Sentences with phrase «without brain damage»

Most dogs go through a whole life having seizures without any brain damage.

Separately, Japanese researchers report an 8.4 percent rate of survival without brain damage in cardiac arrest patients treated manually by bystanders from 2005 through 2012.

I suspect the * important * long term effect is that the infant will survive without brain damage.

If she'd gone to a CNM or OB and had induction in the hospital somewhere around 41 weeks, she'd probably have had a less comfortable labor and delivery, not felt that her care provider was her BFF — and had a baby without brain damage.

It is totally possible to attend hundreds of births without any brain damage or death occurring.

Not exact matches

These suggested changes will either be rejected by those in the boxing community (boxing without head shots) or will fail to reduce the potential for devastating harm (head guards have been shown to be generally ineffective in protecting from brain damage).

The problem with jaundice is that if you let bilirubin levels get too high without managing them, the baby can get severe, irreversible brain damage from a condition known as kernicterus.

Most people do admit that there are negligent midwives, there are women having homebirths that should have been risked out and there are babies that are being delivered to low risk mums that have died or been brain damaged without expert medical care in a hospital.

Without treatment, preeclampsia can cause kidney, liver and brain damage.

Folic acid is a crucial building block that your baby needs to develop a healthy nervous system, without it the baby could be born with brain damage.

Without this, a very small number of babies born each year would suffer brain damage or die as a result of VKDB.

Do NOT decline this shot as without vitamin K, your baby could be at risk for sudden and serious bleeding in the brain or intestines which could be life threatening or lead to permanent brain damage and even death.

During childbirth, the flexibility of the sutures allows the bones to overlap so the baby's head can pass through the birth canal without pressing on and damaging their brain.

Without a suspicion of child abuse and any resulting intervention with the parents or caregivers, these children may be shaken again, worsening any brain injury or damage.

Under this induced deep hypothermia, surgeons are able to briefly stop the heart while performing procedures on the heart or large vessels close to the heart without increasing the risk of permanent brain damage.

In fact, the authors report in Science this week that damage to that region is 136 times more likely to result in a «disruption of smoking addiction» — defined as the ability to quit easily without relapse — than injury to other parts of the brain.

However, CT scans can only detect bleeding in the brain, not damage to brain cells, which can happen without bleeding.

A few microscopic techniques can focus light deep into the intact brains of dead animals to study its structure without damaging the axons, but much of this light is scattered away by the fatty lipid membranes that surround individual cells, making the technique less than perfect.

Would all this carefully targeted weaponry that destroys cancer cells without inflicting collateral damage on normal tissue work on cancers outside the brain?

Some people who are blind because of brain damage have «blindsight»: an extraordinary ability to react to emotions on faces and even navigate around obstacles without knowing they can see anything

Because the device is five to ten times thinner than the smallest commercially available microendoscopes, it can be pushed deeper into the brain tissue without causing significant damage.

Using an in vitro human blood brain barrier model, the researchers demonstrated that radiolabeled mAb2556 could cross the blood brain barrier and kill HIV - infected cells without any overt damage to the barrier itself.

A TIA is temporary and often lasts less than five minutes, without causing permanent brain damage.

In December scientists reported discovering an enzyme that preserves memories; blocking its action could, in principle, delete memories without damaging other parts of the brain.

A few minutes without oxygen may not do too much damage to our muscles but can irreparably harm the brain.

Down the road, such findings could help doctors who desperately want to help patients without rolling the dice on something as serious haloperidol - induced permanent brain damage.

Different brain structures seem to support different kinds of learning and memory; brain damage can lead to the loss of one type without disturbing the others.

Microbubbles can help temporarily open the blood - brain barrier without incision or radiation, but if these bubbles destabilize and collapse, they can damage the critical vasculature in the brain.

They could thus modulate the activity of healthy brains without causing any lasting damage.

CPR essentially consists of a pattern of chest compressions and rescue breaths (i.e. artificial blood circulation and lung ventilation) and is intended to maintain a trickle of oxygenated blood to the brain and the heart and thereby extend the otherwise brief window of opportunity for successfully restarting the heart without permanent brain damage.

Given the delicacy of the organ — a living brain has the consistency of custard — it is amazing that we manage to get to the end of each day without suffering severe damage.

The device was used to insert electrodes that record brain activity in mice, seemingly without causing any damage, the team told an IEEE workshop in San Diego in November.

This article appeared in print under the headline «Tiny wires monitor brain without damaging it»

Perhaps that would mean a drug for people who carry the ApoE4 gene, one that would mimic the effects of a parasite without incurring the damage of an infection — a kind of muzzle for the brain's immune system that would keep cells like the astrocytes from attacking healthy neurons.

In their search for novel, tumor - specific therapies that could target multiple brain metastases without damaging adjacent tissues, the research team first developed a mouse model that more closely mimics what is seen in patients.

«Compared to conventional neural probes, the much - reduced dimensions of our NET - e probes allow us to implant the devices at previously unattainable high densities without damage to brain tissue,» Wei tells nanotechweb.org.

Our findings suggest that repeated SUS is useful for removing Aβ in the mouse brain without causing overt damage, and should be explored further as a noninvasive method with therapeutic potential in AD.

Animals that were also given a plasma kallikrein inhibitor, and animals that were genetically modified to produce lower amounts of the protein, showed significantly less bleeding, brain swelling and damaged brain areas than control animals without plasma kallikrein blockade.

Memory function was fully restored in 75 percent of the mice without damaging brain tissue.

They developed a method that concussed the mice — without severely damaging their brains.

Without progranulin, the microglia are unrestricted — and induce prolonged and excessive inflammation that leads to neuron damage — and can contribute to the vast array of symptoms that afflict sufferers FTD and other fatal forms of brain disease.

A new study of brain scans of 45 Brazilian babies suggests a worrying possibility, according to the New York Times: «Because some of the damage was seen in brain areas that continue to develop after birth, it may be that babies born without obvious impairment will experience problems as they grow.»

Without anthocyanin, your brain cells will become susceptible to damage.

Naturally, the longer your brain goes without oxygen, the greater your risk of lasting brain damage.

A diet high in sugar and also high glucose / fructose syrup is damaging to our brains and without any doubt can contribute to AD.

She developed an algorithm that scrubbed Bucky's trigger words right out of his brain without damaging his personality.

Well, it must also be said that sometimes, the tongue is quicker than the brain, resulting in a potentially damaging situation in terms of relationships, or perhaps the severance of friendships because of a word or phrase loosed without thinking prior.

Without treatment, Leptospirosis can lead to kidney damage, meningitis (the inflammation of the membrane around the brain and spinal cord), liver failure, respiratory distress, and even death.

The DHA fatty acids in Omega 3 are needed to build new and replace damaged brain cells, and without EPA fatty acids, the brain does not function properly.

He went without oxygen for a long time before intubation, and the doctors did not hold out much hope of survival, and if he did survive, they thought there would be brain damage.