Sentences with phrase «surgery than patients»

Coronary patients with companion animals are four times less likely to die within the first year after surgery than patients without them.

«Patients who received Lucentis showed a little bit better central vision, much less loss of their side vision, and substantially less risk for surgery than patients who received laser treatment,» said Lloyd Paul Aiello, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Beetham Eye Institute at Joslin Diabetes Center and Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School.

In a study in The Journal of Urology ®, researchers found that patients whose self - assessment of mental health was low suffered more high grade complications in the 30 days following surgery than patients with higher self - assessments.

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Patients who exercised more than others had a lower readmission risks following cancer surgery.

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.

From a patient perspective, Di Vinci offered faster, less invasive and quicker recovery times than conventional surgery.

A study in 2011 looking at more than 645 ACL surgeries found that in patients between the ages of 10 ««19, allograft tissue had a four times higher failure rate than using your own tissue.

However, parents and patients really need to understand that there is no proof that PRP will prevent surgery, relieve their symptoms, or be better than standard treatment options.

A 2012 study in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity found that people who listened to a relaxation CD before and after surgery had less stress and a speedier recovery than other patients.

Not to mention that in cases of surgery on a pediatric patient, they receive way more anesthesia medication than is in your milk.

For surgery, Parnell recommends going to a facility that offers up - front «package» prices for self - pay patients, such as the Surgery Center of Oklahoma and Regency Healthcare, where prices are typically much less than what is charged at most hossurgery, Parnell recommends going to a facility that offers up - front «package» prices for self - pay patients, such as the Surgery Center of Oklahoma and Regency Healthcare, where prices are typically much less than what is charged at most hosSurgery Center of Oklahoma and Regency Healthcare, where prices are typically much less than what is charged at most hospitals.

Today, targeted chemotherapy and more precise surgery means that more breast cancer patients are surviving than ever.

Trials in GP surgeries have featured major brand names, like WeightWatchers, Slimming World and Cambridge Weight Plan, more often than you have had diet shakes, and hundreds of patients have lost weight, and kept it off.

Canada's heart surgery patients wait more than 10 weeks after seeing the doctor, and two months for CABG even after cardiologist appointments.

Officials at Long Island's only veterans hospital kept local members of Congress in the dark over problems that have closed the facility's operating rooms for more than two months, forcing scores of surgery patients to seek care in centers as far away as the Bronx and Manhattan.

Low income heart patients are more likely to die after surgery than those higher up the social scale, a report published by the British Medical Journal has found.

Twelve months ago half the patients admitted for routine surgery waited more than 18 weeks, 12 per cent of them for more than a year.

To address this, researchers looked at hospital records — from 66 low, middle and high income countries — for more than 12,000 patients undergoing surgery on the digestive system.

«By 2005 we realized we were doing more than just obesity surgery; we were really manipulating the metabolism of these patients,» Teixeira says.

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.

The findings echo past studies, which have shown patients with multiple narrowed arteries have better outcomes with coronary artery bypass grafting, also known as CABG or heart bypass surgery, than with angioplasty, also known as percutaneous coronary intervention or PCI, a less - invasive option in which a stent is inserted to hold the arteries open.

Patients 65 and older who have ambulatory surgery are much more likely to be readmitted to the hospital within 30 days than younger patients, regardless of their health before surgery, reports a new, large national Northwestern MedicinPatients 65 and older who have ambulatory surgery are much more likely to be readmitted to the hospital within 30 days than younger patients, regardless of their health before surgery, reports a new, large national Northwestern Medicinpatients, regardless of their health before surgery, reports a new, large national Northwestern Medicine study.

In recent years, the use of transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR, has made the repair safer: Physicians place a new valve in the heart via a catheter inserted through the patient's leg, which results in less injury and an easier recovery than open heart surgery.

In a second surgical procedure less than a week after the brain surgery, Velly and his colleagues took readings from the deep - brain electrodes in 25 patients while also collecting electrode readings from their scalp.

Heart surgery patients in rooms with nature scenes on the wall experienced less anxiety and smoother recoveries than patients with blank walls or abstract art.

Estimates suggest that more than 230 million patients undergo surgery worldwide each year, with reported mortality rates between 1 percent and 4 percent.

Patients undergoing surgery for a hip fracture were older and had more medical conditions than patients who underwent an elective total hip replacement, factors that may contribute to the higher risk of in - hospital death and major postoperative complications experienced by hip fracture surgery patients, according to a study in the September 15 issue Patients undergoing surgery for a hip fracture were older and had more medical conditions than patients who underwent an elective total hip replacement, factors that may contribute to the higher risk of in - hospital death and major postoperative complications experienced by hip fracture surgery patients, according to a study in the September 15 issue patients who underwent an elective total hip replacement, factors that may contribute to the higher risk of in - hospital death and major postoperative complications experienced by hip fracture surgery patients, according to a study in the September 15 issue patients, according to a study in the September 15 issue of JAMA.

