Sentences with phrase «as oxygen deprivation»

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There are risks to delivering a full term breech baby, Including a prolapsed umbilical cord, oxygen deprivation, the baby's head getting stuck since the bottom is softer and may not dilate the cervix as much as it should, as well as possible injury to the baby's brain and skull.

We were warned that he might suffer from some learning or behavioral issues as he gets older due to his early oxygen deprivation.

In the hospital, though, Jones and Kau learned that oxygen deprivation had left him brain dead, and so, as they held his hand, they let the doctors pull the plug.

Necrosis is virtually the opposite: The cell isn't trying to die, but factors such as blood loss or oxygen deprivation make it swell and explode.

As a first step toward finding out, he subjected sleeping rats to bouts of hypoxia, or partial oxygen deprivation, that mimicked apnea episodes.

It was as if the heart muscle had been trained to withstand oxygen deprivation.

Other risk factors for diabetes included AHI during rapid eye movement sleep and measures of the physiologic consequences of OSA, including oxygen desaturation, sleep deprivation and activation of the sympathetic nervous system, as indicated by a higher mean heart rate during sleep.

If a patient escapes outright brain death, some improvement can be expected, especially among those who survive trauma rather than oxygen - deprivation injuries, such as a stroke or heart attack.

2) During oxygen deprivation, sleep deprivation or exhaustion, the rational cortical control over emotions shuts down, as in the fight - or - flight response, enabling inner voices and imaginary companions to arise.

In 1963, Hruban and colleagues showed that damaged structures within a cell were sequestered and degraded, and that this was a normal and beneficial response to cellular injuries such as starvation or oxygen deprivation.

So while it is known that the immature brain is especially vulnerable to damage from inflammation as well as from oxygen or blood deprivation, and an altered BBB has been linked to cerebral palsy and to complications from traumatic brain injury in children, research to date on these questions has been hampered.

It should improve cognitive performance under stress (such as electrical shock or oxygen deprivation)

Exhausted from battling gravity, intrinsic cervical extensor muscles such as semispinalis, longissimus, the suboccipitals and multifidus become toxic from oxygen deprivation.

Biddy's limited cognitive capacities spring from oxygen deprivation during birth as well as lifelong deprivation of nurturing.

The condition is generally caused by damage to the brain, but the injury may be the result of any number of things such as trauma, oxygen deprivation, infection, stroke, chemical imbalance in the body, or drug abuse.

The Humane Society of the U.S. says air travel can be risky for pets and especially dangerous for brachycephalic breeds — such as pugs or bulldogs, whose short nasal passages make them vulnerable to oxygen deprivation and heat stroke.

«Survive It» is SSX's newest mode, one that pits various environmental hazards (such as avalanches, zero visibility, oxygen deprivation and more) against the player in their quest to make it down to the bottom alive.

The infant's heart rate should also be carefully monitored, as this is another key indicator of oxygen deprivation.

If the delay in performing an indicated C - section results in injury or death to the fetus as a result of oxygen deprivation from umbilical cord or placenta complications, for example, the physician responsible for the delay may be found to have been negligent and therefore liable for the fetus's resultant injury or death.

Additional examples include failing to refer a woman with a high risk pregnancy to a specialist, failing to take appropriate steps to avoid premature delivery, such as performing a cerclage, or failure to act appropriately upon signs of oxygen deprivation to the fetus.

Cerebral palsy can be triggered by maternal infections that affect the fetus prior to birth, it can result due to oxygen deprivation during birth, or as a result of a stroke or infection in a young infant.