Sentence examples for drastic procedures from inspiring English sources
Surgeons call one of the more drastic procedures the "duodenal switch".
With any luck, the current breast implant scandal will make people think twice before undergoing such drastic procedures.
Though Cutler needed no drastic procedures during his newborn months in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, or N.I.C.U., at Minneapolis Children's Hospital, his parents were traumatized by the knowledge that his life hung daily in the balance, and by seeing how many other premature babies did not survive.
These less drastic procedures that promise shorter recovery times and fewer risks, have now filtered down to the boomers' babies.
Insurance companies paid for the costly and drastic procedure.
Mr. Ray joined Stich and was assigned at random to undergo a risky operation at Ohio State University Medical Center, which would include bypass surgery to improve blood flow to his heart muscle as well as a more drastic procedure: cutting open his heart to reshape it, get rid of some scar tissue and help it pump more efficiently.
This procedure may be used as an alternative to ankle arthrodesis which, for this type of deformity, is a more drastic procedure.
Researchers have found interstellar dust grains in some less-altered meteorites by a drastic procedure: dissolving a specimen until all that remains are the hardy mineral bits condensed in the atmospheres of stars long ago--silicon carbide, graphite, and diamond.
(Not to mention the high fatality rate that such a drastic procedure would have incurred, given the medical capabilities of the time).
Still, it is likely that the majority will not benefit from such a drastic procedure, partly because their cardiac abnormalities are not severe enough to engage in a surgical procedure and partly because in a fair amount of geriatric patients comorbidity is significant, giving rise to an unacceptably high per-operative risk.
It is the most drastic procedure and the one resulting in the most serious adverse health effects.