«Patients undergoing surgery for a hip fracture were older and had more comorbidities than patients who underwent an elective THR, and these differences accounted for some of the difference in outcomes between these groups,» the authorPatients undergoing surgery for a hip fracture were older and had more comorbidities than patients who underwent an elective THR, and these differences accounted for some of the difference in outcomes between these groups,» the authorpatients who underwent an elective THR, and these differences accounted for some of the difference in outcomes between these groups,» the authors write.

Researchers found that patients were less likely to undergo surgery if they were older than 50 years, black, unmarried or located in regions outside the East, among other factors.

Pressure ulcers affect more than 2.5 million Americans annually and patients who have spinal cord injuries that impair movement are more vulnerable to developing them, said senior investigator Yoram Vodovotz, Ph.D., professor of surgery and director of the Center for Inflammation and Regenerative Modeling at the Pitt School of Medicine.

Fewer than half of all patients who undergo surgery for lung cancer survive as long as 5 years.

For patients younger than 65, 3 percent had general complications and 6 percent had thyroid surgery - related complications.

In other words, regardless of surgery timing, patients who require higher risk procedures, such as a major liver resection due to the presence of larger or multiple metastatic tumors or high - risk colorectal resections, have poorer outcomes than those who underwent more minor surgery.

The study, published in the September issue of Annals of Surgery online, shows that providing pricing information upfront can influence patient choice of surgical procedures and potentially lead to cost savings in health care, a sector of the economy that accounts for more than 17 percent of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product, says Eric R. Scaife, M.D., senior author, associate professor of surgery and chief of pediatric surgery at the University of Utah (U of U) School of MeSurgery online, shows that providing pricing information upfront can influence patient choice of surgical procedures and potentially lead to cost savings in health care, a sector of the economy that accounts for more than 17 percent of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product, says Eric R. Scaife, M.D., senior author, associate professor of surgery and chief of pediatric surgery at the University of Utah (U of U) School of Mesurgery and chief of pediatric surgery at the University of Utah (U of U) School of Mesurgery at the University of Utah (U of U) School of Medicine.

After the surgery, patients and parents were surveyed and the results showed that those who received pricing information chose open surgery 1.8 times more often — 63 percent versus 35 percent — than those who were unaware of the cost differences.

The findings reveal that breast cancer patients who received local anesthetic had superior pain relief, spent less time in recovery rooms after surgery, and were discharged an hour earlier than patients who were put under general anesthesia.

The study used clinical measurements for maximum reliability in identifying heart attacks, because symptoms are masked by pain - killing drugs in more than 50 percent of patients who have heart attacks after surgery.

«For most patients with diabetes and a BMI (body mass index) greater than 35, bariatric surgery increases life expectancy,» says Daniel Schauer, MD, assistant professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at UC.

Although treatment has improved, the surgery rate in patients with ductal adenocarcinoma is around 30 percent and the five - year survival rate is less than 20 percent.

«The patient population that is indicated for bariatric surgery is different than the universe of patients who are just morbidly obese.

New research shows that bariatric surgery (also known as obesity surgery) is much more effective than an intensive lifestyle / medication intervention at reversing type 2 diabetes in patients with only mild - to - moderate obesity.

A new study appearing in the February 4th issue of the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery (JBJS) found significant benefit from surgical treatment for lumbar spinal stenosis with and without degenerative spondylolisthesis — debilitating spinal conditions causing leg and back pain, numbness and weakness — and no higher overall complication rate and no higher mortality for patients age 80 and older when compared to patients younger than age 80.

High - volume lung transplant centers have lower transplantation costs and their patients are less likely to be readmitted within 30 days of leaving the hospital following surgery, according to a new study of more than 3,000 Medicare patients who received lung transplants.

In her own research on hip fracture, which was cited in Guyatt's study, she found that the time a patient had to wait before surgery — which was significantly longer in Canada than the U.S. because of a shortage of operating rooms — made only a 1 percent difference in terms of mortality.

«Bariatric surgery better than intensive lifestyle, drug interventions at reversing diabetes in mildly to moderately obese patients.»

«However, IL6 - secreting tumors could be laying the groundwork for metastasis much earlier than surgery occurs in a patient,» he said.

Based on the results of this study, surgery should be considered a viable treatment option for these lumbar conditions in patients older than age 80.

Using data from 2007 to 2011 for more than 675,000 patients from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) for California that included information on patient discharge, outpatient surgeries, and emergency department records, researchers were able to link surgical records to postoperative diagnoses of ODO occurring within one year of surgery.

The Hospital for Special Surgery study is the first to provide evidence that an intervention during surgery can improve outcomes in patients with sleep apnea who often fare worse than patients without this conSurgery study is the first to provide evidence that an intervention during surgery can improve outcomes in patients with sleep apnea who often fare worse than patients without this consurgery can improve outcomes in patients with sleep apnea who often fare worse than patients without this condition.

More than 500,000 patients every year develop an SSI, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).1 Orthopedic procedures have a low SSI rate, ranging from 0.7 to 2.1 infections for every 100 cases.2 Nevertheless, orthopedic surgery patients with SSIs have a two times higher rate of rehospitalization and a 300 percent increase in treatment costs.3