And there is concern, too, about whether what once were cornerstone American goals in Afghanistan — establishing reliable security forces, hobbling the insurgency, curbing endemic corruption, securing enduring rights for women and minorities — are now unrealistic given the looming deadline.
This major contribution to cardiovascular monitoring makes it possible to introduce titration of fluid administration as the cornerstone of goal-directed fluid treatment into clinical practice.
In summary, getting the preload right remains the cornerstone of goal-directed fluid therapy, and many of us believe it should be a minimum standard of care for the high-risk surgical patient.
The cornerstone of early goal directed therapy in severe sepsis and septic shock is aggressive volume resuscitation guided by serial central venous pressure and Sv02 or ScvO2 measurements [ 4, 15].
It was particularly disappointing to see human rights and non-discrimination, a cornerstone of the global goals, become a bargaining chip in the final hours.
Making the experience in custody similar to that of being in the community is the cornerstone of the rehabilitative goals at HMP Berwyn.
Pharmacologic treatment of hyperglycemia, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia has been shown to reduce CVD risk in people with diabetes, and this triad is now the cornerstone of optimal-care goals in the chronic disease management of type 2 diabetes (5).
Still, the amount of Canadian oil that the United States imports daily — 2.4 million barrels, roughly twice what it imports from Saudi Arabia — points up a cornerstone of Mr. Obama's goal to decrease dependence on oil from the unstable Middle East and unreliable sources like Venezuela.
Comparable to many countries in Europe, health care quality improvement and patient satisfaction are amongst the cornerstones of the reform goals.
Goal 16 is the cornerstone for achievement of all the other development goals.
