Moreover, the absence of effective, rapid point-of-care diagnostics leaves doctors to treat "empirically," relying on informed guesswork about which medicines a patient's infection might respond to — often in situations where a few hours' delay in commencing effective treatment can mean the difference between life and death.
A few hours delay in extubation may prolong the ICU stay by 1 day.
Even a few hours delay can be fatal, especially in the early weeks of a baby's life.
So while I do understand that a few hours of delay to your journey or your holiday can be frustrating, there's a broader picture here.
While some studies found that increased mortality associated with delays were present solely within the first few hours of presentation and then plateaued, 7 14 others had suggested the reverse a risk that was initially unchanged and increased only after a few hours of delay.
In addition, the time trajectories agree with experimental results in that the CEA response is not elicited until after a few hours of delay time (>2hrs).The switching-on kinetic of CEA activation is sigmoidal shape and completed within ∼1hr, presenting all-or-none switch-like behavior [ 13, 63].
In addition, a clear correlation with Vsw is observed with the geomagnetic pulsation power preceding the SW speed by a few hours; the time delay is shorter at TNB (6 to 9 h) than at GOES and AQU (9 to 12 h).
First, the arrival of our ambitious VFX shots was delayed by a few hours, which, in turn, delayed locking the edit and starting the color grade.
They lived for a few hours while the navy delayed and then bungled rescue attempts.
Despite the fact the race ended a few hours late after two delays to repair the track, there weren't many empty seats come the checkered flag.
