The risk of hypoventilation, and even life-threatening airway obstruction due to use of FOB is known.
Senate Democrats have a moral as well as a legal right to use the threat of systematic obstruction to force the new Administration to accord them a role in making judicial appointments that goes beyond the passive giving or withholding of consent..
Recently obstruction related to the use of polypropylene mesh for hernia repair has been reported.
The founders did require an oath of office that assumes such participation, but they did not outline steps to take should obstruction be used to block operation of the government.
I learned about this game, this way of using obstruction to attack the President politically, in one of the greatest books about modern politics, It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism by Norm Ornstein and Thomas Mann.
Predisposing factors to Bacteroides species bacteremia include malignant neoplasms, recent gastrointestinal or obstetric-gynecologic surgery, intestinal obstruction, and use of cytotoxic agents or corticosteroids (8 ).
In the presence of LV outflow tract obstruction, the use of digoxin, other inotropes, diuretics, and afterload reducing agents such as ACE-inhibitors may exacerbate the left ventricular outflow tract obstruction.
In contrast, critics point out that urine output is affected by volume status, intrinsic levels of antidiuretic hormone, presence of obstruction, and use of diuretics, and that urine volumes can only be accurately assessed in patients with a urinary catheter.
Patients with nasolacrimal duct obstruction, prior use of systemic or local antibiotics and/or steroids in the past week, current contact lens wearer and children who required general anesthesia were excluded from the study.
"This type of blanket, partisan obstruction used to be unheard-of," Mr. Reid said on the Senate floor.
