How To Use Ventilator In A Sentence
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Patients were screened daily using published guidelines for ability to wean from the mechanical ventilator.
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A pocket mask will enable ventilatory support to be given to apnoeic patients (whether due to trauma or medical causes).
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Once the ventilator shaft became blocked, the warehouse quickly filled with fumes.
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Current areas of investigation include neurohumoral, cellular and molecular mechanisms regulating airway contractility, airway smooth muscle growth and cell surface receptor expression; regulation of postnatal development and growth of the lung; developmental effects of pulmonary inflammation and oxidative lung injury on airway and pulmonary vascular reactivity; biochemical and molecular regulation of membrane ion channels in cystic fibrosis; maturational changes in chest wall and airway function; pulmonary manifestations of sickle cell disease; the physiological basis of ventilator dependence in children with chronic respiratory insufficiency; and developmental aspects of respiratory mechanics and ventilatory control.
Fellowship Program in Pulmonary Medicine
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The air was delivered from a manual resuscitator or portable volume ventilator via a mouthpiece or nasal interface.
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Plenty of light enters through empty portholes on both sides of the engine room and ventilator hatches in the roof.
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Nowadays, thanks to artificial surfactants, which keep newborn lungs expanded after that first big breath, ventilators designed specifically for tiny lungs, maternal steroid therapy, the survival rates of the teenier, tinier babies are actually improving.
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One of the main reasons for treating patients in an intensive care unit is that they need ventilatory support, usually by sedation and endotracheal intubation.
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The turbine ventilator (also known as "whirlybird") is one of the many types of roof vents available, preferred by some because it uses a wind-propelled fan instead of an electric fan to draw heat and moisture out of the attic space.
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Before transferring an intubated infant, assess vital signs, pain score, breath sounds and ventilator tubing for excess water.
Guidelines for Skin-to-skin Contact
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She was put on a ventilator up to eight times a year until the age of six.
Times, Sunday Times
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Once mechanical ventilation has been started, it is important to avoid high ventilator pressures and the associated risks of barotrauma.
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According to the social worker's notes, the hospital anticipated that the patient would need long-term ventilator care and that, as a legal immigrant with less than five years in this country, he would not qualify for Arizona's Medicaid coverage.
T r u t h o u t
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The tent was made of reinforced cambric, fawn coloured, with sewn - in groundsheet, and at each end a circular sleeve-door and ventilator.
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At altitude, the human body adjusts to taking more frequent, deeper breaths in a process called ventilatory acclimatization.
Re-Entering New York's Atmosphere
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The anesthesia care provider must use a latex-free breathing circuit with plastic mask and bag, and the ventilator bellows must be nonlatex.
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M. O'BRIEN: CBS reporter Kimberly dozier is on the mend, off the ventilator and talking to her family and doctors.
CNN Transcript Jun 2, 2006
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Ventilation was provided by a high-frequency jet ventilator through a cannula attached to the proximal port of the rigid bronchoscope.
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A potential corollary benefit of reducing duration of mechanical ventilation is a reduction in ventilator-associated complications.
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He is reliant on a 6,000 ventilator machine to breathe.
Times, Sunday Times
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Long-term intermittent noninvasive ventilation is effective in reversing ventilatory failure and improving respiratory muscle function.
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Included in the patient population were immunocompetent adults receiving ventilatory support in hospital or long-term care settings.
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Patients with ankylosing spondylitis rarely if ever develop ventilatory failure without superimposed lung disease.
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This paper have introduced the design of synchronous lung ventilator.
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The effective management of ventilatory control abnormalities has important prognostic implications in the setting of both acute and chronic disease.
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Kevin Gunning, a consultant at Addenbrooke's hospital in Cambridge, who is a member of the council of the Intensive Care Society, said that a crisis in the hard winter of 2000, when hospitals suffered a shortage of critical care beds, led to the government investing significantly more money mostly in high-dependency beds, where patients are not on a ventilator, rather than intensive care.
UK needs more critical care beds, warn researchers
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Victims often end up on a ventilator in intensive care, with some unable to breathe unaided for three months or more.
Times, Sunday Times
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You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where the little opening for the ventilator is.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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He has undergone surgery and is breathing on a ventilator.
Times, Sunday Times
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But Mr Bingham was taken off the ventilator in the recovery room shortly after the operation.
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It had become clear that my mother would not make another of her miraculous comebacks; the chief resident admitted that keeping her on the ventilator was a futile exercise.
