1.   Assisting the anaesthetist to monitor the patient during anaesthetic and recovery to prevent complications to breathing and circulation.

2.   Doctors would thus be able to monitor patients carefully without keeping them in hospital.

3.   It should now be clear that you need to monitor the patient in order to know what to do.

4.   This uses a system for monitoring hospital patients to highlight the practical aspects of the language.

5.   These patients were monitored at frequent intervals by physical examination, measurement of biochemical tests of liver integrity and function, and serological tests for HBV markers.

6.   The patient was monitored carefully for recurrent haemorrhage and controlled by endoscopy every day.

7.   At present the best way of monitoring these patients is by endoscopy.

8.   It is therefore not practical to monitor patients for long periods with this technique.