Sentence examples for elevation of the head from inspiring English sources
Patients with elevated intracranial pressure were routinely treated with elevation of the head, sedation, and osmotherapy (mannitol and/or hypertonic saline).
So much more important than the National Audit Office's report on immigration, the suitability of Fiona Woolf to head the child abuse enquiry, or the elevation of the head of MigrationWatch to the Lords.
Of the entire cohort of 702 patients, the average degree of elevation of the head of the bed was 29.9° (range, 0°−90°) and 22 of 702 (3.1%) were observed to be on a kinetic bed.
These strategies include decreasing the frequency of ventilator circuit changes, and increasing the use of non-invasive ventilation, subglottic secretion drainage endotracheal tubes, kinetic bed therapy, small bowel feedings, and elevation of the head of the bed.
·POST-operatively: deep breathing exercises and mandatory elevation of the head of the bed.
Supportive treatment such as oxygenation and elevation of the head to 30° is usually sufficient in the management of these patients.
The extent and magnitude of levels of street noise and air pollutants in NYC has recently been assessed [ 21], but the methodology used did not measure personal exposures, but rather levels at 10 ft above street level, well above the elevation of the heads of pedestrians.
Conversely, the inferior fibres of the SSC resist, in the coronal plane, the elevation of the humeral head induced by the deltoid muscle [2].
During the prone position, head elevation of more than 30 degrees can hardly be reached with standard bed systems, as in the prone position, only a reverse Trendelenburg position (combined with minimal additional elevation of the bed head at the best) can be performed.
The dose of norepinephrine, level of PEEP, the PCV mode, and the angle of backrest elevation before the head of the bed was elevated can help identify patients at risk of hypotension (MAP <65 mmHg) when they are moved into the 45° position.
In 2006, we described two cases referred for evaluation of papilloedema in which OCT imaging demonstrated vitreopapillary traction with elevation of the optic nerve head and subsequent blurring of the disc margins with a subretinal hyporeflective space.
