Sentence examples for a lifesaving operation from inspiring English sources

At Taiz's other hospital, al-Thawra, two doctors stand in front of the doors of the operation room debating which of the two injured men lying inside has a better chance of survival and should therefore be granted a lifesaving operation using the precious remaining oxygen.

Thus Sam Garbarski's film in competition, "Irina Palm," about a British woman who turns to sex work in order to finance a lifesaving operation for her grandson, would have been yet another British naughty-granny comedy were it not for Marianne Faithfull's enigmatic, deadpan and remarkably funny lead performance.

People give valid consent in other desperate circumstances, for instance to a lifesaving operation, and acting out of a reasonable sense of moral obligation is a way of exercising one's freedom rather than a constraint upon it (we consider below unusual senses of obligation in the context of religious stranger donation).

All the rural midwives (n = 13) regarded symphysiotomy as a lifesaving operation appropriate for remote areas, and 23 of the 39 midwives (59%) thought that the procedure should be taught to midwives.

Doctors have been paid on a piecework basis since at least the Code of Hammurabi; in Babylon during the eighteenth century B.C., a surgeon got ten shekels for any lifesaving operation he performed (only two shekels if the patient was a slave).

Transplantation has become a lifesaving procedure for children with end-stage heart failure.

Tracheal intubation with Macintosh laryngoscope is taught to medical students as it is a lifesaving procedure.

As a result, lifesaving operations are adequately prioritized, risk of first responders are minimized, and requests of response resources are facilitated.

PELHAM - AFTER a lifesaving heart operation at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, 14-year-old Abid Ali Ali of Iraq had one complaint; he could feel a slight rushing in his temple.

They are waiting longer for their lifesaving operation.

If I lived there, I would have had this lifesaving operation years ago.