Sentence examples for ventilator unit from inspiring English sources

No long-term ventilator unit exists within the institution, and so all ventilated patients remained in one of the acute care ICUs until transfer to a facility that could accommodate such patients.

Using traditional solutions for heating and ventilation in the heating period results in wasted energy: outdoor air is heated to the desired temperature in the air heater of the supply ventilator unit (usually equal to the temperature of the room air); also, the air conditioning system consumes energy to produce cold air to address the internal heat emissions.

CVU=chronic ventilator unit: SSR=sustained spontaneous respirations; GCS=Glasgow Coma Scale: APACHE=acute physiologic and chronic health evaluation: PaCO2= arterial carbon dioxide partial tension None declared.

Heated and humidified gas flows from the ventilator unit, through the inspiratory circuit and NeoFlow air flow sensor to the patient through an endotracheal tube.

The objective of this investigation was to identify predictors of weaning outcome for patients admitted to a chronic ventilator unit (CVU).

These alternatives might include palliative care consultation [ 11], early mobility therapy [ 12, 13], transfer to an in-hospital chronic ventilator unit [ 14], or discharge to a long-term acute care facility [ 15, 16].

We chose to focus on the diaphragm specifically because respiratory muscle weakness in the ICU is a major clinical problem [ 2, 3], and diaphragm weakness in ICU patients has been shown to result in poor outcomes, including prolonged duration of mechanical ventilation, increased incidence of patient transfers to long term ventilator units and higher ICU mortality [ 2, 3].

For example, the results may not directly apply to hospital systems with intermediate care/step down units for high intensity patients not requiring mechanical ventilation, or for hospital systems with more readily available chronic ventilator units.

By the time she quits her stultifying job assembling parts for ventilator units in this rust-belt Ohio township, she's started to drink.

The ventilator units are considered to be the least satisfactory part of the package but even then 58% considered the ventilators satisfactory.

Skilled nursing facility ventilator units (SNF) are a recent attempt to reduce the costs of an increasing number of patients who are in acute intensive care units and are not able to be liberated from ventilators.