In the Fullness of Time
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The best thing about a ventilator is that while it's in place, the patient can't talk.
February 2005
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Robin slowly woke up to the sound of a ventilator humming.
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The indoor air circulates through the core of the heat recovery ventilator along with cold, fresh, outdoor air.
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The participants going in wore full equipment, including ventilators, and had it checked by their compatriots going in.
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In November he was readmitted to hospital and put on a ventilator for ten days after doctors suspected the steroids had affected his immune system.
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Paralyzing the muscles required that the anaesthetist take over the ventilation of the patient's lungs, and this resulted in the development of automatic ventilators, the forerunners of today's life support machines.
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She then had the unbearable task of turning off her husband's ventilator.
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He is given earplugs to dampen the continuous jetting of the high-frequency ventilator that is like a wash cycle forever in its final spin, but there is no way of telling what he actually hears.
Between Expectations
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Didn't Karen tell Norman a ventilator was the only "right" course?
Barbara Coombs Lee: Palliative Care Information Act at the Bedside: Achieving Truly Informed Consent
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The ventilator breathed for her, pushing air through the tube into her lungs.
DO NO HARM
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So you can see why turbine ventilators should never be covered up in the winter.
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In general increased sensitivity is preferable in order to improve patient-ventilator synchrony (ie to stop the patient "fighting" the ventilator) but excessively high sensitivity may result in false or auto-triggering (ie ventilator detects what it "thinks" is an attempt by the patient to breath although the patient is apnoeic).
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Too high a tidal volume or a pressure and we risk various forms of barotrauma and too little of either seems to be associated with atelectasis ,blood shunting and another form of ventilator induced lung damage from forces related to opening and closing of gas exchange units.
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About 3 per million of the general population require domiciliary ventilator or oxygen therapy because of thoracic deformity.
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I was in a wile state when he was put on a ventilator.
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Passive humidifiers or heat-moisture exchangers decrease ventilator circuit colonization but have not significantly reduced the incidence of VAP.
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He has undergone surgery and is breathing on a ventilator.
Times, Sunday Times
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To a patient whose lungs are temporarily compromised, short-term ventilator support is often the difference between life and death.
Jacob M. Appel: The Coming Ethical Crisis: Oxygen Rationing
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The ventilator would take over now, breathing for him, forcing into his lungs a precise mixture of oxygen and halothane.
Life Support
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Too high a tidal volume or a pressure and we risk various forms of barotrauma and too little of either seems to be associated with atelectasis ,blood shunting and another form of ventilator induced lung damage from forces related to opening and closing of gas exchange units.
Complex trials for complex condition can be ..well complex
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Between uses on different patients, portable respirometers and ventilator thermometers should be sterilized or subjected to high-level disinfection.
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I love the pre-dreadnought era of naval history, with its giant flaring brass ventilator shafts, underpowered guns, white paint and coal funnels.
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He is working on the prototype of a new type of ventilator.
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Miss Nelson had to be put on a ventilator in the high-dependency unit of the Manchester Royal Infirmary and stayed in hospital for more than three weeks.
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It is incredibly daunting - he is attached to a ventilator, through a tracheostomy tube, as his lungs are so damaged.
The Sun
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A tetraplegic woman on a ventilator made legal history last week when she became the first patient in the United Kingdom to go to court in a bid to have the ventilator switched off.
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By far, the two basic indications for tracheostomy are airway obstruction and ventilatory support.
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Ms Winslet's tour de force as a hyperventilatory winner has been applauded by the critics, with Derek Malcolm of the Evening Standard describing it as 'a triumph of emphysematous excellence '.
Winslet Nominated for Further Award
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Because ventilator data are not routinely abstracted into administrative data sets, community-based, longitudinal studies of changes in ALI therapy are not available.
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Among the accessories were cookware and crockery, trolleys and storage racks, dustbins and garbage disposers, carpets and cleaning supplies, kitchen hardware and ventilators.
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In his 2 short years on earth, Eric has undergone two cardiac catherizations, and another procedure to combat gastral reflux caused from being on a ventilator for so long.
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A smart bomb found its way down the ventilator shaft of the shelter.
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A paralyzed man in the U.K. was left brain-damaged after a nurse working in his home accidentally switched off his ventilator, the BBC is reporting.
Violetta Aylward, UK Nurse, Turns Off Man's Life Support By Mistake (VIDEO)
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They occur frequently in the mines, which often lack even rudimentary safety equipment such as ventilators to disperse the gas.
