Equally devastating and life threatening is the occurrence of anemia, which is also being tackled via fortification techniques, particularly by supplementing flour with vitamins and minerals that help to ensure that mothers and children receive the proper amount of iron required to maintain their strength and health.
Eclampsia – a potentially life threatening condition – is the occurrence of a convulsion or fit during pregnancy in association with pre-eclampsia.
This suggests that the decreased T cell functions are correlated with a decreased longevity probably via the occurrence of life threatening diseases such as infections and cancer.
While the occurrence of life threatening cardiac arrhythmias usually subside with increasing core temperature [ 4], hypotension and low cardiac output may prevail during and after rewarming [ 5, 6].
However, minimally invasive extracorporeal and endourological treatments are associated with a non-negligible morbidity including occasional life-threatening occurrences.
Although haematomas and IRVI may heal spontaneously with conservative management, selective TAE (Figs. 7, 8, 9) is recommended as the established minimally invasive treatment of choice for life-threatening occurrences with persisting or massive bleeding, severe haematuria from communication to the pelvicalyceal system, or progressively deteriorating renal function.
In contrast even minor circadian beat to beat variations might precede the occurrence of potentially life threatening arrhythmias.
The incidence of airway obstruction resulting from retropharyngeal hematomas is low, but its occurrence can be life threatening [ 2, 4, 7].
Serious adverse events are defined as any medical occurrence that is life threatening, results in death, or persistent or significant disability, or any medical event, which might jeopardise the patient, or require intervention to prevent it [ 43].
13 The definition of SAE was broad, encompassing the regulatory definition of medical occurrences that were life threatening or led to death, hospitalisation, congenital anomalies or birth defects, or resulted in persistent or significant disability.
