How to Use ventilator in a Sentence

ventilator

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  • The patient was put on a ventilator.
  • He was placed on a ventilator for a while as Hennessy worked back from the surgery.
    — Scott Thompson, Fox News, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Her daughter needed a week in the NICU and some time on a ventilator, too.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Then, someone removes the tube from her ventilator and points it at the dessert, which blows it out.
    — Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Heche had suffered burns that required the use of a ventilator to breathe.
    — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Today, the 2-year-old breathes with the aid of a tracheostomy and ventilator as a result of a brain injury.
    — Ashley R. Williams, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Mitchell survived the March crash but suffered a fractured neck and a broken leg and had to be placed on a ventilator.
    — Faiz Siddiqui, Jeremy B. Merrill, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2023
  • On March 15, when she was admitted to the hospital for the last time, she was put on a ventilator.
    — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 12 July 2023
  • However, the new ventilator is still a work in progress.
    — Ida Emilie Steinmark, Discover Magazine, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Even the ventilator wasn’t going to keep her from dying.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Soon after, the husband says, his wife suffered a series of seizures and was placed on a ventilator.
    — Bycharles Piller, science.org, 27 Nov. 2022
  • The sisters then raced to the hospital, where their brother was on a ventilator.
    — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 25 Feb. 2023
  • For now, the focus is on getting him off the ventilator, according to Knight.
    — Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 5 Jan. 2023
  • At the hospital, Ms. Willis-Prater, who was 42 at the time, was connected to a ventilator that pumped air into her lungs.
    — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 28 May 2023
  • Patients using it can stay off a ventilator between four and 24 hours a day.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland, 25 July 2023
  • That could mean giving a scarce resource, like an ICU bed or a ventilator, to a person thought to be most likely to survive.
    — Mollie Simon, ProPublica, 7 Sep. 2022
  • The rule of law, democracy’s oxygen, is on a ventilator.
    — Mark A. Cohen, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
  • In order to leave the house with Lennie, Ashlee and Clint have to bring an oxygen tank — there are four lined up in the living room — to take the place of the home ventilator that pumps air into her lungs.
    — Gina Kolata Kim Raff, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Scarring becomes a concern when someone has been on a ventilator for a week or more, Dr. White added.
    — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2023
  • He was placed on a ventilator and remained in the intensive-care unit at a San Diego hospital.
    — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Peyton Hillis is no longer on a ventilator, per his girlfriend.
    — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Medical experts say the next step is to get Hamlin, who is still sedated and on a ventilator, to breathe on his own.
    — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 4 Jan. 2023
  • The 26-year-old underwent brain surgery after the shooting and spent roughly a month on a ventilator, police said.
    — Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 28 July 2023
  • The girl required a ventilator at the hospital but survived.
    — Dallas News, 15 Feb. 2023
  • People with poliomyelitis may remain wheelchair-bound or unable to breathe without the help of a ventilator for the rest of their lives.
    — Dr. Céline Gounder, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2022
  • She was taken to a nearby hospital, where she was placed on a ventilator.
    — Azadeh Moaveni, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
  • None of the treatments decreased the mortality rate over 28 days or the need to start ventilator therapy.
    — Verywell Health, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Although those wounds are considered serious, he's said to be off a ventilator, and able to speak.
    — CBS News, 14 Aug. 2022
  • The 24-year-old was initially placed on a ventilator but was discharged from the hospital nine days later.
    — Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 10 Feb. 2023
  • He was rushed to the pediatric intensive care unit, where he was sedated and placed on a ventilator.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 15 Dec. 2022

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