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What happens after one is taken off a ventillator?
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It depends: If the ventilator is removed because patient has recoved from the breathing problem, then it is the right thing to do an dpatienty usually recover. But if it removed because there is no chance of recovery, then patients are unlikely to survive.
Answered 3/2/2013
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