Sentences with phrase «waiting for surgery»

Having to wait, or not being able to afford, to take one's case to court might not be as physically painful as waiting for a surgery, but it must be wrenching all the same.

Is your child waiting for surgery to fix a heart defect?

I wonder how many people waiting for a surgery that keeps getting delayed will respond favorably to this plea for more money to be spent on - that is, for money to be transferred from some other place to - the legal system?

While Gracie was waiting for surgery, she was managed with a splint around her neck.

Check traps frequently and provide a warm place for the cats to stay while waiting for surgery and after.

My husband was injured at work and is waiting for surgery himself and I have been unable to find a job since I got laid off.

There, Harper McConnell, an American woman from University of Minnesota, has begun a school for children, a training program for women waiting for surgery, and she is creating a study abroad project for American students who would like to spend a month at a university in Goma (www.healafrica.org).

The study involved patients waiting for surgery in England.

His research involved 50 women who had been recently diagnosed with breast cancer and were waiting for surgery.

In a sample of patients waiting for surgery, some were given drugs to aid with relaxation, while others were exposed to relaxing music.

«It means longer waits for surgeries.

There are waits for some surgeries but we're working on those.

I just had surgery to repair a torn ACL and my MRI had also shown a torn menisci... My surgeon was going to fix both while he was in there, but my menisci had actually healed itself in the time that I waited for my surgery (about 6 months from my MRI to my surgery).

Not exact matches

As I waited for my hip replacement surgery, I was lifting, toning and burning my way to stronger, firmer thighs, seat and lower abs.

«British Columbians are paying more, and as we're seeing increased wait times for surgeries and even primary care, they're getting less health care from their government.»

«Patients in British Columbia have some of the longest wait times in Canada for some crucial surgeries.

Central Albertans are waiting longer for surgery, and the lives of some are even at risk, that's according to a group of doctors speaking out.

«My office keeps hearing stories about people waiting too long, like the five - year - old boy who hasn't been able to hear because he's been waiting 14 months for surgery,» said New Democrat health spokesperson Judy Darcy.

is the founder and executive director of the Preemptive Love Coalition, an organization that works across Iraq to eradicate the backlog of children waiting in line for lifesaving heart surgeries.

To make sure I understand, I think, your mother was ready to be operated on but you were waiting on surgery for a priest that never showed up?

Many of us shine light into the dark in quieter ways: by volunteering at a soup kitchen or a prison, by donating blood, by sitting in the waiting room during a friend's surgery, by caring for an aging parent.

Over time, Ali joined our effort to eradicate the backlog of children who were waiting for these lifesaving surgeries.

When Bob Sura returns from back surgery early in the season, he'll serve as a combo guard whose aggressive D will make up for the fact that he's a turnover waiting to happen....

«I was injured for the last six months with an ankle surgery, that's why I wanted to wait, to see how I was feeling about the end of the season and if I could have another go at this level.

Tomas Rosicky will not be available for some time after he had to undergo surgery on his knee recently, but apart from that we are just waiting for the two England internationals Jack Wilshere and Danny Welbeck.

Waiting for me to get out of surgery, Tim fed Isaac formula milk a couple of times.

Some featured pregnant women, others patients waiting for varicose vein surgery.

But I'm also worried about any time I have to be somewhere for a night or like when I can go scuba diving again (we leave at about 5 am but I had surgery a month ago so I had to wait and then had a tooth pulled last week so... More waiting!!

As we waited in the hospital for his surgery to begin, the nurses started bringing around breakfast and he'd point and sign «eat», crying because he didn't understand why we weren't complying.

Throughout the whole surgery, he held my hand and coached me through the breathing we had practiced earlier, keeping me grounded as we waited for our baby's arrival.

Birth is free, emergency care is free, the only thing you have to pay for is private surgery (if you don't want to wait).

Then reality hits and I think, Oh, wait, I don't want major surgery — I don't like the risks involved and I certainly don't want to be knocked out for weeks at a time.

The strength to breathe, gasping through my anxious fears of surgery, and to lie down willingly, trembling on that operating table, waiting for the first cut that would bring my babies into the world.

Stevens outlined stark consequences for patients, with clear political consequences: without substantial extra funding next year, we would turn back years of progress that have seen waiting times for surgery fall from 18 months to 18 weeks.

Only 8 % of surveyed patients in the United States reported a wait time of four months or more for elective surgery, compared to 33 % in Canada and 41 % in the U.K. Germany scored the best, with only 6 % reporting a long wait for elective surgery.

Other studies showed that wait times for things from elective surgery to specialists to tests are much longer in non-US countries.

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

Central New York hospitals and doctors would like to hawk their services to Canadians weary of waiting months in their country for knee replacement surgeries, colonoscopies, cancer treatment and other medical procedures.

However, the study by the University of Sheffield shows no evidence the centres have shortened waiting times in GP surgeries, adding their results «do not support the use of walk - in centres for this purpose».

31 - day wait for second or subsequent treatment 31 - day wait — 97.6 % of people were treated within 31 days where the subsequent treatment was surgery --(97.7 % in Q2 2011 - 12) 31 - day wait — 99.8 % of people treated within 31 days where the subsequent treatment was an anti-cancer drug regimen --(99.8 % in Q2 2011 - 12) 31 - day wait — 98.6 % of people treated within 31 days where the subsequent treatment was a course of radiotherapy --(98.2 % in Q2 2011 - 12)

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.

Radiation therapy, along with surgery, hormone therapy, and active surveillance — known as watchful waiting — has been a mainstay of treatment for prostate cancer in the United States.

Less than a month later, Rubio sits with me in a St. Luke's waiting area, 23 pounds lighter and grateful for what surgery can already achieve.

«Opting for weight - loss surgery at lower BMIs may be best for patients» health: As more Americans turn to bariatric surgery for weight loss, study suggests they may not want to wait until their BMI is well past 40.»

Whether it is American senior citizens driving into Canada in order to buy cheap prescription drugs or Canadians coming to the U.S. for surgery in order to avoid long wait times, the relative merits of these two nations» health care systems are often cast in terms of anecdotes.

For women who carry a BRCA1 mutation, the authors estimate that delaying the surgery until age 40 raised the risk of ovarian cancer to 4 percent; ovarian cancer risk increased to 14.2 percent if a woman waited until age 50 to have the surgery.

«The results of surgery performed by members of the Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSSANZ) in this trial were excellent but we need to wait longer and get further results to understand the best way to use laparoscopic procedures, and to determine whether this is something suitable for all patients or considered with more caution in patients who are difficult to operate on.»

The team discovered that a certain subset of cartilage - making cells, known as chondrocytes, replicate themselves, make other bone cells and drive bone growth — findings that could lead to new treatments for children with facial deformities who normally have to wait until adulthood for corrective surgery.

The idea is, a patient would come in with a nasty broken bone — say, a shattered jaw — and instead of going through painful autograft surgeries or waiting for a custom scaffold to be manufactured, he or she could be x-rayed and a 3D - printed hyperelastic bone scaffold could be printed that same day.

Having waited months, sometimes years, for a donor and survived major surgery, transplant patients face an uphill battle to prevent their immune systems from rejecting their new organ.