Sentences with phrase «rather than surgery»

Thankfully the second vet was able to remove the object with a scope, rather than surgery.

The best way to diagnose lymphoma is with a biopsy; in some cases this can be done with a needle rather than surgery.

Not exact matches

Regulatory and social issues could also be factors many hospital patients will want a human nurse rather than a robot to care for them when they wake up after surgery.

Rather than perform surgery, Mayer drew out the Yahoo layoffs into death by a thousand cuts.

The next step was to schedule surgery to remove what everyone hoped was a benign (rather than malignant) tumour.

When you add in the hip surgery, well, I have to start wondering if he will ever be a dominant lineman, which is what you are looking for in the first round, rather than just a pretty good one on the next level, which you can usually find in the second round or later.

If surgery is needed, most cases of hip labral tears can be treated with arthroscopic surgery rather than an open procedure.

Sorry for the spam, but I don't really think this squad needs any surgery, I just think they need to play better individually and as a unit, and Wenger should be grilled on that rather than anything else.

Progression is based on meeting functional criteria, rather than the time elapsed since surgery.

No doubt I'd rather have a cardiac arrest in hospital than in my GP's surgery, although both GPs and hospital doctors have had CPr training.

Realize that a doctor's definition of elective is any surgery that is planned in advance rather than an emergency, even if it is absolutely necessary.

Some moms report feeling lack of closure when they have surgery rather than passing their baby naturally, while others would rather not have the experience of giving birth to their deceased child.

Well, looking at the 10 steps I failed at: — # 6 nothing other than breast milk (gave hungry baby formula b / c I was too tired and drugged up to nurse more than 5 minutes)-- # 7 rooming in (being tired and drugged up I actually wanted to sleep)-- # 9 no pacifiers (I would rather baby have the SIDS prevention and soothing that comes from sucking)-- # 4 initiate breastfeeding within 30 minutes of birth (that C - section thing where they sliced my guts open interfered with that timing)-- # 10 I was referred to the support group but sure as hell didn't go (because I deemed healing at home from my surgery more important than being browbeaten about how I was feeding my baby).

Women need to start loving their bodies and celebrating their best features, rather than rushing to get breast implant surgery, tummy tucks or liposuction.

Howard recommends pumping if you want to get more rest after surgery and would rather your baby have a bottle than breastfeed.

Headlines and government agencies should be asking why obstetricians are performing unnecessary surgery on healthy pregnant women for no medical reason, rather than promoting the fiction of increasing rates of «maternal request» cesareans.

He now offers «advise surgeries» rather than «advice surgeries».

Results from a 2006 study in Ireland and the U.S. suggest that patients who undergo surgery to remove breast or prostate cancer might be less prone to recurrence if they are administered regional anesthesia during their procedures, rather than general anesthesia alone.

One analysis estimated that cataract surgeries performed at ambulatory surgery centers rather than hospitals saved Medicare $ 829 million in 2011.

The new study is one of the first to provide information on the costs of spinal fusion surgery, rather than charges.

«To put the risks in perspective, if 100 patients had a partial knee rather than a total knee replacement there would be one fewer death and three more re-operations in the first four years after surgery.»

The high mustache indices in plastic and general surgery were, however, «driven by the absence of moustaches rather than the number of women,» the authors write.

Based on an analysis of existing evidence, published in an opinion article in the Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology journal on January 20, Dr. Narod argues that to achieve a cure, rather than simply delay progression or reoccurrence of the disease, women should be first treated with aggressive surgery to remove all clinically - detectable cancer cells, followed by targeted chemotherapy to the abdomen (intraperitoneal chemotherapy).

Chemotherapy should be offered after the surgery, rather than before.

Minimally invasive surgery, which uses a few small incisions rather than one large incision, has been associated with better outcomes than open surgery, including fewer surgical site infections, less pain and shorter hospital stays.

«Our study suggests that follow - up with bariatric specialists more than 5 years after surgery, rather than with specialists with no bariatric expertise, can decrease long - term anemia risk.

Dr Jeremy Thomas, a consultant pathologist at the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK, told the European Breast Cancer Conference that although the majority of women with DCIS received the correct surgery for their disease, large numbers of women were undergoing mastectomy for DCIS either as a result of failed breast conservation surgery or for tumors that turned out to be smaller than 20 mm in diameter and therefore should normally have had a lumpectomy rather than a mastectomy.

«Laparoscopic rather than open surgery made the biggest impact on the surgical experience and recovery, but we have improved surgical techniques all the way from preoperative evaluations to better post-operative care.»

«It could lead to planned, elective operations rather than emergency surgery.»

In addition, this new program focuses more on morbidity as a measure of surgical outcomes, rather than mortality, which Dr. Moss said better encompasses the specific nature of pediatric surgery.

«Prostate cancer can often be an indolent disease, where a patient may only require surveillance rather than aggressive surgery,» noted co-author Christopher J. Kane, MD, professor of urology at UC San Diego.

«Our findings suggest that throwing a high percentage of fastballs rather than off - speed pitches puts more stress on the elbow,» says Robert Keller, M.D., chief resident in Henry Ford's Department of Orthopedic Surgery and the study's lead author.

For example, a recent study of outcomes after lung cancer surgery demonstrated fewer complications and a higher success rate of cancerous node removal in patients who had their procedures performed by a thoracic surgeon, rather than a cardiac or general surgeon.

Minimally invasive surgery is the practice of performing surgical procedures through tiny cuts rather than long incisions.

Then two retrospective studies showed that breast or prostate cancer patients who received local or regional anesthesia rather than systemic morphine had improved survival after surgery.

Some experts advocate a hands - off approach of so - called «active surveillance» rather than treating it immediate with surgery or radiation, but there's confusion about what such monitoring means — it's not just doing nothing.

That's one reason why after surgery your primary care team will try to get you up and moving sooner than later, rather than keeping you on bed rest as long as possible.

«I would rather we have them use large pens and get different doorknobs [that are easier to grip] than have surgery.»

There are many cases of people who have opted for yoga, rather than back surgery with very positive results.

I found this to be a very good book written by a cardiologist who is learned to step outside the box and heal your heart with natural remedies rather than drugs and / or surgeries.

31 - year old Felicity Jones still looks to be relying on youth to appear young and fresh faced, rather than any plastic surgery although she will likely have facials and possible laser treatments before the big night.

Or you seek whole - person care, rather than the band - aids of surgery and pills.

Functional medicine addresses Hashimoto's by looking at the root causes rather than masking symptoms with drugs or surgery.

There is a new study showing that in ballet dancers, it is extreme range of motion rather than hip joint structure, that leads to hip pathologies that may eventually require surgery such as thinning of articular cartilage, labral tears and osteoarthritis.

Dating doesn't have to feel like open - heart surgery, says professional relationship coach Lauren Frances Long ago, when romance seekers hunted in the field (aka bars) rather than cyberspace, Lauren Frances organized Man Trap Packs — posses of single women who hit the town to find love.

I can think of so many other things I'd rather be doing than playing Deep Black: Episode 1, things such as having brain surgery, or for instance, going to jail.

To analogize, I would rather have a «master» doctor performing heart surgery on me than a «lowly» career doctor.

Your vet will much rather take an x-ray and see a normal stomach than go into surgery on a dog who's too far gone to save.

$ 1000 could help 15 cats be sterilized and treated, rather than to help 1 cat with needed dental surgery.

A paradigm shift is in order in recommending total hip replacement surgery from «wait until it is absolutely necessary because nothing else works any longer» to «perform hip replacement surgery sooner rather than later.»