0 an opening or a device that allows fresh air to come into a closed space:
He was still in a critical ward, still breathing through a ventilator and still without feeling in any of his limbs.
Early reports found death rates as high as 90% among COVID-19 patients on ventilators.
Three days after surgery, she was taken off the ventilator, but had to go back on it a day later.
He was brought into intensive care shortly after the accident and immediately put on a ventilator.
The bathroom had no window but it had an electric ventilator.
During bypass, basic mechanical ventilation was supported with minimal ventilator settings.
In all these patients, embolization resulted in prompt clinical improvement, enabling them to be weaned from the ventilator.
No one seriously proposed that the families were mistaken in thinking that ventilator support would be effective in prolonging the patient's biological existence.
Would it be morally acceptable to remove the ventilator rather than wean the baby as was done in the case?
However, he expressed severe doubts about the case in which a physician turns off a ventilator.
Thirteen of those sixteen (81 %) were on the ventilator prior to surgery.
The neonates could be weaned from the ventilator within hours of starting this new therapeutic modality.
At this point, the ventilator, along with other forms of treatment, can and should be discontinued.