Sentence examples for sustaining measures from inspiring English sources

However, death hastening practices more broadly can also be performed without the request of patients and through withdrawing life sustaining measures.

With these severe impairments, difficult decisions need to be made within several days of hospitalization regarding the aggressiveness of treatment including the use of life sustaining measures.

Although they received life sustaining measures similar to younger groups, they had higher adjusted mortality risk compared with the younger groups.

A multifaceted quality improvement intervention was associated with no improvement in quality of dying among ICU decedents, as well as no reduction in resource utilization prior to the withdrawal of life sustaining measures.

We recognize one plausible explanation for this finding may relate to a clinician perception of poor clinical outcome and/or general reluctance to pursue aggressive and/or prolonged life sustaining measures for AML patients[ 36].

If the patient has this identification on them and emergency personnel are called to the scene, it may prevent a person from having life sustaining measures done to them when they do not wish them done.

In addition, the E.C.B. may find it easier to sustain measures intended to support weaker banks and hold down borrowing costs for countries like Spain and Italy.

The cholera outbreak in Guinea and Sierra Leone that has killed 392 people and infected more than 25,000 others since February is slowing down, say aid groups calling for sustained measures to wipe out the disease.

"One of our fundamental business development principles has always been to grow in a sustained, measured way and to reinvest profits," said Stefan Knottnerus-Meyer, legal counsel for the German company.

Therefore, good quality intervention studies are needed to provide more generalizable data and improve our understanding on planning, implementing and sustaining effective measures for controlling work-related musculoskeletal disorders.

Unlike other life-sustaining measures, like feeding and breathing tubes, which afford families and physicians a bigger window of time to make decisions, CPR is an emergency procedure.