Sentence examples for dependent on a ventilator from inspiring English sources

But he remained dependent on a ventilator and confused — able to recognize his own name and little else.

A protracted stay in the intensive care unit left him dependent on a ventilator, with a breathing tube.

As his lawyer explained to no avail, Mr. Turcinovic was a quadriplegic, dependent on a ventilator and unable to leave his home.

"Many different problems develop after nine years of being dependent on a ventilator, not being able to move yourself, having intestinal problems..

He came up empty, so the hospital moved to repatriate his son even though he was not only comatose and dependent on a ventilator but also had a very high white blood cell count, indicating infection.

Inhalants are carcinogenic, and can cause arrhythmias, deafness, lung and liver damage, and irreparable neurological damage, which can leave a child mentally disabled, dependent on a ventilator and using a gastric eating tube for the remainder of his life.

Adam is a 66-year-old man with traumatic quadriplegia who has been totally dependent on a mechanical ventilator through a tracheotomy because of permanent apnea for two years.

He became a quadriplegic depending on a ventilator to breathe.

People with GAN become progressively paralysed, then dependent on a feeding tube and ventilator before they die, usually in their teens or 20s.

Others had oxygen tanks, and one was on a ventilator.

"No one was on a ventilator, which would have complicated things immensely".