ventilator

One of the trialled drugs caused her to stop breathing, and she had be put on a ventilator.

Yusuf's family called on the trust to ensure families were told that when their children were on a ventilator they may still be able to hear them, and should be encouraged to interact with them.

They are costumed as though you asked a coma patient, freshly awake after 20 years on the ventilator, to sketch these ladies from memory.

If the power went out completely, dozens of patients, particularly those dependent of ventilators, would "be in immediate danger and face certain death", the hospital added.

"I saw him on the ventilator, his chest going up and down as he was breathing, and it was like 'Get up! Open your eyes'."