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She developed respiratory distress at birth requiring placement on a ventilator, that progressively worsened, eventually requiring placement onto extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
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Inlet chamber temperature was influenced by ambient air temperature and ventilator output temperature.
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She has now survived more than nine months without the aid of a ventilator.
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Transient apnea and hypoventilation occurred with all drugs, suggesting the need for available ventilatory support.
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They occur frequently in Chinese mines, which often lack even rudimentary safety equipment such as ventilators to disperse the gas.
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Thus, the ventilatory control system rapidly employs a variety of compensatory mechanisms in the service of its ultimate function.
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It's a centre for 23,000 deliveries, and we have 18 cots but only 9 intensive care cots with ventilators.
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The ventilator is a tube that runs through Dax's mouth and into his lungs to facilitate respiration.
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Similarly, the Workgroup's approach overtly confined its triage guidelines to those patients in hospitals or in need of acute care, and excluded patients on long-term ventilator support in long-term care facilities.
Jacob M. Appel: The Coming Ethical Crisis: Oxygen Rationing
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He was fed liquid meals into the stomach and needed a ventilator to breathe.
The Sun
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He is intubated and on a ventilator, having gotten progressively worse since the night I was first on call.
Between Expectations
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Is it possible to buy a solar-powered greenhouse ventilator?
The Sun
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The look-out openings on the parapet and even the gun-holes that honeycomb the scarp, serve as ventilators.
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The exhaust ports of the mechanical ventilators were left open to the room.
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The first stage is for the clinician to decide whether or not a ventilator-supported patient has a reasonable likelihood of being able to breathe on his or her own.
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It has a good asphalt yard and slate lavatories; you can see the building from far off because of the big green ventilators.
TESTIMONIES
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The ventilators are blocked, and roof tiles have caved in and have been replaced by paper and cardboard.
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And I agree that starving or dehydrating or just stopping a ventilator is cruel.
Defending Your Existence
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I've had various animal dander allergies forever, and was having serious troubles with breathing, so the doctors decided steroidal treatments and ventilators would be best.
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Maybe we should put ventilators in the White House, just in case.
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Once the ventilator shaft became blocked, the warehouse quickly filled with fumes.
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In addition to the liquid desiccant system, the team has also used a Energy Recovery Ventilator ERV, a commercially available product from Ultimate Air, which provides ventilation and air filtration while moderating the heat and moisture exchange from the outside air.
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But there she was hooked up to a ventilator to keep her breathing.
The Sun
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The cell was so small that my legs, which are long, had to be tucked up almost under my chin; I could imagine that in hot weather the want of air would be oppressive, but though the sense of being so closely confined was disagreeable, the draughts from the ventilators seemed to play upon one almost excessively and I felt very cold.
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Some of the babies, two I think, are on ventilators, so they will have to be hand-bagged from the moment the power goes out until …
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A viral upper respiratory infection may impair the ventilatory function of the eustachian tube.
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He was breathing only with the aid of a ventilator.
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Power losses occurring during the operation of a controlled asynchronous motor are calculated and used to determine the parameters of the cooling air flow produced by a ventilator.
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His condition became so bad he had to be kept alive on a ventilator.
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Some patients could have stopped exercising due to nonventilatory reasons, such as leg muscle fatigue.
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I once had a conversation with a fairly well-known bioethicist about his experience turning off the ventilator on his brain-dead father.
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A cuirass ventilator, rocking bed, and pneumobelt are less commonly used.
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He was brought into intensive care shortly after the crash and immediately put on a ventilator.
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Nowhere have these drains been carried through the houses, but they are taken directly into drains at the back, having specially ventilated manholes and being brought through at the ends of terraces into the road sewers; the ventilating openings in the roads have been converted into inlet ventilators by placing upcast shafts at short intervals, discharging above the houses.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883
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Alternatively, you can install an automatic greenhouse ventilator, which will do the job for you.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was breathing with the aid of a ventilator in intensive care.
The Sun
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This is a model beehive, and that is a ventilator, for ventilating sewers.
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Respiratory illnesses such as RDS, transient tachypnea, pneumonia and respiratory failure can lead to other problems such as longer hospitalization, the need for a ventilator or antibiotics, and issues with feeding and failure to gain weight.
THE MEDICAL NEWS
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He stuffed the ventilator shafts up to stop the smoke from entering his room.
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It can help in the diagnosis of an obstructive ventilatory pattern.
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But, a zygote, embryo, fetus, child, adolescent, adult, and senior citizen on a ventilator are all human persons and therefore must not be killed.
