Sentences with phrase «with trauma patients»

The authors describe challenges in working therapeutically with trauma patients, especially patients with complex trauma, in private practice.

Dr. Paccione has more than 35 years of experience in supervisory and administrative positions as well as extensive experience with trauma patients and managing trauma - related service environments.

Back in the USA, I became a hospital chaplain from my own PTSD recovery, working in an ER with trauma patients in Chicago.

Stephen Porges work has been groundbreaking, greatly appreciated, especially with trauma patients., thank you

«Standardized policies needed for how and when police interact with trauma patients.»

Not exact matches

Patient experiences in the TV drama Grey's Anatomy are, unsurprisingly, portrayed inaccurately when compared with real - life trauma cases, according to a new study.

She specializes in working with distressed couples, abuse and trauma survivors, those with substance abuse problems and their partners, as well as cancer patients and their families.

After enduring the trauma of one (or perhaps several) reproductive traumas, having a known provider that a patient has connected with is important for birth.

Kelley also works with patients in longer term treatment to work through trauma, (including rape and sexual abuse) eating disorders, substance abuse, loss and phase of life issues.

The EMS folks did an amazing job of triaging the patients so that no one trauma center got clobbered with 100 patients.

And in this state, patients experience less fear and anxiety attached to their memories — enough to begin talking about and engaging with their trauma under the supervision of a therapist in a safe environment.

This new study of non-military, civilian trauma patients visiting the emergency department builds on recent research conducted by Dr. Samadani, supported through the Cohen Veterans Center, which found that the use of this novel eye - tracking technology could reveal edema, or swelling, in the brain as a potential biomarker for assessing brain function and monitoring recovery in people with head injuries.

Among all trauma patients, the severity of concussive symptoms correlated with severity of disconjugacy.

Nicolelis and colleagues believe with weekly training, the rehab patients re-engaged spinal cord nerves that survived the impact of the car crashes, falls and other trauma that paralyzed their lower limbs.

In this new study, researchers compared 64 healthy control subjects to 75 patients who had experienced trauma that brought them to the emergency department at Bellevue Hospital Center in New York City, with whom the NYU School of Medicine has an affiliation agreement.

In another case, a 30 - year - old patient with severe head trauma was declared brain dead by two doctors.

In addition to the rejuvenation of aging skin, Dr. Alster says, lasers can be utilized to treat patients with «a whole host of conditions,» including vascular birthmarks, hyperpigmentation, and scarring from acne, surgery or trauma.

In 2003 Pennebaker and statistician R. Sherlock Campbell, now at Yale University, used a statistical tool called latent semantic analysis (LSA) to study the diary entries of trauma patients from three earlier studies, looking for text characteristics that had changed in patients who were convalescing and met rarely with their physician.

Researchers analyzed charts for 2,100 patients who were 55 or older with head trauma who were transported to the hospital by EMS.

Injured patients with decreased travel times to the nearest trauma center had 16 % lower odds of death, while injured patients affected by a closure had 26 % higher odds of death.

The therapist may gradually expose the patient to images or sensations that remind him of the trauma (battle photos, loud noises), then help him deal with the fears that come up.

Clinically, the genetic and trauma - caused conditions are very similar, with bone formation in muscle leading to pain and restricted movement, according to the leader of the new study, Edward Hsiao, MD, PhD, an endocrinologist who cares for patients with rare and unusual bone diseases at the UCSF Metabolic Bone Clinic in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism.

This complicates study of FOP because the trauma associated with acquiring patient cells could stimulate the irregular bone growth.

The researchers point out that organised trauma care networks rely on correct and prompt identification of patients with serious injury and emergency transport direct to a trauma care centre rather than the local hospital.

«At the same time, as our population ages, we are seeing a significant rise in older patients with falls or other trauma,» Hsia said.

«These estimates of the benefits of sending patients to a trauma center are probably conservative, since we didn't include patients sent to non-trauma centers without neurosurgical capabilities,» Kaufman said, adding that the complementary results for the two age groups are consistent with an overall improvement in outcomes.

Subjects included 119 healthy volunteers and 26,683 patients with a variety of psychiatric conditions such as brain trauma, bipolar disorders, mood disorders, schizophrenia / psychotic disorders, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Moreover, the research shows, trauma patients of all races are 40 percent less likely to die — regardless of the severity of their injuries — if they are treated at hospitals with lower - than - expected mortality rates, the vast majority of which serve predominantly white patients.

