Sentences with phrase «with blood transfusions»

Signs of anemia can be treated with blood transfusions, up to the level that «Packed Cell Volume» becomes normal.

Depending on the clinical signs, the patient may be treated with blood transfusions, medications for opportunistic infections,

Before blood types were discovered, doctors experimented with blood transfusions between humans and animals.

They're treated with medications to control blood pressure and prevent seizures, and sometimes with blood transfusions.

In 1991 Pope John Paul II stated that: «With the advent of organ transplantation, which began with blood transfusions, man has found his way to give of himself, of his blood and of his body, so that others may continue to live.

In both cases, the problem can be treated with a blood transfusion in utero.

The effect could even be passed from one animal to another with a blood transfusion, suggesting that the squeezed limb released some sort of beneficial chemical signal into the blood.

At Vanderbilt we had a lot of opportunities with blood transfusion and blood wastage and we made huge gains.

Not exact matches

«An all - electronic format with barcode scanning brings elements to increase patient safety and decrease errors because the patient and the unit of blood are positively identified as well as matched against the provider's transfusion order,» says nursing informaticist Meg Furukawa.

When a person plays with dynamite or refuses a blood transfusion on religious grounds, this process continues even today.

When Kekes compares this example with the eventuality that we might one day discover that blood transfusions are harmful, he evinces the materialist bias of his analysis.

The New York city based Watchtower sect is concerned foremost with liability lawsuits for wrongful death.They know that if they repeal the ban on * whole * blood transfusion, that it will open the door for legal examination of all the thousands who have died since 1945.

He had spent a lot of time in the hospital with internal bleeding (the common plight of hemophiliacs, whose blood is missing a key ingredient to cause clotting) He was given more than 50 transfusions.

With regards to blood transfusions, the topic on hand, Jehovah's Christian Witnesses believe it is a sin to eat or transfuse blood based on their understaning of Bible texts such as Gen. 9:3 - 5 and Acts 15:19,20, 28, 29.

Wait till any business affiliated with the Jehova witnesses start refusing access to blood transfusion to their employees (female and male).

The weeks and months that followed were filled with both heart and ENT surgeries, infections and desats, blood transfusions and plunging heart rates, intubation and extubation, thousands of prayers and some very scary moments.

Women run 5 to 7 times the risk of death with cesarean section compared with vaginal birth.14, 29 Complications during and after the surgery include surgical injury to the bladder, uterus and blood vessels (2 per 100), 30 hemorrhage (1 to 6 women per 100 require a blood transfusion), 30 anesthesia accidents, blood clots in the legs (6 to 20 per 1000), 30 pulmonary embolism (1 to 2 per 1000), 30 paralyzed bowel (10 to 20 per 100 mild cases, 1 in 100 severe), 30 and infection (up to 50 times morecommon).1 One in ten women report difficulties with normal activities two months after the birth, 23 and one in four report pain at the incision site as a major problem.9 One in fourteen still report incisional pain six months or more after delivery.9 Twice as many women require rehospitalization as women having normal vaginal birth.18 Especially with unplanned cesarean section, women are more likely to experience negative emotions, including lower self - esteem, a sense of failure, loss of control, and disappointment.

After finding out her iron dipped a little at 9 months (she was also 4 weeks early, 5.4 pounds and had enough blood loss at birth to require two blood transfusions) I've added ground beef paired with broccoli or strawberries for Vitamin C.

Analysis of national trends in maternal morbidities from 2005 - 08 show a statistically significant increase in rates of postpartum haemorrhage (PPH), pelvic and perineal trauma, and gestational diabetes.Over an 11 year period (1999 - 2009), the overall PPH rate increased from 1.5 % to 4.1 %, with a significant increase in the rate of blood transfusion co-diagnosed with atonic PPH.»

So unrestricted breastfeeding in the first hour after birth, from a well nourished mother, serves as an immediate transfusion to newborns to assist with proper blood clotting.

With twin to twin transfusion syndrome, one of the twins pumps the blood, not only for himself, but also for his twin.

Formula is very tricky because when my son was born they substituted my breast milk with formula, at that time we didn't know he had the disease, his bilirubin level sky rocked and then needed a blood transfusion.

While the cord is pulsating, placental transfusion is supplying the baby with oxygen, nutrients and an increased blood volume to support the transition to life outside the womb.

In rare cases, a baby with an HDN will need to be treated with a type of blood transfusion called an exchange transfusion.

This transfusion replaces some of the baby's blood that contains high bilirubin levels with donor blood containing normal levels.

