Sentence examples for blockade agent from inspiring English sources

Critically ill patients, intubated and mechanically ventilated, sedated, were included in the absence of ocular pathology, pace-maker, neuromuscular blockade agent, TBI or spinal cord injury.

To avoid changes in alveolar ventilation, patients were ventilated in volume control mode and spontaneous respiratory movements were temporally suppressed with a neuromuscular blockade agent (0.1 mg/kg vecuronium bromide) if detected in airway pressure trace in the respiratory monitor.

Another immune checkpoint blockade agent is a human monoclonal anti-PD-1 antibody, called nivolumab [ 115].

Whilst more recent technology appraisal permits the use of abatacept, a T-cell co-stimulation blockade agent, and tocilizumab, an interleukin-6 receptor monoclonal antibody, as first-line biologic together with TNFi [ 65], TNFi, remains the predominant first-line bDMARD currently prescribed in the UK [ 66].

The use of neuromuscular blockade agents (NMBA), had been associated with significant residual post-operative paralysis and morbidity.

The expression patterns highlight the need to develop anti B7-H4 immunotherapies for those patients who aren't benefiting from today's generation of PD-1/PD-L1 targeted PD-1/PD-L1 targeted agents.

A sea change has occurred in the treatment options available for metastatic urothelial bladder cancer with the recent Food and Drug Administration approval of 5 immune checkpoint blockade agents for patients who have progressed on platinum-based chemotherapy or are not candidates for cisplatin.

mechanisms of neuromuscular blockade agents and in the development of the Duke Automated Monitoring Equipment (DAME).

Neuromuscular blockade agents were discouraged, except in the first 24 h of refractory hypoxia.

Combination therapies with different checkpoint blockade agents might improve tumor regression efficiency, and multiple combination therapies involving different checkpoint blockade agents are now in clinical trials (Mahoney et al., 2015).

Through his groundbreaking research, he helped to uncover the dangers of ultraviolet radiation in the operating room, and identify the physiologic mechanisms of neuromuscular blockade agents.