«All patients of all races do better at the trauma centers treating white majority populations, so this research tells us we need to direct attention to hospitals with higher mortality rates to help them improve their outcomes, or we won't ever be able to turn this around.»

«Patients with head injuries do better when treated by trauma centers, even if it means bypassing other hospitals: Study shows a major opportunity to improve outcomes for the half of severe head injury patients who are brought to hospitals without trauma centersPatients with head injuries do better when treated by trauma centers, even if it means bypassing other hospitals: Study shows a major opportunity to improve outcomes for the half of severe head injury patients who are brought to hospitals without trauma centerspatients who are brought to hospitals without trauma centers.»

The FDA authorized marketing the Brain Trauma Indicator after examining data from a clinical study of nearly 2,000 blood samples from patients with suspected concussions.

The researchers found a continuum of trauma - related symptom severity across the groups, with highest scores in patients with DID, followed by patients with PTSD, and the lowest scores for healthy controls.

They then used the patient's relative distance from their home to the closest trauma center and non-trauma center with neurosurgery as a variable that effectively randomized where patients were treated.

Prior research has demonstrated that patients under 55 have significantly improved outcomes if treated in trauma centers, but these studies did not determine if older adults or patients with isolated head injuries had the same benefits.

They identified 62,198 patients with severe, isolated head injuries who had been taken either to a trauma center (56 percent) or to a non-trauma center capable of performing neurosurgery (44 percent).

Since the vermis has not been associated with dysfunction in non-traumatic anxiety disorders, this finding may indicate that different treatment targets are required for patients with anxiety after trauma, the researchers said.

«First, it gives us insight into how abnormalities in the brain occur after trauma, and second, it shows that treatments for non-trauma patients with neuropsychological symptoms may be applicable to some concussion patients.»

While unconscious race and social class biases were present in most trauma and acute - care clinicians surveyed about patient care management in a series of clinical vignettes, those biases were not associated with clinical decisions, according to a report published online by JAMA Surgery.

«Emergency blood transfusions for major trauma need to be more rapid, consistent: Only 2 percent of patients with life - threatening bleeding after serious injury receive optimal blood transfusion therapy in England and Wales, according to research.»

Researchers conducted a prospective observational study in elderly patients and adult patients receiving antiplatelet therapy who presented with mild head injury at two trauma hospitals in Vienna: the Trauma Hospital Meidling and the Donaustrauma hospitals in Vienna: the Trauma Hospital Meidling and the DonausTrauma Hospital Meidling and the Donauspital.

Findings of trauma - related intracranial hemorrhage (epidural, subdural, intracerebral, and subarachnoid bleeding) and the lack of such findings were compared with serum SB100 levels in each patient.

To develop their predictive model, Dr. Miller and colleagues evaluated 57,588 patients in the National Trauma Data Bank over age 50 who had blunt trauma with isolated brain iTrauma Data Bank over age 50 who had blunt trauma with isolated brain itrauma with isolated brain injury.

Co-author Dr. Bennet Omalu, who originally described CTE as depicted in the movie Concussion featuring Will Smith, added, «What our current work is doing in addition to other imaging modalities builds the foundation between identifying the negative effects of head trauma on the brain while the patient is still alive so that we can intervene with better treatments.»

The study, led by Darja Marolt, PhD, a NYSCF - Helmsley Investigator and Giuseppe Maria de Peppo, PhD, a NYSCF Research Fellow, and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, represents a major advance in personalized reconstructive treatments for patients with bone defects resulting from disease or trauma.

The team of clinical neuropsychologists at Saarland University have used this training programme on eleven stroke patients, nine patients with brain trauma injury and four hypoxia patients.

Yet, there are no professional guidelines in trauma medicine or nursing that standardize when and how police interact with injured patients.

The research explored how patients, who identified as Black or African American, perceived their interactions with law enforcement at a trauma center in Philadelphia.

Although about 20 % of stroke patients and up to 50 % of patients with brain trauma injuries suffer from these types of functional impairments, there is still no effective therapy.

In patients with more advanced dementias, an awareness of earlier trauma exposure can help clinicians differentiate between delayed PTSD and BPSD in patients suffering with emotional and behavioural disturbances.

«That's great for patients, who used to end up with incisions all over their body just to find out if they were injured,» says Patricia Marie Byers, a Ryder surgeon and chairwoman of the American College of Surgeons committee on trauma care for Florida.