Sentences with phrase «chance of survival at»

«1 Thus a patient who has a forty percent chance of survival at the outset, but whose chances of survival were reduced to ten percent by a medical error, can sue for medical malpractice.

This hefty anti-Tory voting block is now the Lib Dem's single best chance of survival at the general election.

Both teams are tied on the same points, and a win for either side will boost their chances of survival at the end of the campaign.

K - 250 is a reprogrammed imperial security guard, sinisterly black, bald, skeletal and pin - headed but an absolute wag — since his reprogramming «he tends to say whatever comes into his circuits», it's explained, which includes repeatedly giving pessimistic predictions of the chances of survival at the wrong time.

My vet could give no firm opinion on her chances of survival at that moment, despite doing everything he knew to do.

Imagine a patient who shows up at a doctor's office with a disease so deadly or so advanced that his chances of survival at the time of the first doctor's visit are already less than 50 percent.

Given that the patient was already likely to die the first time that the doctor saw him (the patient's chances of survival at the very beginning were less than 50 percent), the doctor's malpractice in failing to detect the disease or mistreating it could not be said to have caused the patient's death: the patient was going to die anyway.

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For a more current look at what happens when abortion is severely restricted, we looked to Brazil, where abortion is illegal except in cases of rape, when the mother's life is in danger, and in the rare instances of anencephaly, a severe fetal anomaly in which the fetus lacks parts of the brain, leaving the infant with virtually no chance of survival.

In fact, the concept was so novel, Bernard remembers how his peers laughed at the concept and barely gave Tripper Inc. and its vanilla and other spice products from Southeast Asia any chance of survival.

Arshavin will be hoping to re-ignite his career at the Madejski Stadium and owner Anton Zingarevich will look to the former Zenit man to provide the impetus his side needs to help boost their chances of securing Premier League survival.

That was a big win for them, but it does little for their survival chances as they are still well adrift at the foot of the table.

The news started over a month ago, with Paul Heckingbottom linked with a player he signed in January at Barnsley and didn't get to see play once, his short move north to Leeds meant McBurnie was left to play his debut under a caretaker, a debut which he scored in and he hasn't failed to find the net in many games since, bagging a host of goals to keep Barnsley's chances of survival up.

Last time out at home they got trounced by fellow strugglers Wigan and defeats such as those seriously dent the survival chances of a team.

Crystal Palace managed to get themselves off of the relegation zone for the first time in a long while by claiming a hard fought 1 - 0 victory over Middlesbrough at Selhurst Park last weekend and it goes without saying that the three points picked up on the day could prove to be vital to the Eagles» chances of survival.

Now the Latics go into» Survival Sunday» knowing they need maximum points from their visit to Stoke in order to enhance their chances of staying up, but even victory at the Brittania Stadium may not be enough to save their bacon.

The point of viability is the point at which there would be a chance for survival outside the womb, though far from 100 %, if circumstances led to your baby being born prematurely.

Of course I've only seen c sections done with the best consent possible at the time, and the intent was to give mom, baby, or both the best chance at survival intact.

Recent advances in freezing methods, such as vitrification, the method we have been using since 2003, have allowed for a better chance at survival of the frozen eggs, ultimately improving the odds for a pregnancy.

Babies born at 24 weeks have about a 40 percent chance of survival.

Thus, although a small infant fed breast milk through a tube will have a higher chance of healthy survival than one fed formula by tube, any infant who is fed directly at the breast or who is otherwise fed breast milk with warm body contact and affectionate care will have the best chance for success.

I knew that at that point our chances of survival was 70 %, its not great, but I could take a breath and know that we made it that far.

At 24 weeks into your pregnancy, your baby would be considered viable and with a chance of survival if they were born prematurely.

Both amendments will be aimed at easing the approval process for redevelopment of the Edgewater Hotel (in nonreporter speak, that means giving the project a better chance at survival).

Especially with improved chances of survival from severe combat trauma, plastic surgeons play a critical role in managing injuries sustained in modern warfare, suggests an experience at a combat hospital in Afghanistan described in the April issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery ®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).

These potential explanations included: entering harsh environments in a large family group offers stronger chances of survival than as an individual; there is in fact no relationship between the two at all; and that a third variable may be at play, such as female polyandry, when the mother has multiple partners.

