ventilation
Alternative term for breathing.
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a flexible reservoir bag connected by tubing and a non-rebreathing valve to a face mask or endotracheal tube and used for artificial ventilation. Artificial ventilation during nighttime might be needed. The author presents the historical, legal and medical background of this "new death" as a consequence of the medical technology of artificial ventilation, but brain death was primarily a medical-legal construct to facilitate organ transplantation, which requires that vital organs be perfused in a living body just before harvesting. |
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