ventilator
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Garfield went on to spend 64 days — 31 of them on a ventilator — fighting to recover from COVID-19 at Providence St. John’s Hospital, where he was known as “Patient Zero.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
The boy suffered cardiac arrest when he was being transferred on the anaesthesiologist's shoulder, disconnected from the ventilator, she told local TVC television channel.
From Barron's • Jan. 14, 2026
They may require oxygen or intravenous fluid or even be put on a ventilator to help them breathe, according to the CDC.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2025
They are costumed as though you asked a coma patient, freshly awake after 20 years on the ventilator, to sketch these ladies from memory.
From Salon • Jul. 15, 2025
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
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