Sentence examples for mechanical ventilator that from inspiring English sources

Diaphragm pacing, as an alternative to a mechanical ventilator that can eliminate the need for positive pressure ventilation (PPV), has been shown to improve quality of life and extend survival in patients with advanced respiratory muscle weakness [7].

The clinical implication is that use of prophylactic low Vt ventilation may obviate negative interactions between forces generated by the mechanical ventilator that affect the innate immune response, thus improving clinical outcome.

Neurally adjusted ventilatory assist (NAVA) is a new mode of assisted mechanical ventilation that uses the signal obtained from electromyography activity of the diaphragm (EAdi) to control the mechanical ventilator that delivers assist in proportion to the patient's respiratory drive.

CAMDEN, N.J., April 20 — Gov. Jon S. Corzine was breathing on his own for the first time in a week on Friday after doctors removed a mechanical ventilator that had been helping him breathe since he was critically injured in a car accident.

Patients can often exercise while still attached to life support equipment, such as a mechanical ventilator that helps them breathe, the group shows.

stay, but scientists are beginning to worry about the effects of simply being in an intensive care unit, on a mechanical ventilator that pushes oxygen under pressure in and out of the lungs, receiving doses of sedatives, narcotics and anesthetics high enough to make even healthy people stop breathing on their own.

We are aware of the fact that not all ICUs have mechanical ventilators that measure VCO2 continuously.

The syndrome was formerly the leading cause of death in premature infants, but considerable success in saving affected infants has been achieved by using mechanical ventilators that deliver air under pressure into the alveoli.

Ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) is a complication of mechanical ventilation that increased ICU length of stay and mortality.

Objective To evaluate the effects of intraoperative protective ventilation on major postoperative respiratory complications and to define safe intraoperative mechanical ventilator settings that do not translate into an increased risk of postoperative respiratory complications.

A positive end expiratory pressure (PEEP) of 5 cmH2O and a plateau pressure of 16 cmH2oror less were identified as protective mechanical ventilator targets that did not result in an increased risk of ventilator associated postoperative respiratory complications.