The purpose of this study is to gather a population of elderly patients with hip fractures who have been through surgery hospitalized in the ICU, and to establish the validity of the APACHE II score as a tool in determining the risk of death.
Screening has no advocate like a patient who has been through it all — surgery, radiation and chemotherapy, or slash, burn and poison, as some people call it — for a tumor that might have been easily cured if it had only been found sooner.
She has been through six heart surgeries in her life and has an implanted battery-powered defibrillator.
The timing of the intervention in relation to completion of cancer treatment was deemed appropriate: " I think there's a window there, while people are still interested in what they've been through, the surgery and all that, and to keep it rolling".
I've been through three surgeries since then.
Norman Scherzer, of Little Falls, N.J., who is coordinator of a GIST patients' Internet help group, said that his wife, Anita, had been through multiple surgeries but that after starting on Gleevec all her tumors had shrunk by three-quarters.
I had been through major surgeries as a kid, paid my own way through school, paid off my own student debt, been denied so many other opportunities to gain work experience, and on top of that walked to my interviews with the company at a pace much slower than the average person because a walker can only cut through snow and slush so fast.
The risk (odds ratio) for elderly patients who had been through hip fracture surgery was 1.4 (1.1–1.7) times greater for a score of APACHE II greater than 16.
Even though I have been through many hospitalizations, surgeries, and medication changes (including biologic and chemo infusions) there is no cure.
