fairly well in the operating theater in the past decade, helping physicians perform hysterectomies, prostate removals and other complex, yet minimally invasive surgeries.

These centers do not perform intracranial evaluations or other more complex epilepsy surgery.

Here, our surgeons have many years of experience performing gastrectomies and other types of major gastrointestinal surgeries.

Dr. Posner is a nationally known expert in pancreatic cancer surgery, with many years of experience performing the Whipple procedure and other complex surgeries.

Today, surgeons at the 215 - bed hospital perform more than 29,000 surgical procedures each year, with more hip surgeries and knee replacements performed than any other hospital in the U.S. [READ MORE]

In order to ensure that one donor does not withdraw after the other has already entered surgery, both transplants will be performed simultaneously.

Here at Penn Medicine and other academic medical centers, robotic surgery is already used in performing low - risk outpatient surgeries — but how did we get here, and what technology is ahead for care providers?

In fact, our surgeons perform more laparoscopic colorectal surgeries than any other academic medical center in Illinois.

5/21/2007 Nationwide Study Compares Surgeries to Treat Urinary Incontinence in Women The University of California, San Diego Medical Center along with nine other clinical research institutions across the United States has completed the largest randomized clinical trial to date comparing two commonly performed surgical procedures to t...

We also offer a complete evaluation for epilepsy surgery, including intracranial monitoring and complex surgical procedures that many other institutions do not perform.

Surgery is one of the most common types of cancer treatments and is often performed on localized tumors that haven't spread to other areas of the body.

In an article in The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Bruce Moseley, an orthopedic surgeon renowned for the knee surgeries he performed on people with debilitating knee pain, reported about a brilliant study he designed to prove that his signature knee surgery was more effective than others.

His doctor as well as other info I've looked up online & in books suggests he will need to live with a blocked carotid as there is no way to remove the plaque since they will not perform surgery (too risky) nor use the super powered drug to remove blockage (I was told they only use this when there is still some blood flow immediately following a stroke).

While general surgeons, ear / nose / throat surgeons, and some other types of surgeons can and do perform thyroidectomies, statistics suggest that the best outcomes, and the lowest risk of any complications in thyroid surgery, are found when surgeons have performed a substantial number of thyroid surgeries, and who in fact make thyroid surgery a significant part of their practice.

But your doctor or other health care provider can certainly hold your hand — while also prescribing drugs or performing surgery or offering other medical treatments — while you do the rest of the heavy lifting yourself.

Although some of those systems were never more than superfluous (especially the need to perform self - surgery after every minor combat injury), the others worked together in harmony.

Adding some depth in limited roles are Matthias Schoenaerts (Rust and Bone) as Hans, Einar's childhood friend all grown up, and Sebastian Koch (The Lives of Others) as the pioneering doctor who performs the sex reassignment surgeries that physically transition Einar into Lili.

For example, a family doctor makes a good income, but a neurosurgeon most certainly commands more money because he or she is a specialized doctor who has «mastered» the skill of performing complicated brain surgeries, amongst other things.

Other specialized testing (such as electroretinography (to test the electrical activity of the retina) or ocular ultrasound (to evaluate the eye or orbit when direct evaluation is not possible) may be recommended and can usually be performed the same day as the appointment or the scheduled day of surgery.

In breeds with a high risk of bloat, such as Great Danes, German Shepherd Dogs, and Akitas (as well as other deep chested dogs), a preventive surgery called a prophylactic gastropexy can often be performed when the dog is being spayed or neutered.

We perform routine pet spays, neuters, declaws, tumor removals, and other routine surgeries.

The goal of the externship is to provide training in high - volume and pediatric spay / neuter surgery, with exposure to other types of common surgeries performed in shelters such as amputation, enucleation, wound repair, cystotomy, cherry eye repair, entropion repair, mass removal, etc..

They perform surgical extractions, reconstructive surgery, repair fractures, and provide treatments for other types of oral trauma as warranted.

Many surgeons are reluctant to perform the surgery on large dogs while others, Dr. Turpel included, report good success in patients up to 45 kilograms if they are otherwise healthy and not too overweight.

In between surgeries, the group sits in this room to pour over research and perform consultations for other services and also for referring vets.

The cost for the MRI and the surgery was prohibitive at the other surgical practice, so Peanut's Mom and Dad looked for other surgical practices that could also perform the MRI.

Adopting him inspired me to rescue others; he was going to be euthanized because his eyelid had been split open and the shelter did not want to perform the surgery to sew it back together.

Some ferrets are diagnosed as having an insulinoma when an abdominal surgery is being performed for other reasons (adrenal gland disease, spay, liver disease).

Her professional interests include surgery and emergency medicine, and traveling to other countries to perform veterinary services for natives who are otherwise without (she has been to Honduras and Bolivia so far, and hopes to expand this list).

His surgery was performed by Dr Ammirata who asked the other doctor on duty to take over her other cases so she could give Jack the time she and he needed to perform the surgery to the best of her ability.

In addition to full dentistry services, we also perform oral tumor removal, gingival hyperplasia removal, oronasal fistula repair, and other types of oral surgery.

Last year we performed 2,775 in - house spay / neuters; 1,508 public spay / neuters; 659 other life - saving surgeries.

In addition to spay and neuter surgeries, veterinarians at the center perform more than 1,000 emergency and other needed surgeries each year.

We are excited to have Dr. Greco available to perform our TPLO procedures and other specialized surgeries.

We also perform tooth extractions and other oral surgery if deemed necessary for your pet's health and comfort.

This length of time should be minimized, for example by scheduling more frequent, shorter periods when these procedures are completed (four hours of surgery every other day versus six hours twice a week, for example), training additional staff to perform the procedure to the extent possible (e.g. training kennel attendants, field officers and / or front office staff to perform behavior evaluations), and / or making the animal available for adoption prior to completing the procedure (e.g. allowing animals to be selected for adoption prior to surgery, which is then completed before the animal is released).

These specialists perform these services through a combination of drugs, hyposensitization therapies, surgery, and other treatment procedures.