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Animal Sedative Mixed With Fentanyl Brings Fresh Horror to U.S. Drug Zones

A veterinary tranquilizer is infiltrating street drugs, deepening addiction, baffling law enforcement and causing wounds that can result in amputation.

Brooke Peder changing the bandages on her arms where she injects xylazine, known as tranq. Hilary Swift for The New York Times

They are not there to put other people out of business, the way the steam locomotive treated the covered wagon. They are there to thicken the plot -and, in particular, to assert the provocative power of paint after a period in which paint has been under sedation.

One nurse told CNN that he had to take an elderly Covid-19 patient off a ventilator, knowing that it could be a death sentence. A paramedic recounted the day an entire unit's oxygen supply malfunctioned, threatening to suffocate intubated patients.

Breathing Tubes Fail to Save Many Older Patients - The New ...
www.nytimes.com › 2018/06/22 › health › breathin...
2018/06/22 - Dr. Ouchi, lead author of a new study of how older people fare after emergency room intubation, knew this would be no simple decision. ... But he began to realize that while intubation is indeed lifesaving, most older patients came to the E.R. with serious illnesses. ... A version of this article appears in print on June 26, 2018 , Section D, Page 5 of the New York edition with the headline: ...

Photo: Nancy Borowick held her father's hand while he lay sedated in his bed in a hospital in Greenwich, Conn. December 2013.

A photographer whose parents both faced cancer — and who both rallied to attend her wedding — photographed the two months since that wedding, the last two months of her father’s life.

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Nightmares After the I.C.U.
By JAN HOFFMAN
Patients who have prolonged stays, getting intubated and sedated, may experience severe hallucinations, putting them at risk of PTSD for years to come, studies show.



 Election Win by Ruling Party Signals Change in Japan

By MARTIN FACKLER

By securing control of both houses of parliament for up to three years, Sunday's win offers Prime Minister Shinzo Abe the chance to be the most transformative leader in a decade. 

此處  transformative用得不好.建議用TRANSFORMING

sedate 2

Pronunciation: /sɪˈdeɪt/

verb

[with object]

• calm (someone) or make them sleep by administering a sedative drug:she was heavily sedated

Origin:

1960s: back-formation from sedation

intubate

Pronunciation: /ˈɪntjʊbeɪt/

verb

[with object] Medicine

• insert a tube into (a person or a body part, especially the trachea for ventilation): it is possible to intubate in-patients undergoing oral surgery in hospital

to put a tube into a hollow organ or tube-shaped structure in the body in order to keep it open, remove liquid for testing, or give a drug:

Doctors had to intubate to help her breathe.

intubated patients

Derivatives

intubation

Pronunciation: /-ˈbeɪʃ(ə)n/

noun

Origin:

late 19th century: from in-² 'into' + Latin tuba 'tube' + -ate³

retaliate
v Definition: get even with someone
Antonyms: forgive, pardon, sympathize

transform

Pronunciation: /transˈfɔːm, trɑːns-, -nz-/

verb

[with object]

• 1make a marked change in the form, nature, or appearance of:lasers have transformed cardiac surgery he wanted to transform himself into a successful businessman
• [no object] undergo a marked change: a wry cynicism rapidly transforms into an overwhelming sense of sourness
• change the voltage of (an electric current).

• 2 Mathematics change (a mathematical entity) by transformation.

noun

Pronunciation: /ˈtransfɔːm, ˈtrɑːns-, -nz-/

Mathematics & Linguistics

• the product of a transformation.
• a rule for making a transformation.

Derivatives

transformable
adjective

transformative
adjective

Origin:

Middle English (as a verb): from Old French transformer or Latin transformare (see trans-, form)