This is because it isolates the specific effects of the treatment as opposed to the incidental effects caused by anesthesia, the incisional trauma, pre-and postoperative care, and the patient's perception of having had a regular operation.
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Last month Dr . Antonia Novello, New York health commissioner, ordered all six liver transplant centers in the state to review their programs to ensure there " are appropriate safeguards for both pre-and postoperative care ."
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"Free eye camps for cataract may appear a great service but it is always difficult to ensure the required sterility in the operation theater or during postoperative care, which leads to such complications, " said Rao.
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Dr . Saboor Soomro, responsible for the patients'postoperative care, said the donor Ahmed would be discharged within a week but the infant Sohaib would have to stay a little longer to " get a clean bill of health ."
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Potential operational benefits of POCT : more rapid decision making and triage, reduce operating times, reduce high-dependency, postoperative care time, reduce emergency room time, reduce number of outpatient clinic visits, reduce number of hospital beds required, ensure optimal use of professional time.
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Rhonda Boone, a school teacher, claims her husband had pre-existing medical conditions that should have disqualified him from becoming a donor, that his surgeons mishandled the procedure and postoperative care, and that he was not fully informed of the risks involved with the operation.
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Before Moore reported his findings, many decisions about postoperative care _ whether a patient needed more fluids, for example _ " were all seat-of-the-pants type decisions, " said Dr . Steven A . Rosenberg, chief of surgery at the National Cancer Institute, who trained under Moore in Boston.
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The doctor who performed the operation never checked up on Hurewitz afterward, and while a senior member of the surgical team may have checked twice without documenting the visits, the state says postoperative care was left primarily to doctors in training who did not monitor or evaluate the patient's condition appropriately.
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Although the procedure usually requires a team of specialists _ neurosurgeon, radiation oncologist and radiation physicist _ hospital stays are 70 percent to 90 percent shorter than with conventional surgery, there is no need for intensive postoperative care or long rehabilitation, and patients can get back to work in a few days.
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"Endermologie is not a cure-all, but it gets such good results; clients like the smooth way their skin looks, " said Judie Nixon, director of Rejuvena spa in Fort Worth, which recently formed an alliance with seven Fort Worth physicians to offer pre-and postoperative care for many of their services, including liposuction.
