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Mechanical ventilation
Simply put 'ventilating' or breathing for the patient 'mechanically' . These machines are getting more and more sophisticated and have a lot of settable and measurable data points.
Dr. Sanjay Agarwal reviewed this
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Would an elderly demented person be admitted into icu and put on mechanical ventilation.?
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My father is in ICU under mechanical ventilation because of pneumonia and severe COPD. Anything we can do? IAnything I can suggest to his doctors?
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