Sentences with phrase «sick patients who»

Its refugees are extremely sick patients who sometimes die waiting in a bureaucracy that determines their fate based largely on old boundaries that don't take into account differences in supply and demand.

«I think using our frailty index can kind of enlighten surgeons into recognizing that even if they are doing an elective case, such as total knee or hip replacement, sicker patients who have significant medical histories may have a high risk of wound infections and even mortality,» Dr. Adams said.

I made up my own and the reason why I did it is because I found a lot of the order was messed up, meaning a lot of people will say remove, but they'll say remove the foods and they'll put the infections in the same place, and the problem with that is people — or I should say — functional medicine practitioners and doctors really screw this up because they take a sick patient who can't regulate inflammation, they can't digest foods, they're already inflamed, and they go after a massive infection.

Not exact matches

Thoughts and prayers are the kind of thing you send to sick children, patients with cancer, friends who have lost a loved one to old age or illness.

An example of this is the story of the sick man who had to be let down through the roof into the room Jesus occupied because the door was blocked by large numbers of people (Mark 2:1 - 5) It is significant that apparently the friends and not the patient himself sought the healing and had the expectant trust.

Many natural health doctors who understand the health benefits of coconut will recommend a tablespoon of coconut oil every 2 - 3 hours for their very sick patients.

I had to do a home health rotation in nursing school and it was drilled home that it is beyond unprofessional to expect a patient to feed you, especially one who's is sick or, I don't know, in labor...

A few years ago, players in the Central Missouri Eagles Youth Ice Hockey program which I help coach spent the afternoon with sick, injured and disabled patients at a local children's hospital who must clear substantial hurdles before they can play the sports so many families simply take for granted.

His main concerns over the legislation known as the Compassionate Care Act include allowing patients to smoke the drug, as well as the availability of marijuana to those who are not sick.

Geoff Oxnard, an assistant professor of medicine at Dana - Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School in Boston and one of Paweletz's collaborators, remarks that «I had a hospitalized patient last week, she's sick with metastatic lung cancer, and she's exactly the kind of patient who might have an [epithelial growth factor receptor (EGFR)-RSB- mutation, but I simply didn't have enough tissue to ask those questions yet.»

The enzyme is worrisome because it arms bacteria against carbapenems, a group of last - resort antibiotics, says Alexander Kallen, a CDC medical epidemiologist based in Atlanta, who calls the drugs «our biggest guns for our sickest patients.»

In 1 in 10 cases, people infected with these germs spread the disease to apparently healthy people in the hospital — such as patients, doctors or nurses — who in turn can act as silent carriers of illness, infecting others even if they don't become sick.

Partly because patients do not start to feel sick until their CD4 counts drop to around 200, «over half of those [three to five million] still don't know they have HIV,» Crowley says To raise health awareness, the WHO has been recommending increased HIV testing and monitoring of CD4 levels.

A new study of patients who survive the once - nearly fatal Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) finds their subsequent quality of life has more to do with lifestyle factors than how sick they were in the hospital.

I'm absolutely convinced that I have never taken a sicker patient to the operating room, even if I include in my recollections those few who didn't leave it alive.

Gehrke is one of millions of patients who have unwittingly contracted infections in hospitals, where they went expecting to get well — but instead got sicker.

CAMBRIDGE, U.K. — If you lived in the time of Shakespeare and wanted to know whether your sick child was going to make it, you might well have paid a visit to the shady offices of physician - cum - astrologer Simon Forman, who, with his student Richard Napier, advised more than 30,000 patients and clients during their careers.

«We see patients who we're treating for ARDS who are very sick and, who at the time, may not look like their quality of life will be great, but our study shows that their level of acuity is not a marker of whether they will experience a high quality of life once they leave the hospital,» said Dr. Brown.

Hopkins speculates that prescribers who were used to frequent shortages may have saved ACTs for the sickest patients.

«Clinicians also can use these findings to help their patients and clients as can legislators who are actively evaluating the value of mandating paid sick leave.»

However, in recent years, patient advocacy groups have helped draw attention to the plight of hypothyroid patients who feel sick despite taking levothyroxine and having normal TSH levels.

Desperate, the science writer reluctantly turned to other CFS patients on the Internet who touted a theory she initially dismissed as crazy — that toxic mold was making her sick.

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 job was to document what was going on, sketch out some basic epidemiology, take samples from acutely sick patients, and, if possible, find recovering convalescents who might provide plasma to help cure future sufferers.

«Those of us who work in hospital intensive care units need to make sure we have the tools we need to help patients with opioid use disorders when they are at their sickest, because there doesn't appear to be any end to this epidemic in sight.»

