1.   It was doubtful whether the patient would survive the operation.

2.   More and more heart patients are surviving thanks to improved surgical techniques.

3.   More patients are surviving thanks to improved surgical techniques.

4.   The advance of medical technology has meant that more patients survive.

5.   Repeated bleeding at short intervals is the common pattern if the patient survives the initial haemorrhage.

6.   In Canada a study concluded that polychemotherapy was less expensive than best supportive care although patients survived for longer in the chemotherapy group.

7.   A simple bedside test can predict which comatose patients will survive and whether they will suffer severe brain damage, researchers from Beth Israel Hospital reported Wednesday.

8.   Contrary to initial prognoses, the patient has survived and may actually thrive.

9.   Doctors were urged to look for evidence of long-term complications from anthrax because the issue had rarely been addressed, in part because few patients had survived inhalation anthrax.

10.   Doctors are reluctant to transplant organs into someone with a complicated illness, fearing the patient will not survive.