Sentence examples for ventilator off from inspiring English sources

Hurricane Katrina's winds had torn a ventilator off the roof, leaving a big hole for rainwater to pour through, and the water had damaged hardwood floors upstairs and kitchen cabinets.

Any act that hastens death is prohibited; so it follows that it is illegal to turn a ventilator off when a patient is dying, even if this would ease his suffering.

A nurse found him dead on Aug. 18, with the ventilator turned off, the police said yesterday.

The Bell 407, outfitted with a stretcher, cardiac monitor and ventilator, took off from Winslow at 3 16 p.m.

Hemodynamic data were taken at the end of expiration with the ventilator turned off.

The duration that the ventilator was off was too short (equivalent to the time between breaths in humans) to affect normal arterial blood flow.

All other patients in both groups weaned from mechanical ventilation remained off the ventilator for at least two weeks.

These ranged from ventilators turning off, to syringe pumps stopping and external pacemakers losing the correct pace.

This led to ventilator shut-off when the inspiratory flow exceeded the fresh gas flow.

This triggered the automatic ventilator shut-off, a safety feature of the SensorMedics oscillator.

During PSV, the target pressure support was set to achieve VT of 7 to 8 ml/kg, the inspiratory flow trigger was fixed at 2.0 L/min and the ventilator cycled-off at 25% of peak flow.