ventilator
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A ventilator can carry out a life-sustaining task, while accountability remains entirely with clinicians and hospitals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
"A ventilator came to a halt, but we do have a generator at the hospital."
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
The girl had to be resuscitated, admitted to hospital and put on a ventilator, and she was subjected to medical investigations and procedures.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Salcedo is now breathing with the help of a ventilator and has just a 15% chance of survival, said his father, Javier Salcedo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
An hour after the lights went out, disdaining Mammachi’s frightened pleading, little Ammu crept back into the house through a ventilator to rescue her new gumboots that she loved more than anything else.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
It's a mammoth task: The vast majority of the city's 20,500 licensed food carts -- selling pretzels, peanuts and ice cream -- rely on generators to power stoves, freezers and ventilators.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
Critical-minerals supply chains are far more complex than ventilators.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Does she wonder how the people hospitalized on ventilators or who lost loved ones feel?
From Salon ● May 11, 2026
Both say the 40 ventilators are in a shipping container, that they are not compatible with Wrexham Maelor's systems and were supplied at the start of the pandemic by the Welsh government.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
To the guards who walked up and down outside, each car became a single organism which ate and drank and excreted through its ventilators.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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