Sentence examples for secondary collapse from inspiring English sources

"They're playing a giant game of pick-up sticks, so we have to plan out what thing gets moved next to avoid a secondary collapse," Mr. Sekins said.

Because of the danger of a secondary collapse, "It was one of the most complicated engineering plans I've worked on," Mr. Lynch said.

Likewise, steel members from one of the towers were hurled westward like spears and lodged in one corner of the American Express tower, knocking out a structural column along three floors but producing no secondary collapse.

Lozano said authorities do not believe anybody else might be trapped in the debris but they are continuing to search and using special equipment to monitor movement from anybody who might be trapped and movement that could indicate if a secondary collapse might happen.

The message by the state to avoid the area to help ease congestion, and the news images of stalled traffic and twisted steel, have created a secondary collapse, business and political leaders here said, in a community that was poised this year to finally break through, back to prerecession health.

Both implants yielded promising results with extra-articular proximal tibial fractures and provided rigid fixation that prevented secondary fracture collapse.

Both implants have shown promising results in extra-articular proximal tibial fractures, and provide rigid fixation that prevents secondary fracture collapse.

Most commonly, though, the mechanism of injury combines direct and indirect patterns, i.e., culmination of a direct blow, quadriceps contraction, and secondary joint collapse [1].

One of the most life-threatening consequence of BAOS is secondary laryngeal collapse [ 13, 50, 51] arising from the high negative pressure generated on inspiration.

Allografts are commonly the first option with similar osteoconductivity and osteoinductivity as compared to autologous grafts [ 29], but they carry the risk of transmitting infectious diseases [ 30] and may incite an immunological response [ 31, 32] leading to impaired graft incorporation [ 33, 34] and secondary graft collapse [ 35].

Maintaining spontaneous respiration is effective in preventing airway collapse secondary to decreased muscle tone [12].