Sentences with phrase «used by the surgeon»

Created in 2013, the NSQIP Surgical Risk Calculator is a web - based decision aid and informed consent tool widely used by surgeons and their patients.

So at best, robots have been used by surgeons as a nonautonomous «third hand.»

The method also represents an early but important step toward building fully functional replacements for injured or diseased tissue that can be designed from CAT scan data using computer - aided design (CAD), printed in 3D at the push of a button, and used by surgeons to repair or replace damaged tissue.

Tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) is a drug commonly used by surgeons to bust open blood clots in a patient's bloodstream, but it does have its limitations.

Stents used by surgeons today are composed of metallic wires and are unable to carry and deliver anti-cancer drugs to treat esophageal tumors and prevent tumor tissue ingrowth.

One example given: Lubin & Meyer lawsuits are at the center of the controversy over the practice of a single surgeon double - booking or overlapping surgeries — used by surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital and others — which was recently covered in an exposé by the Boston Globe's Spotlight Team.

The job description of the surgical assistant is to provide technical support by making sure that all items needed for a procedure to be carried out successfully are available for use by surgeons to avoid complications as a result of unavailability of equipment.

He / she is expected to know the tools to be used by the surgeon at any point of the procedure and prepare them before the surgical procedure starts.

Sterile processing technicians clean instruments used by surgeons, physicians, nurses, laboratory workers and other health professionals.

Not exact matches

Using an app created by a company called Medical Realities, viewers from around the globe, each presumably with an iron constitution, witnessed a surgeon at the Royal London NHS Hospital delve into the bowels of a 70 - year - old cancer patient.

Recently, it is being advocated by eminent paediatric surgeons and lactation consultants who see a role for trained midwives, nurses and lactation consultants in using this simple and effective method of releasing a tight frenum that is inhibiting breastfeeding in neonates.

What I care about is that the right tool is used for the type of tie, the age of the baby and wielded by a skilled surgeon who knows how to properly use their surgical tool and how to properly treat the baby in the process.

In another study of 471 soccer games using a goal post padding system developed by Dr. David Janda, an orthopedic surgeon and director of the Institute for Preventive Sports Medicine in Ann Arbor, Michigan, there were seven major collisions between a goalie and the post, but no injuries.

I later found out from another plastic surgeon that the implant had not just «contracted» (which was a very typical outcome) but it had also ruptured — so I had unknowingly fed my baby girl breast milk that may have been tainted by silicone gel and the many chemicals that are used to make the silicone!

What remains to be seen, researchers say, is whether the surgery was done to save the cow's life or whether it was used by aspiring surgeons for perfecting delicate techniques before operating on fellow humans.

Also, because the treatment is invasive — requiring brain surgeons to drill into the skull and deliver the therapy to the right spot in the brain — it should only be used by severely afflicted patients that don't respond to other drugs.

Evidence and recommendations related to e-cigarette use by plastic surgery patients are discussed in a special topic paper in the December issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery ®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).

China has long been shunned by the global community of transplant surgeons because it used prisoners as donors, which is regarded as unethical because prisoners can be coerced.

Measuring a surgeon's average number of cuts was recently endorsed by the American College of Mohs Surgery (ACMS) as a clinical quality metric used to assess its members.

The surgeon told her that as long as he was «in there» doing a hysterectomy, he could fix her urinary problem by using some synthetic mesh as a sling to support her bladder.

For patients who need surgery for facial pain caused by trigeminal neuralgia, the most cost - effective procedure is the least often used, reports a study in the September issue of Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons.

Developed in the 1990s by plastic surgeon Fiona Wood, head of the Burn Service of Western Australia, spray - on skin made international headlines in 2002 when she used it to treat survivors of terrorist bombings that killed 202 people in Bali.

«By using an optimized map, we would be able to cut geographic disparities in liver allocation in half,» says study author Dorry Segev, a transplant surgeon at Johns Hopkins.

A team led by Francesco Maisano, co-director of the University Heart Center at the University Hospital Zurich (UHZ) and professor for Heart Surgery at the University of Zurich, made up of heart surgeons and cardiologists used new catheter technology to repair a leaky tricuspid valve for the very first time.

«E-cigarettes went from being rare in 2010 to being the most common tobacco product used by our nation's youth,» said surgeon general Vivek Murthy on Thursday.

«STS public reporting uses a measurement system that was developed by surgeons, in conjunction with statisticians; all our measures are completely transparent and published in peer - reviewed journals.