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Sepsis can produce ventilatory failure because of respiratory muscle dysfunction and increased metabolic demands.
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She underwent MAJOR heart surgery when she was 10 days old and needs a ventilator.
Times, Sunday Times
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I am specifically not against not initiating treatment in hopeless situations or withdrawing life support - which I define as breathing assistance ie a ventilator, kidney dialysis, pacemaker, etc. - when all hope is lost.
New Thread for Terri Schiavo Discussion
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The Daily Dispatch learnt that the three-day-old baby was in an incubator in the nursery and had been breathing with a ventilator.
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Inspired gas hygrometry was measured with the ventilator and airway circuit connected to a test lung under the following conditions.
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Current areas of investigation include neurohumoral, cellular and molecular mechanisms regulating airway contractility, airway smooth muscle growth and cell surface receptor expression; regulation of postnatal development and growth of the lung; developmental effects of pulmonary inflammation and oxidative lung injury on airway and pulmonary vascular reactivity; biochemical and molecular regulation of membrane ion channels in cystic fibrosis; maturational changes in chest wall and airway function; pulmonary manifestations of sickle cell disease; the physiological basis of ventilator dependence in children with chronic respiratory insufficiency; and developmental aspects of respiratory mechanics and ventilatory control.
Fellowship Program in Pulmonary Medicine
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He needed a ventilator to help him breathe and was fed through a tube in his stomach.
The Sun
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There were ventilators but the portholes had to remain closed.
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Remove the ventilators and put in the storm plates; duct tape over hatches and large port lights.
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In brain death donations, the donor is kept on a ventilator to keep blood flowing to organs until they can be removed.
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Be like inside door work must assemble ventilator, ensure indoor airflow.
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Victims often end up on a ventilator in intensive care, with some unable to breathe unaided for three months or more.
Times, Sunday Times
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The patient dies 71 days later as doctors try to wean him from a ventilator.
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I remembered her as being dependent on a ventilator, bloated with excess fluid, and too weak to even lift her hands off the bed.
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Adjustable ceiling ventilators let you control the airflow, while a window on the fly makes it feel less like you're in the doghouse.
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Nursing home services are mostly for people who need more medical care than other long term care options can offer, such as wound care, rehabilitative therapy and help with respirators or ventilators.
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‘Close all doors, windows and ventilators,’ says the MoD report.
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Six patients reported symptomatic improvement, including three who were weaned off the mechanical ventilator.
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My son became extremely unwell and was in intensive care on a ventilator.
The Sun
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On the top of the kiln should be placed a ventilator to draw off the steam of the malt, this may be done by means of a loover or cow; the latter turns with the wind, the former is stationary.
The American Practical Brewer and Tanner
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But six and a half weeks on a ventilator in intensive care was a precursor to a life spent fighting the odds.
Times, Sunday Times
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Our rivet nuts are widely used in automobile, railway, elevator, electric cabinet, ventilator, air-condition, furniture, construction and equipment in electric and light industry production.
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She is looking forward to the ceremony, when she plans to raise the bar for awards winners everywhere with a bravura performance of wheezing - culminating in her giving her acceptance speech from the back of an ambulance while on a ventilator.
Winslet Nominated for Further Award
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She's wrapped in like a plastic bag to keep her warm, and her skin is all raw and bruised-looking, and she's on a ventilator.
Humor Helped Author Cope With High-Risk Birth
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The upward current in these ventiducts will be secured by a gas burner or steam pipe in each of the ventilators.
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Risk Factors for Ventilator - associated Pneumonia by Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Presence of Recent Antibiotic Exposure.
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Ventilators can help patients with acute berylliosis breathe.
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A heat recovery ventilator comprising four rectangular regenerative heat exchangers, two blowers, a rotating air switch all disposed in a compact rectangular housing.
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When she regained consciousness, she was on a ventilator with a tube down her nose.
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His biggest nuisance was his dependence on the ventilator and round-the-clock nursing care.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ventilator chimneys sprouting on the roofs of his Barcelona apartments resemble a collection of mounted life forms from an alien planet.
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We stratified trials by different high-frequency ventilators and by different ventilatory strategies.
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This is a phenomenon that can be evoked by brief hypoxia exposure, promotes ventilatory stability, and protects against dysrhythmic breathing.
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Furthermore, lung denervated lung transplant patients, unlike intact subjects, showed much difficulty in entraining their spontaneous rhythm to the mechanical ventilator during sleep.
