Sentences with phrase «wakefulness without»
If repeated examinations yield no evidence of a sustained, reproducible, purposeful, or voluntary behavioral response to visual, auditory, tactile, or noxious stimuli, a diagnosis of a vegetative state — or «wakefulness without awareness» — is made.1 - 5 Some patients remain in a vegetative state permanently.
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Witness, for example, our treatment of those said to be in a «persistent vegetative state» (PVS, defined in 1972 as a condition of «wakefulness without awareness»).
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Possessed by maternal excitement, she now confronts wakefulness, weariness, and toil without an instant of hesitation or a word of complaint.
In addition, SnoozyPod is Bluetooth enabled, so caretakers can activate the functions on their phone from anywhere in the home, without encouraging wakefulness by entering their room.
These suggestions correlate to the average baby's windows of wakefulness, which is basically a fancy way of saying «the length of time you can expect your baby to stay awake between sleep times without completely melting down.
«Exploratory analyses of several secondary outcomes indicated that the sedation protocol was associated with a difference in patients» sedation experience; patients in the intervention group were able to be safely managed in a more awake and calm state while intubated, receiving fewer days of opioid exposure and fewer sedative classes without an increase in inadequate pain or sedation management or clinically significant iatrogenic [consequence of treatment] withdrawal compared with patients receiving usual care, but they experienced more days with reported pain and agitation, suggesting a complex relationship among wakefulness, pain, and agitation,» the authors write.
Without enough light penetrating our retina (especially blue light), the body's built - in systems that manage wakefulness and sleep start to shift.
When you accept this process, suggests Miller, you're better able to let periods of nighttime wakefulness arise and fall away without resistance.