Agonal

Définitions de « agonal »

Agonal - Adjectif

• Relatif à la lutte ou à la compétition.

  Dans le journalisme, chaque article est une arène agonal, où les mots rivalisent pour captiver l'attention du lecteur.

Étymologie de « agonal »

Évolution historique de l’usage du mot « agonal » depuis 1800

Citations contenant le mot « agonal »

• Medical texts and healthcare providers sometimes refer to a type of breathing called agonal respirations or agonal breathing. You may have heard this term and wondered what it means. It is a specific type of respiratory pattern and might be mistaken for adequate breathing in an emergency.

• People experiencing cardiac arrest will suddenly become unresponsive and either stop breathing or gasp for air, a sign known as agonal breathing, said researchers at the University of Washington (UW) in the US.

• People experiencing cardiac arrest will suddenly become unresponsive and either stop breathing or gasp for air, a sign known as agonal breathing. Immediate CPR can double or triple someone's chance of survival, but that requires a bystander to be present.

• In practice, the most common infections in patients receiving end-of-life care are in the urinary and respiratory tracts. Antibiotics are beneficial in the short term in managing symptoms associated with urinary tract infections (effective in 60% to 92% of cases), so they should be considered if the patient is not in the agonal or pre-agonal phase of death.

• The researchers extracted 236 clips of agonal breathing from 911 calls between 2009 and 2017, then played these clips at different distances to a speaker and added interfering sounds typically found in a bedroom—such as pets, cars honking, and air conditioners. They also included sound samples of snoring and sleep apnea recorded in sleep labs. (They did not test how the algorithm responds to the gasping, moaning sounds of sex. We asked.)

Traductions du mot « agonal »

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