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Several quarters have expressed concern towards preserving these Havelis which have large latticed windows, carved woodwork and large ventilators and parapets.
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In this way, another study shows that ventilatory responses to hypoxia were higher in hypertensive patients than in normotensive OSA patients.
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If you have done a really thorough job of draughtproofing, consider installing heat-recovery ventilators to maximise your air quality.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was breathing only with the aid of a ventilator.
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According to program statistics from 2001, 70 per cent of new homes without proper heat recovery ventilators were under-ventilated.
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Ventilator chimneys sprouting on the roofs of his Barcelona apartments resemble a collection of mounted life forms from an alien planet.
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He stuffed the ventilator shafts up to stop the smoke from entering his room.
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The nice advances in technology have allowed us to take the big obvious ventilators and reduce them down to a size that is compatible and compactible.
CNN Transcript Oct 12, 2001
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Frequent communication with his family revealed that he desired to have ventilator support withdrawn.
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Three weeks ago he was taken off a ventilator and gradually his trachaetomy tube was reduced in size, until it could be removed completely.
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Emily was put on a ventilator and christened in the hospital, but after five weeks doctors said she was strong enough to go home with her parents.
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Dr. Meltzer's research focuses on sleep in caregivers of children with chronic health conditions, including caregivers of ventilator-dependent children and children with autism.
Sleep disorders research
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The three islanders swarmed from the tiny forecastle, two of them leaping to the halyards and holding by a single turn, while the third fastened down the engineroom, companion and swung the ventilators around.
Bunches of Knuckles
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Therefore, the correct ventilator setting should theoretically be tested during a formal sleep study.
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Fifteen have been so ill they have required ventilator support to stay alive.
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The much-needed ventilators cost £20,000 each and the band hopes to give the fundraising appeal a real boost.
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She was immediately transferred to the ICU, where she was intubated and on a ventilator for a week before her parents decided to withdraw care.
Between Expectations
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He had had a large section of gut removed and was struggling for life on a ventilator.
Times, Sunday Times
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Six of the patients had ventilator-associated pneumonia and 3 were bacteremic.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
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He's deaf and has had a tracheostomy, relying heavily on a ventilator and suction machine to help him breathe.
The Sun
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She was alert and oriented but on a ventilator due to a progressive debilitative disease process.
I Want to Hold Your Hand
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Air can be sucked out of the container, creating a vacuum, while the baby's head remains outside the ventilator.
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Because of severe dyspnea, he was intubated and given mechanical ventilatory support.
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This model is designed to realistically simulate the mechanics of the adult ventilatory system.
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I was in intensive care on a ventilator and suffered multiple organ failure.
The Sun
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Firemen used a positive pressure ventilator to force out the smoke.
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She suffered from a mystery illness that left her unable to breathe without a ventilator.
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To minimise potential bias, the study investigators set up the ventilators but were not involved in the clinical management of patients.
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However, another study — one of many that could be cited — Effect of N-acetyl-cysteine on the hypoxic ventilatory response and erythropoietin production: linkage between plasma thiol redox state and O2 chemosensitivity, found that very modest doses of NAC, 200 mg three times daily, massively increased erythropoeitin production and increased the hypoxic ventilatory response.
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Muscle relaxants should be prescribed only after failure of analgesic and sedative regimens to optimise ventilatory support or reduce oxygen consumption.
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Conclusion Smoking could injure ventilatory function, and initial manifestations are hypofunction mainly in small airway.
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When a ventilator is removed from an apnoeic comatose patient, it is the disease or injury that causes the loss of the patient's ability to breathe spontaneously.
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The funnel stands upright from the superstructure, with a pair of ventilators right behind it.
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A corridor along the room on one side has ventilators opening onto the drain.
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At one end of the hall, turbine air ventilators have been put up.
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Unusually for such cases, she was evidently competent and clearly stated her wish for the ventilator to be switched off.
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I'm paralysed from the neck down and need a ventilator to help me breathe.
Times, Sunday Times
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Patients with artificial airways (tracheostomies) are generally admitted to the Neonatal Infant Center (NIC), Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), or the long term ventilator unit (Progressive Care Unit, PCU), depending on the age of the child and acuity of the condition.
Technology dependence center
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Despite being given 34 surgical staples in his skull and catching pneumonia in hospital, Ben was taken off a ventilator one week after the accident.
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Such a cytokine storm as part of the adaptive response is characteristic of avian (bird) flu, where patients “drown in mucus” due to the overwhelming nature of the response and often require ventilator support to avoid death.
Creeping Crud
