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In contrast, patient testimonials, case reports, and even expert opinion ( however some critics have argued that expert opinion " does not belong in the rankings of the quality of empirical evidence because it does not represent a form of empirical evidence " and continue that " expert opinion would seem to be a separate, complex type of knowledge that would not fit into hierarchies otherwise limited to empirical evidence alone.
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contrast and patient
This contrast is brought out in issues such as voluntary euthanasia-a pure consequentialist would see no moral difference between allowing a patient to die by, for example, withholding food ; switching off their life-support machine ; or actively killing them with harmful drugs.
In contrast, general anesthesia renders the patient unconscious and paralyzed during surgery.
In contrast to an AED in BLS, where the machine decides when and how to shock a patient, the ACLS team leader makes those decisions based on rhythms on the monitor and patient's vital signs.
In contrast, a sentence in which the subject has the role of patient or theme is called a passive sentence, and its verb is expressed in passive voice.
By contrast, the St. John manual advocated turning the head to the side, but it was not until the 1950 40th edition of the St John Manual that it was added " if breathing is noisy ( bubbling through secretions ), turn the patient into the three-quarters prone position ", which is very similar to a modern recovery position.
An injection of x-ray contrast medium is given to a patient via a needle or cannula into the vein, typically in the arm.
In contrast to a biopsy that merely samples a lesion, a larger excisional specimen called a resection may come to a pathologist, typically from a surgeon attempting to eradicate a known lesion from a patient.
Non-ionic contrast is significantly more expensive than ionic ( approximately three to five times the cost ), however, non-ionic contrast tends to be safer for the patient, causing fewer allergic reactions and uncomfortable side effects such as hot sensations or flushing.
In contrast, however, if the patient is truly hyperthyroid, and TBG levels are normal, the patient's endogenous hormone will saturate the TBG binding sites more, leaving less room for the labeled hormone, which allows greater binding to the resin.
In contrast to the psychoanalytic stance, in which the " patient " introjects the ( presumably more healthy ) interpretations of the analyst, in Gestalt therapy the client must " taste " his or her experience, and either accept or reject it, but not introject or " swallow whole ".
( b, c ) T1 weighted images of a different section of the same patient, before ( panel b ) and after ( panel c ) intravenous contrast injection, confirm inflammation ( large arrow ) at the enthesis and reveal bone erosion at tendon insertion ( short thin arrows ).
In order to extract the most information possible about the patient's condition, thin section ( 5mm ) transverse images are obtained through the entire abdomen and pelvis after the patient has been administered oral and intravascular contrast.
For example, an exogenous contrast agent in medical imaging refers to a liquid injected into the patient intravenously that enhances visibility of a pathology, such as a tumor.
EIT is useful for monitoring patient lungs because the air has a large conductivity contrast to the other tissues in the thorax.
This is in contrast to malingering, in which the patient wishes to obtain external gains such as disability payments or to avoid an unpleasant situation, such as military duty.
In contrast, a value investor must be able and willing to be patient for the rest of the market to recognize and correct whatever pricing issue created the momentary value.
In contrast to seeing primitive grandiosity or idealization as a representation of a defensive retreat from reality, Heinz Kohut regards narcissistic illusions within the analytic situation as representations of the patient ’ s attempt to establish crucial developmental opportunities.
In contrast with most other EMS agencies, many Hatzolah volunteers will remain at the hospital with the patient long after bringing them to the emergency department.
Barium enema radiograph showing multiple polyps ( mostly pedunculated ) and at least one large mass at the hepatic flexure coated with contrast in a patient with Peutz – Jeghers syndrome.
Planning CT scan with IV contrast in a patient with left cerebellopontine angle vestibular schwannoma
Her personality tends to be fairly consistent ; she is usually seen as a calm, kind, and patient woman, often in contrast to Santa himself, who can be prone to acting too exuberant.
Iodinated contrast is toxic to the kidneys and kidney function of the patient receiving a dose should be considered before the exam.
In contrast, the terms " top " and " bottom " refer to the active ( agent ) and passive ( patient ) roles respectively.
contrast and case
By contrast, in an inquisitiorial system, the fact that the defendant has confessed is merely one more fact that is entered into evidence, and a confession by the defendant does not remove the requirement that the prosecution present a full case.
