(n.) A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step.
(n.) The length of a step in walking or marching, reckoned from the heel of one foot to the heel of the other; -- used as a unit in measuring distances; as, he advanced fifty paces.
(n.) Manner of stepping or moving; gait; walk; as, the walk, trot, canter, gallop, and amble are paces of the horse; a swaggering pace; a quick pace.
(n.) A slow gait; a footpace.
(n.) Specifically, a kind of fast amble; a rack.
(n.) Any single movement, step, or procedure.
(n.) A broad step or platform; any part of a floor slightly raised above the rest, as around an altar, or at the upper end of a hall.
(n.) A device in a loom, to maintain tension on the warp in pacing the web.
(v. i.) To go; to walk; specifically, to move with regular or measured steps.
(v. i.) To proceed; to pass on.
(v. i.) To move quickly by lifting the legs on the same side together, as a horse; to amble with rapidity; to rack.
(v. i.) To pass away; to die.
(v. t.) To walk over with measured tread; to move slowly over or upon; as, the guard paces his round.
(v. t.) To measure by steps or paces; as, to pace a piece of ground.
(v. t.) To develop, guide, or control the pace or paces of; to teach the pace; to break in.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the stage 24 chick embryo, a paced increase in heart rate reduces stroke volume, presumably by rate-dependent decrease in passive filling.
(2) But not only did it post a larger loss than expected, Amazon also projected 7% to 18% revenue growth over the busiest shopping period of the year, a far cry from the 20%-plus pace that had convinced investors to overlook its persistent lack of profit in the past.
(3) All 3 drugs increased the basic cycle length of pacing at which VT was induced and the cycle time of the resulting VT.
(4) George Osborne said the 146,000 fall in joblessness marked "another step on the road to full employment" but Labour and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) seized on news that earnings were failing to keep pace with prices.
(5) Rapid right ventricular pacing increased the extent and degree of dyskinesia of the left ventricle, but premedication with nicorandil improved the wall motion.
(6) The decrease in cardiac performance observed during ventricular pacing was related to the severity of asynchrony rather than the direction of the ventricular depolarization or change in regional myocardial tension.
(7) Propafenone depressed the spontaneous heart rate and prolonged the postatrial pacing recovery times.
(8) The difference in APD between the first drive train and drive trains after at least 3 minutes of pacing when APD had stabilized was not significant for an inter-train pause exceeding 8 seconds.
(9) Twelve patients (group 1), all with coronary artery disease, produced myocardial lactate during pacing.
(10) During rapid pacing at 600, 500, 400, 350, 300, and 250 msec cycle lengths, mixed venous oxygen saturation decreased as cycle length decreased.
(11) Electrophysiological findings in the patients with LQTS showed no characteristic findings, but only mild abnormalities with functional atrioventricular conduction disturbance on programmed atrial pacing.
(12) For this purpose, the fastest possible self-paced single isometric forefinger extensions and the fastest alternating forefinger movements were tested.
(13) A "J-shaped" atrial lead was used for ventricular pacing with excellent long-term results.
(14) Advocates would point to the influence Giggs maintains in the United midfield – developing a more creative game from a central role to compensate for the loss of his once blistering pace.
(15) Use of sunglasses that block all ultraviolet radiation and severely attenuate high-energy visible radiation will slow the pace of ocular deterioration and delay the onset of age-related disease, thereby reducing its prevalence.
(16) The reasons are often financial, but can also be a desire for a change of pace or new experiences.
(17) Our strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae are isochromosomal and isomitochondrial due to all of them have originated from one haploid pace XII of Sacch.
(18) The effect of programmed electrical stimulation on the first post-pacing interval was determined during sustained ventricular tachycardia and, following its spontaneous termination during an episode when ectopic activity could only be induced by pacing.
(19) In tests on 13 cells pacing at a 200 mua drain without recharging, the simulated mean duration of pacing before total discharge was 4.8 years.
(20) To eliminate pacing stimulus afterpotential and detect an evoked response, a hardware feedback circuit and a software template matching algorithm were used to produce a triphasic charge-balanced pacing pulse.
Pacu
Definition:
(n.) A South American freah-water fish (Myleies pacu), of the family Characinidae. It is highly esteemed as food.
Example Sentences:
(1) My advice to all PACU nurses is to begin recording observations and keep an inventory.
(2) We then measured the patient's sublingual temperature every 5 minutes prior to induction, every 15 minutes intraoperatively, and every 15 minutes postoperatively until he or she was discharged from the postanesthesia care unit, (PACU).
(3) PACU nurses are still the first line of support for the injured athlete.
(4) Patients who listened to music perceived their PACU experience as significantly more pleasant than the patients in the other two groups as recalled both 1 day and 1 month later.
(5) Between transport and PACU entry, the four groups had mean temperature decreases ranging from 1.6 degrees to 2.3 degrees F (0.9 degree to 1.3 degrees C).
(6) Of the nonsmokers, 38% were found to have PACU stays of less than 1 hour, compared with 23% of the smokers.
(7) One patient in the sufentanil 1.0 micrograms.kg-1 group whose surgical time was less than 45 min exhibited respiratory depression in the PACU requiring narcotic reversal.
(8) No additional pain medication was required by patients in the PACU in either group.
(9) Limited published research is available regarding the needs of family members of PACU patients.
(10) In both groups, 52% of the patients were hypothermic (less than 35 degrees C[less than 95 degrees F]) on PACU admission.
(11) Continuous pulse oximetry was performed on 173 adults after general anaesthesia for elective inpatient surgery, throughout their post-anaesthesia care unit (PACU) stay.
(12) Findings indicate that temperature on PACU admission is not a variable of difference between groups of patients who develop or who do not develop PS.
(13) Desflurane may benefit elderly patients by providing a more rapid recovery from anesthesia, leading to a shorter PACU stay.
(14) Data showed a PACU complication rate of 23.7%, with an overall intraoperative complication rate of 5.1%.
(15) Sufentanil at all three doses prevented increases in SAP and HR with intubation and incision, provided superior pain relief in the PACU and did not prolong wake-up time.
(16) However, upon testing in the PACU 15 min later, 45% (13 of 29) of Group P patients and 8% (2 of 25) of Group V patients had a TOF ration less than 0.70.
(17) Part II of this article, which will be published in a subsequent issue of this journal, will present research problems that are of interest and the ways in which PACU nurses can use the qualitative research designs discussed in part I of the article.
(18) The installed system, based on four levels of care, provided the following results: more accurate cost of PACU care data reflecting both length and intensity of care; more accurate PACU workload units provided to hospital-wide productivity reporting system; patients charged based on both level and intensity of nursing care in the PACU; nurses feeling that their care efforts are recognized and appreciated; and estimation of overall workload for the next day along with when workload should peak.
(19) Exploitation can also occur when the PACU becomes a resevoir for critical care patients, ie, from the emergency room, due to overcrowded conditions in the ICUs and CCUs.
(20) The purpose of this article is to present an overview of qualitative research methods that can be used by PACU nurses.