Proximal aortic dissections are life-threatening conditions that require immediate surgical intervention to avert an untreated mortality rate that approaches 50% at 48 hours.
For established cases, there is often sufficient intra-individual consistency in the temporal sequence of the symptoms to allow the initiation of personalized interventions to avert a potential relapse (Jackson et al. 2003; Morriss et al. 2007; Perry et al. 1999; Scott 2011).
In May 1954, Smith traveled to Europe in an attempt to convince the British to participate in an intervention to avert French defeat in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu.
I'm a believer in humanitarian intervention to avert genocide or mass atrocities — when the stars align, as I believe they did in Libya — so maybe I'm deluding myself to justify our bombing campaign.
But if we are broadly retreating from the principle of humanitarian intervention to avert mass atrocities because of compassion fatigue in a tumultuous and ungrateful world, then we're landing on the wrong side of history, and some day we will look back in shame.
Consider just a few recent news items: Americans are balking at extending unemployment benefits, and even disaster relief was in doubt for a time last week in another of Washington's budget skirmishes; Europeans are cutting payments to pensioners; and "there's no mood for intervention" to avert famine in Somalia, according to one diplomat.
For example, semiannual recapture of California condors for health checkups indicated the need of clinical intervention to avert morbidity and mortality in about 20% of birds [ 53].
10, 20, 21 In fact, some suggest that the 500-ml definition of PPH should be considered an alert level, and that PPH may be better defined as the volume of blood loss requiring intervention to avert serious sequellae.
There was some mutual goading and then a charge that required the intervention of police and stewards to avert a mass confrontation.
Despite an established evidence base of simple, affordable, and low-cost interventions to avert neonatal deaths, global progress in reducing neonatal mortality has stagnated in recent years.