Of the 117 with children, 7 % (8) had a blood transfusion in a previous pregnancy.

Planned out - of - hospital birth also had a statistically significant association with higher rates for 5 - minute Apgar scores of less than 7, neonatal seizures, neonatal ventilator support, maternal blood transfusion, and unassisted vaginal delivery but with lower rates of both admission to neonatal intensive care units and obstetrical interventions, including induction and augmentation of labor, operative vaginal delivery, cesarean delivery, and severe perineal lacerations.

if you have had surgery in the past, a blood transfusion, a termination of pregnacy (abortion), shared a toothbrush or sharps with an infected person, those are ways of contacting HIV besides sexual intercourse.

Certainly after a battlefield trauma or a car accident a ready transfusion of artificial blood that could theoretically work with any blood type and not require refrigeration would be a welcome medical tool.

Although most people only get transfusions once or twice in their lives (if at all), individuals with conditions like sickle - cell anemia require consistent blood transfusions of red cells.

The researchers also found black children were more likely to have anemia, vitamin D deficiency, endoscopic procedures, blood product transfusions and treatment with steroids and biologic agents compared to white children with Crohn's disease.

Also, researchers could carefully select which blood types to culture with each batch of stem cells, creating stockpiles of needed blood products for people with extremely rare blood types whose blood cell makeup makes it challenging to find good blood matches for transfusions because they would reject most other types of blood.

In the past, several small studies have shown that compared with general anesthesia, regional anesthesia reduces intraoperative blood loss and the need for blood transfusions.

They found that use of tranexamic acid was significantly associated with an up to 69 % reduction in the need for blood transfusions and was not associated with an increased risk of complications, including serious blood clots and acute kidney failure.

The nationally representative survey of more than 4,700 U.S. adults centered on public views about: gene editing that might give babies a lifetime with much reduced risk of serious disease, implantation of brain chips that potentially could give people a much improved ability to concentrate and process information, and transfusions of synthetic blood that might give people much greater speed, strength and stamina.

For example, 49 % of adults say transfusions with synthetic blood for much improved physical abilities would be «meddling with nature,» while a roughly equal share (48 %) say this idea is no different than other ways human have tried to better themselves.

NCCHD is the only hospital in the country that performs fetal surgery, particularly for cases with twin - to - twin transfusion syndrome, a rare condition in which the blood supply in the shared placenta is unequally distributed, leading to one twin lacking the necessary nutrients for normal growth and survival.

Six pairs of mice — with one mouse engineered to produce gobs of human A-beta and one normal — were surgically joined for a year, causing blood mingling that's far more extensive than that of a blood transfusion.

Three of eight people tested so far in the UK are now confirmed to have been infected with vCJD through blood transfusions, autopsies have revealed.

Such blood transfusions have not yet been systematically studied in humans for Ebola (although such transfusions have been used in limited circumstances including, reportedly, when U.S. physician Kent Brantly was infected with Ebola in Liberia and on others during an earlier outbreak elsewhere in 1995).

The recipient of the blood transfusion had received the blood in 1996 from a donor with no sign of vCJD.

Before gene therapy he needed monthly blood transfusions to provide him with beta - globin, a key component of the haemoglobin molecule that carries oxygen around the body.

The virus is spread by contact with infected blood, such as through blood transfusions, injection drug use or sexual contact.

Her doctors tried to prevent another stroke by giving her blood transfusions every three weeks to dilute her sickle cells with normal red blood cells.

«For a patient with insufficient platelets due to bleeding or an inherited disorder, physicians often have to resort to platelet transfusions, which can be difficult to obtain,» said Dr. Wilbur Lam, another of the paper's co-authors and a physician in the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and the Department of Pediatrics at the Emory University School of Medicine.

But the researchers believe the particles could also reduce the need for platelet transfusions in patients undergoing chemotherapy or bypass surgery, and in those with certain blood disorders.

There are currently 33 systems recognized by the International Society of Blood Transfusion, with monikers like Lutheran, Duffy, Hh / Bombay and Ok.

«I compare changes in the athlete's values to those I have found in our research that occur with EPO treatment and blood transfusion,» Ashenden says.

Researchers found that monthly blood transfusions reduced the recurrence of silent strokes and strokes by 58 percent in children with pre-existing silent strokes when compared to children who were not transfused.

Vanderbilt - led research, as part of an international, multicenter trial, found regular blood transfusion therapy significantly reduces the recurrence of silent strokes and strokes in children with sickle cell anemia who have had pre-existing silent strokes, according to study results released today in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).