artificial respiration

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There is no treatment; doctors can offer only supportive care, such as hydration, artificial respiration or dialysis.

From Salon • May 9, 2026

Dr Abu Saada said the babies needed intensive care, life support equipment and artificial respiration.

From BBC • Nov. 11, 2023

Soon, the five — who were between a day and a month old — were taken to the intensive-care unit, where the three gravest cases were put on artificial respiration machines.

From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2020

He removed a blood clot from the wound and, straddling the president’s body, began to administer a crude form of artificial respiration, which he said revived Lincoln.

From Washington Post • Apr. 10, 2015

The system then in vogue was a means of inducing artificial respiration by inserting the pipe 594 of a pair of bellows into one nostril and closing the other.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" by Various