"She was the only one who made the observation then, and we don't know whether the patient had deteriorated significantly by that time."

A patient can very quickly deteriorate and die," Shafazand says.

There were no deaths and he did not consider that any patients had deteriorated following leucotomy.

The patient had been deteriorating throughout the day, particularly during the last hour, when they began to see a progressive fall in the blood pressure.

Do you usually conduct an inquisition while your patients deteriorate?

Extensive research has shown that patients in general wards often deteriorate for several hours or even days before a cardiac arrest occurs.

If, on the other hand, the patient deteriorates, the therapist looks even more sophisticated, having predicted it all along.

But French doctors reported recently that four patients who took the drug had deteriorated rapidly and died.

Some patients with head trauma stabilize and other patients deteriorate.

The reliability of change indicates whether a patient has improved, stayed the same, or deteriorated.