life-saving treatment

collocation in English

meaningsoflife-savingandtreatment

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life-saving
adjective
uk
/ˈlaɪfˌseɪ.vɪŋ/us
/ˈlaɪfˌseɪ.vɪŋ/
done to prevent someone ...
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treatment
noun
uk
/ˈtriːt.mənt/us
/ˈtriːt.mənt/
the way you deal with or behave towards someone ...
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(Definition oflife-savingandtreatmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Nevertheless, the relative importance of these life-saving treatments (compared with alife-savingtreatmentthat restored patients to perfect health) was significantly different across scenarios.
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But neither would anyone think that it would be permissible for her to allow the child to die by denying him a simplelife-savingtreatment.
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This would be inconsistent with the view that competent patients have a right to refuselife-savingtreatment.
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In all three scenarios, we described alife-savingtreatmentthat did not restore perfect health but which left patients with paraplegia.
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Blood transfusion can be alife-savingtreatment, but no medical treatment is free from all risks.
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Our problem, in brief, is to ensure that the frontiers of medical science continue to advance and that opportunities forlife-savingtreatmentare further enlarged.
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Earlier this year, a doctor failed to givelife-savingtreatmentto a man with severe diabetes.
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Most important, it could harm the interests of patients by delaying necessary and evenlife-savingtreatment.
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The terms of reference do not mention the availability of equipment,life-savingtreatmentand the detailed understanding of the types of medical care available.
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The petition is staggering in so far as in 1988 we have to plead forlife-savingtreatmentfor children.
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What is the difference between performing one act—for example, giving a lethal injection—with a particular outcome and failing to perform another, perhapslife-savingtreatment, with an identical outcome?
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She has had to turn downlife-savingtreatment, her husband can't afford it now he's a security guard.
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They believe that any competent terminally-ill patient should have the right to choose death or refuselife-savingtreatment.
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In the early 20th century, tracheotomy became alife-savingtreatmentfor patients afflicted with paralytic poliomyelitis who required mechanical ventilation.
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This position extends to health care, and his view that those who choose no insurance should not receive potentiallylife-savingtreatment.
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This was permitted because his general capacity showed him capable of understanding the nature, purpose and effect of thelife-savingtreatment.
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