If they affect people's chance of survival you would expect natural selection to have eliminated them, but instead they persist at high levels.

Dr Matthew Hobbs, Deputy Director of Research at Prostate Cancer UK said, «To greatly improve the survival chances of the 47,000 men diagnosed with prostate cancer each year, it's clear that we need to move away from the current one - size - fits - all approach to much more targeted treatment methods.

«Also, circadian disruption in cancer patients aggravates the prognosis of the disease and the chance of survival for these patients diminishes,» Elisabet Ortiz Tudela, a researcher at the University of Murcia, said.

People experiencing sudden cardiac arrest at exercise facilities have a higher chance of survival than at other indoor locations, likely due to early CPR and access to an automated external defibrillator (AED), among other factors, according to a study published online today in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

When his team looked at gene expression changes in the mice, then applied them to humans with early stage cancer, the results revealed a breakdown of which patients have a high or low chance of survival.

The study, based on work done by Doris Germain of Mt. Sinai Hospital, found that the combination of the drugs bortezomib and fulvestrant — versus fulvestrant alone — doubled the rate of survival at 12 months and reduced the chance of cancer progression overall.

Magnetic field signals are processed in 3D so that we can pinpoint accident victims in a matter of seconds and improve their chances of survival,» says Holger Schulz, a scientist at Fraunhofer IML.

Studies have shown that ovarian cancer patients have a better chance of survival if they are referred to a specialized gynaecological cancer unit, but this only happens for a minority of women in Europe and the US at present.

This is unusual because invasive species with greater genetic diversity often have a greater chance at survival — a more diverse gene pool means more variety in traits of individuals for natural selection to act upon and allow the species to survive and thrive in a new area.

The prognosis for metastatic cancer (also called stage IV cancer) is generally poor, so a technique that could detect these circulating tumor cells before they have a chance to form new colonies of tumors at distant sites could greatly increase a patient's survival odds.

Altruism towards people outside the family, on the other hand, might have arisen from the expectation that they would then return the favour at a later point — a relationship that would increase the chances of survival for both.

While r - strategists produce a high number of offspring with limited survival chances, offspring of K - strategists have much higher survival chances at the cost of limited reproductive potential.

Arturo Casadevall, chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and director of the Center for Immunological Sciences at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, who has been studying Cryptococcus for over 20 years, has compared the phenomenon with a card game where soil microbes are playing for survival, but by chance, a few hands confer «accidental virulence» on other hosts.

Research has shown that minorities are diagnosed at a more advanced stage of skin cancer and have lower chances of survival than Caucasians.

«Furthermore, if the intervention providing personal protection has killing capabilities such as walls sprayed, or nets treated with insecticides, the chances of mosquito survival to an age at which a previously - ingested parasite is infective, or a virus has reached a sufficient level of viremia to be transmissible, becomes yet slimmer because mosquitoes typically feed every 2 to 3 days, making at least one encounter with a protected person highly probable during the pathogen's incubation period.

Animals need to breed at the time of year when their progeny have the best chance of survival.

And a study released in March 2008 by researchers at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston showed that obese and overweight women also had lower breast cancer survival rates and a greater chance of more aggressive disease than average - weight or underweight women.

After being told by the scary men in white coats that her only real chance of long - term survival would be to have her arm amputated at the shoulder she decided to take matters into her own hands.

Your body interprets a severe reduction in calories as famine, so it lowers your metabolic rate, the rate at which you burn calories, to increase your chances of survival.

When she asked what her chances of survival were, they replied, «In the Philippines, at your stage... none.»

It all boils down to the right ratios: in the landmark British study (Mohr, PE; Br J Cancer 1996) researchers found that women with breast cancer whose progesterone level at the time of surgery was above the adequate level, had significantly improved chances of survival.

But, as with any marriage, there will be challenges and pitfalls; go into this union with a renewed sense of self, and your eyes wide open, and you'll give the relationship its best chance at survival.

For your relationship to have a healthy chance at survival, you must take steps to nurture the simple, loving aspects of your union.

Meanwhile, Shia LaBeouf is given the task of being both hilariously funny, a romantic heartthrob, and Earth's best chance at survival, and he fails to inspire confidence in any one of them.

Finally, there is a Lamar (Anthony Kelley), the star basketball player whose seeming lack of interest in literature leads to a friendship that may offer Bennett his only chance at survival.