While we do focus on preventative care for pets, we see
sick patients too!
Not exact matches
There's little access for a
sick patient between a miracle cure that hasn't been discovered and one that is
too expensive to use.»
So, he and his colleagues reviewed the records of all the
patients in the unit over the course of a year to see whether the
patients might have been either
too sick, or
too healthy, to benefit from intensive care.
The researchers conducted their studies in mice because
patients with mutations in the STIM1 gene and that of the channel it activates, ORAI1, are extremely rare and often
too sick to study due to chronic infections and lymphoproliferative disease.
«What happens is a
patient in respiratory distress or heart failure is
too sick to tell us what they want, and when you look up their information in the medical record, most of the time nothing is documented,» Dr. Zimny says.
Because these receptors are mainly found deep inside the human lung,
patients developed very severe illness that frequently left them
too sick to spread SARS to many others; the people most at risk were health care workers who take care of
patients.
«Our findings indicate that physicians should feel confident recommending radiation therapy to
patients who are
too sick to undergo surgery or who choose not to undergo surgery for other reasons,» said Andrew M. Farach, MD, a radiation oncologist at Houston Methodist Hospital and lead author on the study.
Relapsing
patients tend to wait weeks before they see a doctor so they do not always get the best cancer care possible as they are already
too sick to handle the toxic effects of chemotherapy.
Often the
patient is
too sick to tolerate the stress of a bath and is
too young or
too small for flea control products.
Patients may lack resources, financial or otherwise, or may be
too sick to access the services they require without the benefit of a physician referral.
But what if the
patient doesn't get a hospital room or is
too sick to be transferred to the hospital.