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Adam had gone to the match with his father, Eddie, who also passed out in the crush and who woke up on a ventilator in intensive care at Sheffield's Northern General hospital.
Accompanied by a nurse and his mother, this patient is on a ventilator with suction equipment.
The Scot was admitted to hospital in Kilmarnock, near Glasgow, last week where she was put on a ventilator because of an extreme reaction to the H1N1 virus.
He and his team conducted trials of an experimental kind of ventilator on 122 premature babies: 43 died or suffered brain damage, compared with 32 of the 122 babies the team treated with traditional ventilators.Two basic charges have been levelled against Dr Southall's trial: that it was damaging to some of the babies involved; and that some families were dishonestly inducted into it.
Air samples taken from the plant's ventilator shafts indicate an eightfold increase in particles capable of emitting alpha and gamma radiation.
The illness gradually paralyses its victims, but, with characteristic logic, Mr Finney pointed out that it was not a death sentence even when those muscles necessary for breathing gave out, life could carry on with the aid of a mechanical ventilator.
In accordance with his wishes, he was disconnected from his ventilator.
By contrast, a killing is considered to be manslaughter in cases where the defendant did not mean to kill but was grossly negligent for example, if a doctor fails to notice that a ventilator tube has been disconnected or caused someone's death while carrying out an illegal act.
He spent over four months in hospital, much of the time on a ventilator , and had countless tests, scans and other interventions.
Nevertheless, earlier this year he decided that he wanted to die, and demanded that his ventilator be turned off.Friends, family, local Catholic priests and the staff at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York, where he had lived for three decades, spent weeks trying to make him change his mind.
Yet Britain still has proportionately fewer low-cost hotels than many other countries; budget brands make up a quarter of the French market, for example, and a third of the American one, reckons the BHA.Many of the capital's existing hotels are cramped and basic, with windows that look onto ventilator shafts or grubby side streets rather than the capital's tourist glories.
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The primary grammatical function of "ventilator" is as a noun , referring to a device. As Ludwig AI confirms, it can also describe a device for circulating fresh air. Examples showcase its use in both medical and mechanical contexts.
Expression frequency: Very common
