ventilatory
Americanadjective
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Of the 10 people who were infected, eight experienced hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, five required intensive care with ventilatory support, and three died.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2025
She knows and accepts that she would need to be weaned off ventilatory support before she was able to live outside the unit - it remains her goal to try.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2023
At Providence, one of only three hospitals in a city of about 300,000 residents, officials have developed and enacted procedures to ration medical care and treatments, including dialysis and specialized ventilatory support.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2021
“They might be putting him on some other form of noninvasive ventilatory support,” she said.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2020
Her dress, too, was quite new—a neat blue serge fresh from the dressmaker's hands; her boots were blacked and bright, her stockings guiltless of ventilatory chasms.
From Seven Little Australians by Ethel Sybil Turner
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