Word: monitored
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...book Chronicles her experiences exploring her family roots, a process that began in 1987 with her arrival in the U.S. on an exchange program between the Moscow News and the Christian Science Monitor...
Experts estimate that up to half of surgical patients suffer moderate to severe postoperative pain. No one knows for sure because while hospitals laboriously monitor every patient's temperature and blood pressure, they keep no charts on pain. It is the rare hospital that employs a comprehensive pain- management team to ease patients' suffering, and a rarer medical school that spends much time teaching the subject. Traditionally, physicians have regarded pain as an ancillary problem. "The focus was on disease. Pain was merely a marker of disease," says Dr. Kathleen M. Foley, pain-service chief at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer...
Fortunately, technology, improved drug protocols and changing attitudes toward pain management have come to the rescue of children and adults. Skilled pediatricians now routinely give morphine to children and infants to ease postoperative pain. Oxymeters, which monitor breathing, alert nurses to early signs of respiratory problems. When morphine is inappropriate, large doses of local anesthetic work well. Pediatric-pain specialists use a plastic scale of happy to crying faces to help young children express how they feel. And doctors have learned to recognize certain infant sounds, grimaces and motionlessness as signs of suffering...
Given all of this involvement, shouldn't voting be handled a little more professionally? Why couldn't a few house administrators monitor the voting? If that isn't possible, then why not at least recruit students from another house who have never had a position on the Undergraduate Council...
...Dean checks the armbands on the biceps of his nursery school wards. Each monitor is composed of tiny optic sensors that measure the levels of thousands of different fats, proteins, carbohydrates and other molecules in the capillaries just under the skin. Then the devices transmit all this information to the central computer screen at the front of the room. The pediatrician can discern at a glance whether his charges are exhibiting optimal health...