Acute in a sentence

This would mean clinicians could manage residents' full continuum of care – from pre-acute to acute and now post-acute.

For a physician in the acute-treatment setting, acute alcohol intoxication can mimic other acute neurological disorders, or is frequently combined with other recreational drugs that complicate diagnosis and treatment.

Dr Tim Cooksley, president of the Society for Acute Medicine, said NHS acute care services continued to be under "immense strain" with clinicians expecting the coming months to be as "chaotic and challenging" as last winter.

The firm focuses on investing in acute care hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals, sub-acute facilities, medical office buildings, free-standing emergency departments, and childcare centers.

When I have a patient with multiple ER or acute care visits for possible heart disease, I often recommend a more definitive test than an EKG and blood testing, which is the usual acute care evaluation when looking for damage to the heart muscle.

ESC guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure 2008: The Task Force for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure 2008 of the European Society of Cardiology.

Integrating health services across the continuum of care that is public health, mental health, acute and post-acute care and community services will contribute to improved health outcomes and greater resiliency in times of disaster.

Enlargement of the prostate called BPH (benign prostatic hyperplasia), acute and chronic infections of the prostate which can be bacterial or non-bacterial (acute and chronic prostatitis).

The partners work together to determine the severity and magnitude of acute and chronic food insecurity, and acute malnutrition situations in a country, according to internationally-recognized standards.

For this reason, preemptive acute pain management may reduce both acute and chronic pain and is tailored to the surgery, the environment in which it is given (in-patient/out-patient) and the individual patient.

In adult rats, acute injections of corticosterone promote aggressive behavior and acute reduction of corticosterone decreases aggression; however, a chronic reduction of corticosterone levels can produce abnormally aggressive behavior.

In particular, acute lymphoblastic leukemia is 20 times more common and the megakaryoblastic form of acute myeloid leukemia is 500 times more common.

Panic attacks are of acute onset, and acute debilitation (generally severe) may be followed by a period of residually impaired psychological functioning.

Patients react differently to intense treatment in the acute phase (0–3 months post stroke), sub-acute phase (3–6 months post stroke), or chronic phase (6+ months post stroke).

The first division is between its acute and chronic forms: * Acute leukemia is characterized by a rapid increase in the number of immature blood cells.

The success of acute care, both clinically and economically, has meant that there is now little opportunity for meaningful observation of the symptomatology of the acute psychiatric patient.

A 5-10-minute halt at entry points will ensure smooth vehicular movement in the Himachal Pradesh capital reeling from acute traffic congestion during the peak tourist season.

AbbVie and Swiss drug giant Roche Holding are jointly developing venetoclax, which is sold under the brand names Venclexta and Venclyxto and approved for indications in chronic lymphocytic leukemia and acute myeloid leukemia.

About 200 yards beyond Balfadgen point, the vessel appeared to flip over and the mast lay in the water at an acute angle.

A classmate of our eldest daughter died in kindergarten from acute encephalopathy caused by a high fever from influenza.