(1) The major features in the initial assessment which were associated with persistent disability were the time taken to become bedbound, requirement for ventilation, age greater than 40 years, and small or absent compound abductor pollicis brevis muscle action potentials elicited by stimulation of the median nerve at the wrist.
(2) Severe symmetric action and postural tremor with a myoclonic component developed, with minimal rest tremor, severe dysarthria and dysphagia, small-stepped and slightly ataxic gait progressing to a bedbound state, and severe widespread dystonic posturing.
(3) Most chillingly, Walsh's 2000 play, Bedbound, depicted a young woman who has polio living hugger-mugger with her flamboyant father, in a space little bigger than a double bed.
(4) The violent Bedbound was about "me finding a real love for my father"; the daughter's pell-mell use of language was a twisted amplification of Walsh's own.
(5) Walsh's best work, including the very strange Bedbound (2000) and The Walworth Farce (2006), hinges on often slightly mad characters trapped inside ludicrous scenarios of their own making.
(6) My father at 93 is bedbound and in a nursing home but I have heard him talking and chortling to himself – his sense of humour still somewhere there with the memory loss and confusion of dementia.
(7) Factors which had been found to predict an adverse outcome in previous studies (requirement for ventilation, age over 40 years, time to becoming bedbound less than 4 days, and small distally evoked abductor pollicis brevis muscle action potential) were not significantly associated with a poor prognosis in this study.
(8) Specific formulas are available to calculate height, weight, and caloric needs of bedbound elderly patients.
(9) Four were still bedbound and ventilated at 6 months.
(10) That would make things so much better for people who are seriously bedbound."
(11) Yet Walsh, in plays like Bedbound , The Walworth Farce , Misterman and now Ballyturk, persistently deals with solitary, hermetic characters who live in terror of the outside world.
(12) The results suggest an increased risk of constipation for the persons walking less than 0.5 km daily [relative risk (RR) = 1.7], walking with help (RR = 3.4), chairbound (RR = 6.9) and bedbound (RR = 15.9).
(13) There are no songs in my plays Bedbound or The Walworth Farce .
(14) Without the comfort they are unable to enjoy and participate in every waking activity; without the spinal support they are destined to accept a bedbound life, not so much by the actual weakness as by the progression of spinal deformity.
(15) Radionuclide will not replace contrast venography but may well be used to complement contrast venography when it is technically unsatisfactory or unequivocal, in patients with a history of intolerance to contrast media, and in bedbound patients.
Bedfast
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Example Sentences:
(1) Chairfast patients consistently had a higher pressure-sore frequency than bedfast patients of a similar degree of helplessness.
(2) The proportion of persons with bedfast condition, cognitive impairment, and abnormal behaviors did not appear to have a relationships to level of family support.
(3) Symptomatic urinary infections (12%) and lower respiratory infections (12%) were associated with bedfast status, and the latter with tracheostomy and lung disease.
(4) Nearly 13% sustained injuries, which tended to occur more frequently among disoriented and wheelchair or bedfast patients.
(5) Skin ulcers, urethral catheters, and bedfast status were markers for nursing home-acquired infection.
(6) Although a small minority of admissions become long-term bedfast inpatients this group require a disproportionate resource commitment.
(7) Among bedfast patients, 47% of women and 58% of men and, among patients with decubitus ulcers, 37% of women and 33% of men were using a urine collection device.
(8) Bedfast or chairfast patients were studied from admission to the selected hospital wards or community nursing areas for a period of a maximum of 6 weeks or until they were discharged from care, developed pressure sores, died or became mobile.
(9) There was wide variation in peak disability, ranging from ambulant with weakness (32%), through bedfast but without significant respiratory involvement (29%), to respiratory involvement requiring admission to an intensive care unit (38%).
(10) Sixty severe GBS patients (all bedfast, 22 ventilator dependent) were analyzed clinically and with standard electromyography and nerve conduction studies.
(11) Bedfast patients are cared for by spouses or daughters-in-law.
(12) Very good improvement in motor activity was obtained in 14 females (3 without kinesitherapy) and 7 males, indicating adequate walking and independence in activities of daily living after prolonged bedfastness.
(13) Reduction in the number of bedfast inpatients is more likely to be effected by changes in unit policy than by improvement in clinical practice.
(14) Use of three characteristics (ie skin ulcers, urethral catheters, bedfast status) to identify patients at risk for nursing home-acquired infections may allow targeted infection surveillance and prevention programs.
(15) Recent United States data indicate that 20% of individuals 85 years of age or over reside in nursing and personal care homes and that among these institutional residents 31% are bedfast, 11% are chairfast and 71% manifest evidence of senility.
(16) Many geriatric beds are occupied by bedfast patients.
(17) Recumbent anthropometric techniques and B-mode ultrasound may be applicable to measuring those greater than 80 y who have difficulty standing or are chair- or bedfast.