artificial respiration

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

From BBC • Nov. 11, 2023

By the mid-1950s, however, artificial respiration was possible through the use of machines that filled the lungs with air, oxygenating the blood and thereby keeping the brain and heart working on.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 2021

“I had a patient just now who needed artificial respiration, and I had none available,” Dr. Rodríguez said.

From New York Times • May 15, 2016

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

Another experiment was this—opening the windpipe of a poisoned mule after the heart stopped, inserting a pair of bellows, and starting artificial respiration.

From The Pathless Trail by Friel, Arthur O. (Arthur Olney)