Sentences with phrase «prevent complications from surgery»

However, there are no current guidelines governing glucose levels prior to surgery, and there has been little evidence to showing that staying within this level will help prevent complications from surgery.

Scientists may have found a way to prevent complications from surgery to treat cataract, the world's leading cause of blindness.

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The idea that colchicine — a poison drawn from the seeds and stem of the lovely autumn crocus — could be used to prevent complications in patients undergoing heart surgery was an intoxicating one.

To guide the spending of that money, the National Institute of Medicine made a priority list of situations for which data about outcomes are badly needed — for instance, comparing the effectiveness of various medical and behavioral interventions to prevent the elderly from falling (the complications of which are a leading cause of death), comparing assorted drugs and surgeries alone or in combination in the treatment of specific cancers, comparing the effectiveness of different implants and devices for treating hearing loss, and so forth.

Following surgery, patients may have permanent physical damage, may be prevented from returning to work, and severe complications can cause death of the patient.