Sentence examples for prolonging the procedure from inspiring English sources

Ongoing bleeding may obscure the endoscopic field, prolonging the procedure and reducing safety and accuracy.

He watched babies twist and turn on the MRI table — a natural behavior, but one that makes scanning difficult and prolongs the procedure.

Such a low flow rate is difficult to achieve by manual manipulation and it prolongs the procedure substantially; therefore, we studied higher flow rates.

A biopsy prolongs the procedure by up to one extra minute.

In addition, such operations prolong the procedure and add to the hemorrhage and shock.

Harvesting of the graft can, however, cause persistent donor site morbidity (Silber et al. 2003, Sasso et al. 2005) and it prolongs the procedure.

Eye movements, fixation losses and blinks prolonged the procedure, while undilated pupils [ 38] and soft contact lenses [ 39] deteriorated the signal strength.

The stimulus to induce preconditioning, such as repeated temporary coronary occlusion or aortic cross-clamping, can be harmful itself and prolongs the procedure.

For example, the time taken to perform the block prolongs the procedure, and the pain scores might not take into account the pain experienced during injection of local anaesthetic, in itself a painful procedure.

However, after having undergone a learning curve for handling the instrument properly which at the beginning was time consuming the time measured in the present study did not relevantly prolong the procedure.

Cases with any 'significant adverse event' defined either by a major intraoperative complication such as vitreous loss or by a technical problem such as phacoemulsifier malfunction that prolonged the procedure by 10 min or more were excluded.