Zealous by contrast was barely touched: Hood had situated Zealous outside the arc of most of the French ship's broadside and in any case Guerrier was not prepared for an engagement on both sides simultaneously, with its port guns blocked by stores.
In contrast, " subjectivist " statisticians deny the possibility of fully objective analysis for the general case.
In the case of Xhosa, there is a four-way contrast analogous to Indic in oral clicks, and similarly a two-way contrast among nasal clicks, but a three-way contrast among plosives and affricates ( breathy voiced, aspirated, and ejective ), and two-way contrasts among fricatives ( voiceless and breathy voiced ) and nasals ( voiced and breathy voiced ).
By contrast, in civil law jurisdictions ( the legal tradition that prevails in, or is combined with common law in, Europe and most non-Islamic, non-common law countries ), courts lack authority to act where there is no statute, and judicial precedent is given less interpretive weight ( which means that a judge deciding a given case has more freedom to interpret the text of a statute independently, and less predictably ), and scholarly literature is given more.
The contrast between civil law and common law legal systems has become increasingly blurred, with the growing importance of jurisprudence ( similar to case law but not binding ) in civil law countries, and the growing importance of statute law and codes in common law countries.
In contrast, though Oslo ( Norway ) and Stockholm ( Sweden ) are quite dominant in terms of speech standards, cities like Bergen, Gothenburg and the Malmö-Lund region are large and influential enough to create secondary regional norms, making the standard language more varied than is the case with Danish.
By contrast, nouns have no distinct nominative and objective forms, the two being merged into a single plain case.
While he is a confirmed compatibilist on free will, in " On Giving Libertarians What They Say They Want " – Chapter 15 of his 1978 book Brainstorms, Dennett articulated the case for a two-stage model of decision making in contrast to libertarian views.
By contrast, the EM far-field is composed of radiation that is free of the transmitter in the sense that ( unlike the case in an electrical transformer ) the transmitter requires the same power to send these changes in the fields out, whether the signal is immediately picked up, or not.
In contrast to Positivism, which held that statements are meaningless if they cannot be verified or falsified, Popper claimed that falsifiability is merely a special case of the more general notion of criticizability, even though he admitted that empirical refutation is one of the most effective methods by which theories can be criticized.
By contrast, a truth is contingent if it just happens to be the case, for instance, " more than half of the planet is covered by water ".
Some believe that neck sizing will permit a larger number of reloads with a given case in contrast to full size resizing, although this is controversial.
In contrast, in frames accelerating with respect to the fixed stars, an important case being frames rotating relative to the fixed stars, the laws of motion did not hold in their simplest form, but had to be supplemented by the addition of fictitious forces, for example, the Coriolis force and the centrifugal force.
In many common law jurisdictions ( e. g. the Republic of Ireland, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Australia, New Zealand ), an indictable offence is an offence which can only be tried on an indictment after a preliminary hearing to determine whether there is a prima facie case to answer or by a grand jury ( in contrast to a summary offence ).
Arbitral tribunals, by contrast, are constituted anew for each case.
In any case, there are two large caveats to contrast ratio as a measure of LCD performance.
Lie groups are smooth manifolds and, therefore, can be studied using differential calculus, in contrast with the case of more general topological groups.
In contrast, the tag in HTML is an example of presentational markup ; it is generally used to specify a particular characteristic of the text ( in this case, the use of an italic typeface ) without specifying the reason for that appearance.
In this case, the contrast appears largely to be conveyed with a difference in the voice onset time of the initial consonant as the configuration of the mouth is the same for and ; however, there is also a possible difference in duration, which visual analysis using high quality video supports.
By contrast, many ethical philosophers have tried to prove some of their claims about ethics by appealing to an analysis of the meaning of the term " good "; they held, that is, that " good " can be defined in terms of one or more natural properties which we already understand ( such as " pleasure ", in the case of hedonists ).
The study authors suggest physician evaluation via contrast enhanced CT scans for the presence of pulmonary emboli when caring for patients diagnosed with respiratory complications from a " severe " case of the H1N1 flu.
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