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Ventilator stories:
3 Calif. children mauled by pack of escaped dogs
Feb 2nd, 2010 - Omaha
FONTANA, Calif. (AP) - Authorities say a pack of escaped dogs mauled three young siblings in California, leaving a 5-year-old girl in critical condition. Police Sgt. Jeff.
Baby Isaiah's fight for life in court's hands
Jan 27th, 2010 - Vancouver Sun
EDMONTON — Parents of baby Isaiah James May head back to court today to try to keep the three-month-old on life support. Doctors had wanted to disconnect him from a ventilator Jan.
Parents of brain-damaged baby win reprieve from ventilator disconnect
Jan 27th, 2010 - Vancouver Sun
EDMONTON — A severely brain-damaged infant who has become a medical cause-celebre around the globe will remain on life support for at least another few weeks, an Edmonton court ruled Wednesday.
Judge's decision delays Edmonton infant's removal from life-support
Jan 19th, 2010 - Vancouver Sun
EDMONTON — Three-month-old Isaiah James May will remain under care at an Edmonton hospital for at least one more week, after his parents succeeded in convincing a judge to temporarily block his doctors' decision to take him off life-support.
Teens Who Burned Boy May Be Tried as Adults
Oct 14th, 2009 - ABC News
Four Florida teens who allegedly doused a 15-year-old boy with rubbing alcohol and set him on fire could be charged as adults because of the "degree of cruelty" involved in the attack.
Ventilator videos from YouTube:
5:50ventilator type & modes part I
Description of Adult Ventilator type: pressure and volume) and modes: CPAP, SIMV and Assist Control.
0:50Terminal Choice - woman starting to struggle on ventilator
Terminal Choice - woman starting to struggle on ventilator
3:48Living On A Ventilator
How to live on a ventilator.
Ventilator from WikiPedia:
A medical ventilator may be defined as any machine designed to mechanically move breatheable air into and out of the lungs, to provide the mechanism of breathing for a patient who is physically unable to breathe, or breathing insufficiently. See also mechanical ventilation.
While modern ventilators are generally thought of as computerized machines, patients can be ventilated indefinitely with a bag valve mask, a simple hand-operated machine. After Hurricane Katrina, dedicated staff "bagged" patients in New Orleans hospitals for days with simple bag valve masks.
Ventilators are chiefly used in intensive care medicine, home care, and emergency medicine (as standalone units) and in anesthesia (as a component of an anesthesia machine).
In its simplest form, a modern positive pressure ventilator consists of a compressible air reservoir or turbine, air and oxygen supplies, a set of valves and tubes, and a disposable or reusable "patient circuit".
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