A MERS patient from Abu Dhabi who died in a hospital in Germany in March owned racing camels and reported that he had close contact with a sick camel before falling ill, but the affected Middle Eastern countries have shared little information about other patients.

Someone with a heart transplant who is sick is different than a standard hospital patient.»

«He came in very sick, thinned, in a lot of pain, not very active, needing frequent blood transfusions,» says Charles Rudin, associate director of clinical research at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, who treated the patient.

«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.

But the immune systems of patients who'd been sick for more than three years appeared exhausted — a distinction never seen before.

Zelicoff suggests that the strain was unusually infectious, because three of the 25 people who were vaccinated against smallpox and were close to a vaccinated patient got sick themselves — an unusually high percentage.

«All we knew for a long time was that special immune cells called histiocytes were found in the tissue of patients who were sick,» says Melissa Hines, MD, of St. Jude Critical Care.

Because is hard to predict who will develop the disease, human studies typically occur after patients are quite sick.

Hospitalists typically work in shifts; therefore, within the same hospital, patients treated by hospitalists are plausibly quasi-randomized to a given physician based on when patients become sick and based on hospitalists» work schedule.34 We defined hospitalists using a validated approach: general internists who filed at least 90 % of their total evaluation and management billings in an inpatient setting.35 Second, to evaluate whether our findings were sensitive to how we attributed patients to physicians, we tested the following 2 alternative attribution methods: attributing patients to physicians who had the largest number of evaluation and management claims and attributing patients to physicians who billed the first evaluation and management claim for a given hospitalization.25, 36,37 Third, within some hospitals, male internists may be more likely to work in intensive care units and have severely ill patients.

Patients who had paid sick leave were nearly twice as likely to retain their jobs as those without paid sick leave.

Sourpik Avakian, MD, a family practitioner in Beverly Hills who is Seshadris doctor, says that about 20 % of her patients actually get sick more frequently after quitting, with increased coughing and susceptibility to upper respiratory infections — at least for the first few months.

So, we had a patient who was just really, really sick, and he was just getting sicker and sicker.

Many natural health doctors who understand the health benefits of coconut will recommend a tablespoon of coconut oil every 2 - 3 hours for their very sick patients.

While no one wants to think about work when they are sick, patients who must wear a cast for an extended period of time can greatly benefit.

She said she is prescribing flu antivirals in advance to her sickest patients — those who are elderly, on chemotherapy, or suffering with immune system problems, heart or lung disease, or diabetes.

I'm also seeing patients who are attributing some of their getting sick like how I had that perfect storm of stress events to receiving tetanus vac — vaccination --

We want photos of you sweeping the glitter off the village hall floor; heading out to teach 5 people on a dark evening half an hour's drive away after a long day at work; your piles of philosophy books stacked next to your mat; your tabs of marking for trainees; the scrubby you use on the handstand footprints on the wall; the loose change rattling in the donation box after the PWYC; your studio rent bill; the baby sick on your yoga top after mums and baby yoga; the holes in your favourite decade - old yoga leggings; the charity shop where you buy more; coffee stains on cork blocks and the hospital room where you teach cancer patients; the costume box for your yoga and theatre kids class; your ID badge for prison work; the hug from the student who finally learned to stand on one leg...

Another alarming thing is the whole «within range» thing — the lab that ran your test has a range that's made up of prior patients... patients who may have been much sicker than you, thereby skewing the range into the unhealthy territory.

As I mentioned earlier that we see a certain group of patients who always «always sick» or who are chronically fatigued from the hurry and worry of modern life.

I've known many sick psoriasis patients who can even be considered «social lepers», they go nowhere, can't eat out, have minimal friends and can feel like an outcast.

Districts in Solon, Ohio, and Belton, Texas, closed several schools after learning that students or staff members were either on the same flight or had flown on the same plane as one of two Dallas nurses who became sick with the virus this month after treating the United States» first Ebola patient.

It means that Bell Shoals Animal Hospital is prepared to diagnose, treat, and hospitalize those patients who are very sick or severely injured and provide the best medical and surgical care available today.

Being a full service veterinary hospital, means we are prepared to diagnose, treat, and hospitalize those patients who are very sick or severely injured and provide the best medical and surgical care available today.

In the front range where most of our clients live, we polled four veterinarians who frequently refer medical cases to us and asked: «If your patient was sick or injured and needed comprehensive after hours emergency care, where would you send the cat?»

This test is commonly done for patients who have been sick for less than four days.