How to Use critical care in a Sentence
critical care
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The two critical care paramedics asked to be added to the call and headed to the scene to help.
—Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Jan. 2024
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Amedy transferred out of the critical care unit and stood up briefly on Jan. 11.
—Jeff Seidel, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2024
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In reaction to staffing concerns, officials said the unit has been staffed around the clock by critical care physicians.
—Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
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In cases of severe sepsis, critical care treatments can last a month or longer.
—Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 2 June 2023
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Some required critical care in the hospital, while others did not.
—Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 20 Apr. 2023
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When Perry asked questions, as a critical care nurse and junior officer, no one wanted to hear it.
—Quil Lawrence, NPR, 3 Apr. 2024
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In the cases managed in a health care facility, 4% were admitted to a critical care unit.
—Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 21 Jan. 2024
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And finally, back to nature In the past decade, more than 800 orphaned, sick or injured manatees have been taken to critical care centers.
—Jason Gulley Catrin Einhorn, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
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The ensuing outage doesn’t appear to affect any of the systems that provide direct, critical care to patients.
—Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2024
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The lawsuit alleges that there is confusion among doctors over what qualifies as critical care.
—Caroline Linton, CBS News, 7 Mar. 2023
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Babies and critical care patients were among those who had to be moved after power went out in part of the hospital, including a building that housed neonatal intensive care.
—Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
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Bear developed similar symptoms in December, Diehl said, and was in critical care.
—Aria Bendix, NBC News, 18 Jan. 2024
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Severe cases can be life-threatening and require critical care.
—Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2023
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Austin was admitted to Walter Reed’s critical care unit for supportive care and close monitoring at around 2 p.m. Sunday.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 12 Feb. 2024
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Hundreds of people with severe blast injuries have come to the hospital, where fuel is expected to run out by Monday, said Dr. Mohammed Qandeel, a consultant at the critical care complex.
—TIME, 15 Oct. 2023
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At that initial you-can’t-argue-your-way-out-of-it-this-is-trauma individual level, the stress ate away at the well-being of first responders, critical care workers, and mental health professionals.
—Ana Marie Cox, The New Republic, 14 Sep. 2023
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The debt includes emergency department, hospital medicine, skilled nursing and urgent and critical care visits.
—Donovan J. Thomas, ajc, 31 Mar. 2023
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Austin's health: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was admitted to a critical care unit after being hospitalized for a bladder issue.
—Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 12 Feb. 2024
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Drained of funds, critical care facilities there subsequently shut down.
—Michael Kaplan, CBS News, 6 Dec. 2023
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Most people with drug or alcohol intoxication require neither a criminal response nor the level of critical care offered in an ED.
—Shannon Smith-Bernardin, STAT, 13 Dec. 2023
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Two hospitals have announced plans to build freestanding emergency departments in north Alabama – bringing a new type of critical care facility to the areas around Huntsville and Decatur.
—Amy Yurkanin | Ayurkanin@al.com, al, 9 Mar. 2023
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There are days, said Dr. Jess Mandel, chief of pulmonology, critical care and sleep medicine, when nearly half of the Hillcrest unit’s 13 beds are simultaneously occupied by patients suffering from fentanyl overdose.
—Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2023
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Off-label use includes treatment of critical care patients with sepsis or newborns with acute respiratory distress.
—Jenny Sweigard, Verywell Health, 16 Nov. 2023
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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is under critical care weeks after undergoing surgery for early prostate cancer.
—Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 12 Feb. 2024
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Food safety inspections are likely to cease, the Biden administration previously has warned, and some veterans could see delays or other disruptions to critical care services.
—Tony Romm, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2024
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This will provide critical capacity and fill a critical care gap for Californians.
—Hanna Kang, Orange County Register, 31 Jan. 2024
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Although many restrictive state laws allow abortions in extreme cases to save a pregnant person’s life, in practice, many people have been refused critical care during precarious situations.
—Sonel Cutler, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2023
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The facility provides overnight accommodations, free of charge, to families of children receiving critical care treatment at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.
—Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 24 Aug. 2023
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The charity offers critical care to patients—such as blood transfusions, the administration of anesthesia, and emergency operations—before flying them directly to specialist care.
—Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Feb. 2023
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The commission signaled its commitment to this practice Wednesday, awarding $1.4 million in grants to community health centers providing critical care to vulnerable communities recovering from delays in care brought by the pandemic.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2023
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