Besides these therapies, chemotherapy is the most distressing procedure.
This study indicates that cardiac surgery is a distressing procedure, and patients undergoing cardiac surgery do not take the future for granted.
The findings show that cardiac surgery is a complex, multifaceted and distressing procedure for older people and could present unexpected challenges and suffering.
The various painful and distressing orthodontic procedures include separator placement, archwire insertion and activation, application of orthopedic forces, use of elastics, and debonding procedures [3].
Carers were most likely to resist managing aspects of a procedure distressing for the recipient.
Children held at an immigration detention centre face "extremely distressing" arrest and transportation procedures, and are subjected to prolonged and sometimes repeated periods of detention, according to a damning report by the Children's Commissioner.
Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) are two of the most frequent and distressing complications following surgical procedures, with as many as 80% of patients considered to be at risk.
The association between use of contrast fluid and high incremental salivary cortisol levels suggests that the insertion of the venous cannula prior to the MRI procedure was for many of the 12 children needing contrast a far more distressing event than the MRI procedure itself.
Comparatively speaking, women were observed to more frequently arrive at definite screening decisions, based on protecting personal health, or a delay because procedures were perceived too distressing.
Low levels of self-reported distress were reported for both procedures (MRI, 13.5% and XRM, 7.8%), although MRI was more distressing (P=0.005).
