heroic measures

In medical practice, the undertaking of a procedure or therapy in an attempt to save or sustain the life of a patient with life-threatening injuries or illness.

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If by chance our Amphitryon changes his mind and receives only Porthos and myself, why, then, we must resort to heroic measures and each give two strokes instead of one.

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This theory, so far as I can see, solves the problems of introspective knowledge, without requiring heroic measures such as those proposed by Knight Dunlap, whose views we discussed in Lecture VI.

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It drives the frail flesh of weak women to deeds of heroic measure.

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These are hardly heroic measures -- especially for a Democrat-controlled legislative body.

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Last summer, police and prosecutors concluded that the man had killed 33 patients at a hospital in Oldenburg in northern Germany and that he had done so out of a desire to win approval by taking heroic measures trying to resuscitate them.

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Caring does not necessarily require heroic measures.

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Reliability can be adversely affected, but since the hook's position is determined by the slot engaging the firing pin stop, we've been stuck with a less than perfect position of the hook, or forced into heroic measures like welding up and re-cutting the slot.

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The editors and authors of this special issue have provided real and innovative ways towards cost-saving and quality-of-life measures around end-of-life care as opposed to the traditional, isolated, and heroic measures.