intensive-care love

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  • adjective pertaining to intensive care

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Examples

  • In the past decade under the AKP, Turkey escaped an IMF-run intensive-care ward and became the world's fastest-growing economy.

    Arab Democracy Is the Best Bet for a Muslim Reformation 2012

  • There are also continuing shortages of drugs used in emergency rooms and intensive-care units.

    Most Hospitals Face Drug Shortages Jennifer Corbett Dooren 2011

  • A few people have dies here in Irapuato, and an intensive-care nurse friend says at his hospital the problem is no longer pre-exisiting conditions -- the mortality is high because many people develop lung damage.

    Guidelines For Flu Vacine 2009

  • As I held his hand 29 years later in the intensive-care unit of the hospital, at first I thought he was talking about someone named "Mary."

    Giving Love—And Life—Another Go Diane Cole 2011

  • When my older daughter was in the intensive-care unit as a newborn, my husband dragged me off to a movie one afternoon -- and that few hours of distraction made me much better able to cope with the situation.

    Gretchen Rubin: Balanced LIfe -- 8 Tips for Feeling Happier During an Unhappy Time. Gretchen Rubin 2011

  • Almost two years ago, my father was killed by a hospital-borne infection in the intensive-care unit of a well-regarded nonprofit hospital in New York City.

    How American Health Care Killed My Father 2009

  • In the first three days, he slept a total of about eight hours, he says, catching small naps in the pediatric intensive-care unit.

    Giffords' husband: 'She will make a full recovery' 2011

  • The hospital canceled all elective surgery and packed its intensive-care units with storm victims, including 43 suffering major trauma injuries, "much like we would see in motor-vehicle collisions," said Loring Rue, the chief of trauma surgery.

    Tornadoes Leave a Trail of Devastation Timothy W. Martin 2011

  • Easter weekend, my “ICU angel,” an amazing nurse who took care of my husband in the intensive-care unit for many weeks, invited me to a Good Friday service on the beach only in L.A.

    Live and Let Love Andrea Buchanan 2011

  • When my older daughter was in the intensive-care unit as a newborn, my husband dragged me off to a movie one afternoon -- and that few hours of distraction made me much better able to cope with the situation.

    Gretchen Rubin: Balanced LIfe -- 8 Tips for Feeling Happier During an Unhappy Time. Gretchen Rubin 2011

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