A day after the levees broke, the generators in the hospital failed, knocking out ventilators, transfusion machines and fresh water supplies.
Crystal Palace in London and Milan's Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, for example, built in 1851 and 1877 respectively, used roof ventilators and underground air-cooling chambers to regulate the indoor temperature.
Their heirs are Baden-Württemberg's "hidden champions", according to Mr Kretschmann, the mainly family-owned firms that excel in tiny and often obscure products—ventilators, say, or ball bearings.
In Britain headlines reported the grief of parents whose wishes were overruled by the courts, allowing doctors to turn off the ventilators keeping their son alive.
It is also where neurons that control breathing are located.In this section How rocks evolve First sighting Eating carbon Bad old genes Light revival ReprintsThe partial injury (there are no ventilators for rats, so the researchers could not completely sever the cord without killing them) allowed only one side of the diaphragm to work and the rats had trouble breathing.
These devices included surgical and anaesthesia equipment, ventilators, drug-infusion pumps, external defibrillators, patient monitors and various bits of laboratory gear.
Ventilators have largely replaced the "iron lungs" that gave polio such a dreadful image during the 20th century.
In addition, respiratory therapists are experts in the setup, adjustment, and maintenance of mechanical ventilators.
Medical devices: radiotherapy equipment, cardiology, dialysis, pulmonary ventilators, nuclear medicines, and analyzers.
With the widespread development of intensive care facilities in the 1950s and '60s, more and more such moribund patients were rushed to specialized units and put on ventilators just before spontaneous breathing ceased.
In the video the 47-year-old presenter, who hosts The Great British Bake Off alongside Sue Perkins, explains how important the availability of ventilators is at the hospital.
