| life-sustaining intervention |
Any method, medicine, or device used to prolong life. Whether, when, and how to use life-sustaining treatments are difficult topics that require careful consideration by patients, their surrogates, and health care pr
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| life-sustaining therapy |
Therapy of a critically ill patient that, if discontinued, would cause the patient to die. SEE: life support.
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| lifestyle redesign |
A comprehensive customized program of community-based occupational therapy, intended to improve daily work, recreation, and health practices as well as the social interactions of independently living people, esp. older adults.
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| lift sheet |
Sheet folded under a patient over the bottom sheet to assist with moving the patient up in bed.
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| life c. |
the successive events in the life history of an organism, such as the entire life of a protozoan blood parasite, including the endogenous and exogenous cycles.
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