Of about 100 patients with pneumonia, 15 required ventilators to help breathe, the Army said.
Infant inflammation : Extremely premature infants are often placed on mechanical ventilators to help them breathe.
Over the last 50 years I have become all too familiar with various types of ventilators.
The governor of Rio de Janeiro sent 15 mechanical ventilators, Agencia Brasil reported.
They have to manage medications, change dressings on wounds, and even monitor and operate medical equipment, from home dialysis to mechanical ventilators.
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Kukral said she did not know how common it is for pneumonia cases among the military to require the aid of ventilators.
The hospital had no power, no water, food was running out and nurses were bagging patients by hand because ventilators didn't work.
My tiny daughter was too young to breathe on her own, too young for steroid shots to strengthen her lungs, too young for ventilators.
Two of the babies were on ventilators, or breathing tubes, in the hours after their birth, but those tubes were removed Monday night, Gupta said.
Another is minimizing the time patients are on ventilators, removing sedation once a day in order to assess whether patients are ready to be weaned.
With only a minimum of electricity generated by diesel generators to run monitors, ventilators and other medically necessary equipment, a skeleton crew has kept watch over the hospital.
These injuries, which may require treatment with ventilators or surgery for bowel ruptures, are caused by the rapid changes of pressure in explosions, before shrapnel even hits victims, he said.
At hospitals large and small, raising the head of the bed for patients on ventilators, brushing patients' teeth and taking other precautions have dramatically reduced ventilator-associated pneumonia, another common and costly infection.
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But they often remain in the NICU for months, where they can develop infections from intravenous lines delivering fluids and nutrition, or lung disease associated with ventilators getting air into their lungs.
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The closing of borders would deny access to many items made abroad that are needed during a pandemic, including masks and gloves, electrical circuits for ventilators and communications gear and certain pharmaceuticals and their precursors.
The partial injury (there are no ventilators for rats, so the researchers could not completely sever the cord without killing them) allowed only one side of the diaphragm to work and the rats had trouble breathing.
The doctors and nurses at his hospital, working heroically, moved 215 patients, including infants on ventilators whose lungs were kept working with hand-operated plastic bags, to other hospitals like Mount Sinai Medical Center four miles north.
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Four were placed on ventilators.
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The national stockpile has sufficient ventilators, but the necessary circuits that are needed to operate them are not produced in the United States but in Mexico, so having them come across to this country is critical for taking care of critically ill patients in the United States.
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