Cholestatis also can occur in patients who are getting all their nutrition through
intravenous feeding, because the gallbladder never receives the signal from the small intestine to release bile acids.
George's healthcare directive clearly stipulated that, if he were ever unable to make medical decisions for himself and had no hope of recovery, he wanted to die without any life-prolonging measures--not even fluids or
intravenous feeding. Medication to keep him out of pain was the only thing he wished.
As a result, they may require parenteral nutrition (
intravenous feeding) or enteral nutrition (tube feeding), medically necessary food products to supplement their diets, and medications.
Oral mucositis can be extremely painful and can have a devastating impact on patients, who often require longer hospitalization, higher doses of morphine, and
intravenous feeding to receive nutrition and maintain hydration.
The court found that force-feeding the alien was reasonable and did not offend the alien's First Amendment right of privacy, so long as a nasogastric tube or
intravenous feeding procedures were employed.
The patient was too ill for the operation but nurses were not told of the cancellation and failed to inform the medical staff that the
intravenous feeding in her arm had ceased.
New guidelines on the
intravenous feeding of sick premature babies were issued yesterday after a spate of deaths.
He defeated a man who desperately needed an
intravenous feeding of charisma.
"She will never receive medical aid," he writes, "because the volatile warfare in Sudan will prevent international aid agencies from bringing in the basic
intravenous feeding equipment that will prolong her son's life.
The conditions developed as a result of
intravenous feeding the boy had undergone because he was seriously dehydrated, Okada said.
19, dozens of riot police commanded by an army general swept through the encampment, clubbing protesters, tearing tents and carting Magana Jimenez and another striker to a nearby hospital for forced
intravenous feeding. Representatives from the Mexico City mayor's office called the raid humanitarian," claiming it enforced health regulations.
Intravenous feeding produced its side-effect of liver failure.