Sentence examples for pressure ventilators from inspiring English sources

According to the definition of PMV in Taiwan [ 8], we included patients over the age of 17 who had undergone either invasive or non-invasive mechanical ventilation, with negative or positive pressure ventilators for at least 21 consecutive days in the ICU or the respiratory care centre.

In a teleconference yesterday, Dr. Bradley Perkins, an anthrax expert at the centers, attributed the outcomes to aggressive treatments with antibiotics, drugs to maintain blood pressure, ventilators to aid breathing, and draining fluid that accumulates in the chest, compressing patients' lungs.

The NHI care program for PMV patients 17 years of age or older covers invasive ventilators, negative pressure ventilators, and positive pressure ventilators, under the condition that at least some use of an invasive ventilator or a negative pressure ventilator should be made prior to the first day of using a positive pressure ventilator [ 8].

Taking into account the requirements of the NHI care program for PMV patients, we added two more criteria for selecting study patients: (1) use of invasive ventilators or negative pressure ventilators at the initiating stage of care, and (2) > = 17 years of age on the 21st day of MV.

The VDR is a high-frequency, time-cycled pressure ventilator that can ventilate, oxygenate and promote secretion removal.

Briefly, the heart and lungs were surgically exposed and the lungs were ventilated with a volume cycled, positive pressure ventilator (Flexivent, Scireq, Montreal, Que., Canada) with different ventilation strategies as described in detail under the experimental design section.

The trachea was cannulated and animals were ventilated with room air using a positive pressure ventilator (Harvard Rodent Ventilator).

CI, confidence interval; CV, conventional ventilation; HFOV, High-frequency oscillation ventilation; SD, standard deviation; VDR, volume diffusive respirator (high-frequency time-cycled pressure ventilator); WMD, weight mean difference.

Breathing may require mechanical aids such as the positive pressure ventilator, which pumps air into the patient's lungs through an endotracheal tube inserted into the windpipe.

It took the GMC seven years to throw out the allegations relating to the CNEP (continuous negative pressure) ventilator, including the claim that parental consent forms had been forged and that babies had unnecessarily died.

In 1945 he designed an intermittent positive pressure ventilator, which was used successfully around Liverpool.