Sentences with phrase «dead patients by»
A U.S. biotech company will attempt to resurrect 20 brain - dead patients by a combination of novel therapies involving brain stem cells.
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New York City emergency medicine specialist Stephen Wall has endorsed a program in which patients who suffer trauma or cardiac arrest are afforded some resuscitation efforts, but if these fail and the patient is pronounced dead (as determined by a remote authority), CPR will be continued — on the dead patient — until a relative or other surrogate can give consent for organs to be harvested.
Prof Kirby said improving survival rates on patients receiving chemotherapy, which can extend life expectancies by up to three years, meant it was a «big mistake to let him out on the premise that he would be dead within three months».
Question nine of the PHQ - 9 explores suicidality and asks patients if they have been bothered in the past two weeks by thoughts that they would be better off dead or hurting themselves.
Although the Harvard criteria were based on zero patients and no experiments were conducted either with humans or animals, they soon became the standard for declaring people dead in several states, and in 1981, the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) was sanctioned by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.
In another case, a 30 - year - old patient with severe head trauma was declared brain dead by two doctors.
The procedure, which involved attaching the nose, chin, cheeks, and lips of a 46 - year - old brain - dead woman, set off a firestorm of criticism that lingered even after the French surgeons declared in July 2006, in the medical journal The Lancet, that the graft was «successful with respect to appearance, sensitivity, and acceptance by the patient.»
Based on the acclaimed graphic novel and developed by Frank Darabont (The Mist, Shawshank Redemption) much in The Walking Dead would be familiar to both horror and sci - fi genre fans, right from the patient awaking from a coma to a post-apocalyptic future (28 Days Later..., Day of the Triffids) to a planet overrun by zombies.
A decent man encircled by history and dreams, by echoing churches and abandoned mills, by the comforts and feuds provided by lifelong friends and neighbors, Miles is also a patient, knowing guide to the rich, hardscrabble nature of Empire Falls: fathers and sons and daughters, living and dead, rich and poor alike.
The performance is inspired by a psychosis diagnosed in 1880 by French neurologist Jules Cotard, whose patient believed she was organless, dead, and, paradoxically, immortal.
Patient 11: In late July 2012, a 42 year old refugee claimant from Africa who had been beaten and left for dead in the street and who was suffering from chronic severe abdominal pain as a result was dropped by her physician once her IFH coverage was cancelled and she was unable to afford the fees.
Johnson & Johnson Settles First Three DePuy Hip Implant Lawsuits for $ 600,000, Boston Injury Lawyer Blog, August 25, 2012 Zimmer KnexGen and DePuy Knee Implants Linked to Patient Injuries, Boston Injury Lawyer Blog, August 6, 2012 30 Now Dead in Fungal Meningitis Outbreak Linked to Contaminated Steroid Shots Made by Framingham, Massachusetts Compounding Pharmacy, Boston Injury Lawyer Blog, November 5, 2012
Our executive officer had to remind the claims committee as we railed against claims by some licensees and their recidivist ways: «You folks protesting claim settlements are like the coroner who complains all his patients are dead.