The study, providing the first picture of alcohol use and binge drinking by US college students with disabilities, is out in Public Health Reports, a SAGE Publishing journal and the official journal of the Office of the U.S. Surgeon General and the U.S. Public Health Service.

In the second group, the catheters were inserted using laparoscopy under general anesthesia by surgeons.

In medicine, a surgeon might be able to perform remote operations beyond the simple use of a scalpel, or train for tumor screening by feeling for virtual lumps in real tissue.

«Retrieving a clot from within the heart used to require open - heart surgery, resulting in longer hospitalization, recovery and rehabilitation times compared to the minimally invasive approach provided by the AngioVac system,» said Dr. Murray Kwon, a UCLA cardiothoracic surgeon who collaborated on Dunlap's procedure.

Tissue - based planning systems — using clinical guidelines to determine the optimal breast implant dimensions for individual patients — appear superior to approaches relying more on the patient's or surgeon's preference, according to the study by Drs. William P. Adams, Jr., of University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, and Daniel McKee of McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont., Canada.

The multicenter study, led by Scripps Clinic orthopedic surgeon Clifford Colwell, MD evaluated the efficacy of a mobile compression device that is small and portable enough for patients to use at home for 10 days or longer after joint replacement surgery.

Furthermore, a doctor in Chicago using robotic servants to sew up an astronaut on the moon may be limited by the speed of light, which lags the movements of the surgeon's hands over long distances.

Virtual surgery used in this manner has also been limited by technology, as most computers available to surgeons for this work can do little more than render relatively crude images of tissue, muscles and organs.

The use of steroids varies by country, hospital and surgeon.

Using the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP ®), the Florida Surgical Care Initiative (FSCI) was able to reduce complications by 14.5 percent.

Toxic side - effects of a drug used to treat liver cancer could be reduced with a filtration system developed by surgeons in the US.

Hungarian chemist Zoltán Takáts wondered if he could speed things up by directly analyzing the smoke created by the electrosurgical knives that surgeons use to cut and cauterize blood vessels.

When the ACS implemented its model for measuring surgical outcomes in adult surgery in 2004, it quickly became clear that, while that system would be useful in an adult setting, it couldn't be used by pediatric surgeons.

Most heart surgeons use 2D images taken by X-ray, ultrasound and MRI for surgical planning.

In order to provide the benefits of palpation to minimally invasive surgery, a team of engineers and doctors at Vanderbilt University headed by Pietro Valdastri, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and medicine, has designed a special - purpose wireless capsule equipped with a pressure sensor that fits through the small ports that surgeons use for what is also called «keyhole» surgery.

Funded by industry sponsors, the study of 50 surgeons using the new technology showed improvements in surgical precision and speed.

Glycoprotein IIb / IIIa inhibitors are widely used by U.S. surgeons and rarely used in Europe, so neither requiring nor forbidding the use of these drugs is an accurate reflection of a real - world setting in which these drugs are used part of the time.

«The hope behind something like this capsule is that the surgeon will be able to place it inside the body through an existing incision and leave it in a position where it can be easily grasped and used to map out the stiffness or density of the tissue when needed, much like he or she would palpate it with by hand in open surgery,» said collaborator S. Duke Herrell, associate professor of urologic surgery at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

Nguyen is developing ways to guide surgeons during tumor removal surgery by using fluorescent compounds to make tumor cells — and just tumor cells — glow during surgery, which helps surgeons perform successful operations and get more of the cancer out of the body.

Yesterday the BBC News and Guardian Newspaper reported that a team led by surgeon Professor Robert Maclaren at the Oxford Eye Hospital had succeeded in using gene therapy to halt the decline in vision in six patients with the progressive eye disorder choroideremia.

CHICAGO (December 1, 2016): Newly released guidelines for the prevention, detection, and management of surgical site infections (SSIs) issued by the American College of Surgeons and the Surgical Infection Society provide a comprehensive set of recommendations clinicians can use to optimize surgical care and educate patients about ways to contribute to their own well - being.

Approximately 21 million Americans have some form of substance use disorder, according to a 2016 report by the U.S. surgeon general.

Alexandria Aguila - Velez of Kennesaw, Georgia, who adopted Zion from China, recalls attempts by a surgeon to fashion Spider - Man prostheses for the young child to use.

March 23, 2018 - In the not - so - distant future, surgeons could ensure the complete removal of malignant tumors, and pathologists could analyze tissue more efficiently, by using a device invented at the Indiana University School of Medicine.