For months, a simple generic drug has been saving lives on America's battlefields by slowing the bleeding of even gravely wounded soldiers.
We read: "What is left of her now is pure biology: a heart that beats and beats, a lung that inflates, an anesthetized brain incapable of dreaming, while the hair goes on growing, slowly, beneath the cap". The biological permeates "Seeing Red," as if Lina, her vision obscured by the bleeding veins of her retina, is forced to see everything in terms of biological function.
By the end, in a tableau reminiscent of Killing for Company, Brian Masters's evocation of the Dennis Nils en murders, the place is dominated by the bleeding, life-size corpses of the Chapman brothers' sculpture Great Deeds Against the Dead.
These include the prevention of rebleeding by obliterating the bleeding source, prevention of a phenomenon known as vasospasm, and prevention and treatment of complications.
During their clinical practice, pediatricians will be consulted by parents because of the bleeding symptoms of their children.
In the brain, the histopathologic changes were characterized by local bleeding of the meninges, chronic meningitis, and lymphocyte infiltration around the small blood vessels of the brain cortex.
Although bronchoscopy was performed by an experienced physician, the technical conditions of the procedure were precarious, characterized by abundant bleeding of the respiratory tract and a rapid drop of arterial oxygen saturation, all factors that precluded diagnostic confirmation.
This problem may be avoided easily by rapid bleeding of the freshly caught animal and thorough washing of the carcass with seawater.
To people haunted by images of the bleeding Christ, gripped by a terror of Hell, and obsessed with escaping the purgatorial fires of the afterlife, Lucretius offered a vision of divine indifference.
Obscure gastrointestinal bleeding (OGIB) is defined by the American Gastroenterological Association as bleeding of unknown cause after upper or lower endoscopy [ 1].
