"I had to help those families understand that the person they knew - the full, vital independent human - now lived only in the past and that I needed their input to understand what sort of future he or she would want: an easy death or to be strung between bags of fluids going in, others coming out, to persist despite being unable to struggle".
'Dot phrases' are electronic shorthand for longer phrases or structured data (i.e. ".med" can import the whole medicine list and ".vitals" the full vital signs).
Clinical parameters recorded included percentage of predicted full vital capacity (FVC) and percentage of predicted diffusing capacity of the lung for carbon monoxide (DLCO), pulmonary fibrosis (by HRCT: see below), digital ulcers, SRC and PH segregated into two well-defined groups; PAH and PH due to lung disease.
That failing makes readers, when left unsatisfied by bulky digests of information that seem inadequately synthesized and illuminated, long for a glimpse of the outtakes or the raw materials that they'd like to recompose, by means of their own imaginations and sympathies, into a fuller, more vital, and, in any case, more personal view.
Prestudy screening assessments, completed within the 3 weeks preceding treatment, included a full medical history, vital signs and physical measurements, haematological and blood chemistry tests, electrocardiogram, chest X-ray, and computed tomography (CT) scans.
Raw data could be transmitted (for example, three-lead ECG) or simply the heart rate; a full set of vital signs could be transmitted or simply a derived value such as an early warning score [ 13] or other index of patient severity of illness [ 14].
It was argued that stillbirth registration would allow more accurate calculations of rates of both fertility and infant mortality, and statistical comparisons with the fuller vital statistics of England and other nations.
"Volunteers will receive a full briefing plus a vital piece of equipment: a set of ear plugs".
70 88 Often research projects proceed rapidly to a full scale RCT, with vital, preparatory phases overlooked.
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