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What does a ventilator do?
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Ventilator: A machine that provides assistance with breathing. And in some cases breathes for the ill patient, when they are unable to.
Answered 8/5/2015
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Ventilator: It is a machine that breaths for you or helps you breath when you cannot do so yourself due to critical illness.
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