Sentence examples for acute index from inspiring English sources

Based on recent clinical studies suggesting that complete revascularization in the acute phase is beneficial, the European Society of Cardiology and American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association guidelines have been recently changed from class 3 discouragement to a class 2B recommendation concerning the treatment of the nonculprit lesions in the acute index procedure.

28 We used RPE responses to the 5 min submaximal run as an acute index of exercise tolerance.

On average, patients received 4.2 of the six cardiac medications (angiotensin converting inhibitors/angiotensin receptor blockers, anticoagulants, lipid lowering agents, beta blockers, aspirin, and thrombolytics) examined during their acute index hospitalization; 79.1% of patients received at least four of these effective cardiac medications.

Of the patients who received an ICD, 82 patients (58%) were in Group 1, 49 patients (34%) in Group 2, and 11patients (8%) in Group 3. Patients who were enrolled within 8 weeks after their acute index MI had relatively less ICD implantation rates (5.5%) than those 15% in patients who were enrolled but had a more remote MI event.

30 Melkas et al. showed that in an ischemic stroke cohort with ultra-long (12-year) follow-ups, acute index stroke attributable to cerebral small vessel disease was associated with worsened long-term survival and a higher risk of cardiac death than other stroke subtypes due to large vessel diseases.

Clinical measures of severity and response to therapy included improvement in percent predicted PEF after 60 min and a four-point severity score, similar to the Acute Asthma Index (AAI) designed and validated by Rodrigo and Rodrigo [33].

Physical function will be measured using the Acute Care Index of Function (ACIF) and the Physical Function ICU Test (PFIT).

Both aetiology and glucose content of the culture medium had a significant (P < 0.001) effect on the acute glycolytic index of GCs.

The primary outcome measures will be physical function tests on discharge from ICU (The Acute Care Index of Function and The Physical Function ICU Test).

Functional level will be measured using the Acute Care Index of Function (ACIF), which has good levels of inter-rater reliability 27 and construct validity 28 in acute neurological conditions, however, has not been examined specifically in the ICU population.

In addition to general effects of disease progression, there were significant deleterious effects of specific sites of metastatic disease on the Treatment Side Effects and the Acute Distress index scores, and on the trouble sleeping PCM item.