Sentence examples for sham blocks from inspiring English sources
Ultrasound guided transversus abdominis plane versus sham blocks after caesarean section in an Ugandan village hospital: a prospective, randomised, double-blinded, single-centre study.
These two sham blocks did not differ (see Results section) and were averaged to provide a baseline.
To mitigate these effects as much as possible, we performed two sham blocks embedded within the experiment.
Fifty-seven patients undergoing primary total knee arthroplasty were randomized to receive femoral nerve blockade or a sham block.
S, S i = {Ash Sham block, Oude block, Gbeibe block, Abu Al Bukhoosh block, Bunduq block, Darquain block, Masjid-e-Suleiman block, Majnoon block, Rumaila block, Onshore Partitioned Zone block, Block 6 block, Malik block, Mukhaizna block}.
128 MEPs were obtained for each participant, one magnetic stimulus being applied for each item (the pulses delivered during the two sham-blocks did not elicit MEPs).
The experiment comprised active and sham TMS blocks that were intermingled across the experimental session and counterbalanced across participants.
But critics of the proposed settlement call it a sham, saying Block has effectively hired lawyers to sue it on the company's own -- extremely favorable -- terms.
Using functional brain imaging, Hsieh et al. demonstrated an increase in periaqueductal gray cerebral activation following painful stimulation [ 19], while Zyloney et al. later showed that acupuncture at verum – but not sham – points blocked periaqueductal gray activation [ 20].
Error and latency data were analyzed as a function of Treatment (2 levels; sham, MG) and Block (6 levels; each block = 10-day (2 week) series of test sessions), using repeated measures analyses of variance (ANOVA) for both order and trend, followed by paired t-tests for all other comparisons.
In the original published analysis, the GENEVA trials combined these patients into a single group and randomised them to dexamethasone or its sham as a block.
