Sentence examples for levels of weakness from inspiring English sources

These levels of weakness are associated with longer ventilation and ICU stay [ 12].

Some patients develop critical illness neuropathies and myopathies that result in levels of weakness beyond that of bed rest alone [ 1– 8].

These caveats have led to contrasting data for diagnosing ICU-AW within the ICU, as well as to variability in interobserver agreement of the MRC-SS in ICU patients with differing levels of weakness [ 18, 19].

Although Wall Street had been expecting the second quarter to be weak, many investors have been caught off guard by the level of weakness and most companies' inability to predict when the environment will improve.

The Sept. 11 attacks added "another level of weakness" to already diminished expectations, said Michael Kowalski, the chief executive.

"We've seen that cash is not always easy to get, and there's a level of weakness that everyone's sort of feeling in the economy," Ms. Lindland said.

Myasthenic patients with oropharyngeal or respiratory muscle weakness should receive preoperative plasma exchange or intravenous immunoglobulin therapy to a minimal level of weakness to prevent postoperative complications.

Of these patients two (5%) presented a low and eight (21%) presented a clear level of weakness compared to the uninjured hand.

As a corollary, the level of weakness observed in our infected patients may represent the combined effects of chronic illness, ventilator-induced inactivity, and infection-induced diaphragm dysfunction.

These data therefore argue that even if all of the diaphragm weakness observed in our non-infected patients was a consequence of ventilator-induced inactivity, this level of weakness alone would not be expected to result in poor patient outcomes.

Where the patient's level of weakness permitted, motor performance was also assessed using the nine-hole peg test (Mathiowetz et al., 1985 b ), box and blocks test (Mathiowetz et al., 1985 a ) and timed 10 m walk (Wade, 1992).