What's the difference between alert and careful?

Alert


Definition:

  • (a.) Watchful; vigilant; active in vigilance.
  • (a.) Brisk; nimble; moving with celerity.
  • (n.) An alarm from a real or threatened attack; a sudden attack; also, a bugle sound to give warning.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There are several common clinical signs which should alert the physician to a possible diagnosis of SLE and which should condition him to look for specific clinical and laboratory findings.
  • (2) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
  • (3) In view of the high mortality every clinical deterioration of patients with cirrhosis should alert the physician of the presence of SBP.
  • (4) Moreover, it allows the clinician to be alert towards findings which could be missed when not carefully searched for and which may be useful to raise or strengthen the suspicion of this disease.
  • (5) The data support a hypothesis that medial thalamic structures have alerting functions in learning mechanisms.
  • (6) The correlation between the spike activity and the waves of surface ECoG was studied in the visual and motor cortex of alert non-immobilized rabbits.
  • (7) The specific angiotensin receptor antagonist, Sar1, Thr8AII (sarthran), was infused intracerebroventricularly in alert spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR), and Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) and Sprague-Dawley (SD) normotensive rat strains.
  • (8) Stimulation using implanted electrodes in conscious rats, within the hypothalamic and midbrain areas described above, elicited typical 'flight' and 'escape' behaviour: thus, the localized regions from which the visceral alerting response is elicited contain neurones or nerve fibres integrating the whole defence-alerting response in the rat, as in other species.
  • (9) These findings suggest that health professionals, particularly nurses, who work with families in their homes, must be alert and sensitive to cues and circumstances which could indicate suffering, and in so doing, take the necessary steps to ameliorate their situation.
  • (10) It is understood that counterterrorism police at Heathrow are urgently seeking a meeting with senior UKBA management over the missed alerts.
  • (11) South Korea was put on high alert a year ago amid fears that the North was about to provoke a clash in the contested waters of the Yellow Sea.
  • (12) This report alerts clinicians that, although helpful in some patients, clonazepam can cause behavioral disinhibition and worsening of symptoms in other patients.
  • (13) These indicators included temperature elevation, inability to be consoled, level of alertness, nuchal rigidity, bulging fontanel, decreased appetite, rash, referral, and febrile seizures.
  • (14) This brief outline of optical identification potentials alerts law enforcement agencies to the early developments in the field.
  • (15) Immediately after delivery the following should be checked for any possible abnormalities: 1) the patient's alertness, 2) blood pressure, 3) pulse, and 4) body temperature.
  • (16) The results better define the important behavioral differences existing between the two strains, Long Evans rats showing consistently a higher level of alertness and a better conditioned performance.
  • (17) This article is intended to alert practicing physicians to the extent of the problem and to familiarize them with the various forms of skin cancer.
  • (18) Albion rarely threatened, though Tim Howard was alert to Shane Long's first-time shot, but had several chances to punish Everton on the counterattack late on.
  • (19) Witnesses reported hearing a loud bang coming from the area, which is also close to the Belfast city centre's prime retail centre and the city's courts, hours after a security alert was declared after 9pm.
  • (20) It was thus found that the predictive efficacy of CASE was increased when it employed a combination of human and artificial intelligence, as exemplified by the CASE analysis of 'structural alerts.

Careful


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of care; anxious; solicitous.
  • (a.) Filling with care or solicitude; exposing to concern, anxiety, or trouble; painful.
  • (a.) Taking care; giving good heed; watchful; cautious; provident; not indifferent, heedless, or reckless; -- often followed by of, for, or the infinitive; as, careful of money; careful to do right.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The role of the family practitioner in antenatal care is discussed.
  • (2) Patients with normal echocardiogram and ECG on admission do not require intensive care monitoring.
  • (3) HSV I infection of the hand classically occurs in children with herpetic stomatitis and in health care workers infected during patient care delivery.
  • (4) A change in the pattern of care of children with IDDM, led to a pronounced decrease in hospital use by this patient group.
  • (5) Participants (n=165) entering a week-long outpatient education program completed a protocol measuring self-care patterns, glycosylated hemoglobin levels, and emotional well-being.
  • (6) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
  • (7) Handing Greater Manchester’s £6bn health and social care budget over to the city’s combined authority is the most exciting experiment in local government and the health service in decades – but the risks are huge.
  • (8) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
  • (9) Suggested is a carefully prepared system of cycling videocassettes, to effect the dissemination of current medical information from leading medical centers to medical and paramedical people in the "bush".
  • (10) As important providers of health care education, nurses need to be fully informed of the research findings relevant to effective interventions designed to motivate health-related behavior change.
  • (11) Community involvement is a key element of the Primary Health Care (PHC) approach, and thus an essential topic on a course for managers of Primary Health Care programmes.
  • (12) These findings raise questions regarding the efficacy of medical school curriculum in motivating career choices in primary care.
  • (13) Careful attention must be given to antibiotic choice as well as the dose and duration of therapy.
  • (14) However, used effectively, credit can help you to make the most of your money - so long as you are careful!
  • (15) If there is a will to use primary Care centres for effective preventive action in the population as a whole, motivation of the professionals involved and organisational changes will be necessary so as not to perpetuate the law of inverse care.
  • (16) This article reviews the care of the chest-injured patient during the intensive care unit phase of his or her recovery.
  • (17) Parents believed they should try to normalize their child's experiences, that interactions with health care professionals required negotiation and assertiveness, and that they needed some support person(s) outside of the family.
  • (18) When you have been out for a month you need to prepare properly before you come back.” Pellegrini will make his own assessment of Kompany’s fitness before deciding whether to play him in the Bournemouth game, which he is careful to stress may not be the foregone conclusion the league table might suggest.
  • (19) Midtrimester abortion by the dilatation and evacuation (D&E) method has generated controversy among health care providers; many authorities insist that this procedure should be performed only by a small group of experts.
  • (20) Our results underline the importance of patient-related factors in MVR, and indicate that care is needed in comparing the quality of MVR from different institutions with respect to mortality and morbidity.