Sentence examples for hooked to a machine from inspiring English sources

Inside, for about an hour, Ms. Delgado lies hooked to a machine that extracts plasma, the liquid part of the blood, from a vein in her arm.

Three times a week, rain or shine, an ambulette service delivered Bill to the dialysis unit where he was hooked to a machine that spent the next four hours filtering and cleaning his blood.

Unable to escape the reminder of her surgery, Davenport was hooked to a machine that bent her leg back and forth for another eight hours a day for two months.

In this method of treatment, the patient is usually hooked to a machine that transmits electric signals to gain a feedback of the body's responses to the sent signals.

The patient was quickly hooked to a portable monitor and lifted onto a gurney.

These were hooked to a switch, while a timer measured the time in the "on" position.

A black mass bobbling in the water — most likely a boat — had been spotted hooked to a distant buoy.

The apex of the heart was hooked to a strength sensor.

It's not just the time you're hooked to the machine.

Jack Kevorkian died several months ago, in a hospital bed, hooked to machines, suffering from chronic illness, a frequent flier in the same hospital where he died.

When I last saw Leigh in the hospital, this past February, she was still hooked to the ECMO machine, her lungs destroyed from the flu.