ventilation
Alternative term for breathing.
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She was transferred to the ICU of hospital C for assisted ventilation (Table 2). Kirchner summarized the purposes of tracheotomy as a means to "bypass obstruction in the supralaryngeal or laryngeal airway, to provide access to the lower respiratory tract to clear it by suction or to provide mechanically assisted ventilation. We should never start an intervention, whether antibiotics, assisted ventilation, or feeding tubes, that we are not willing to discontinue. |
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