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2. Artificial ventilation - Wikipedia

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   Artificial ventilation or respiration is when a machine assists in a metabolic process to exchange gases in the body by pulmonary ventilation, external respiration, and internal respiration. [1] A machine called a ventilator provides the person air manually by moving air in and out of the lungs when an individual is unable to breathe on their own.

3. Mechanical ventilation - Wikipedia

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   The machine creates a negative pressure around the thoracic cavity, thereby causing air to rush into the lungs to equalize intrapulmonary pressure. The Greek physician Galen may have been the first to describe mechanical ventilation: "If you take a dead animal and blow air through its larynx [through a reed], you will fill its bronchi and watch ...

4. Negative pressure ventilator - Wikipedia

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   In most NPVs (such as the iron lung in the diagram), the negative pressure is applied to the patient's torso, or entire body below the neck, to cause their chest to expand, expanding their lungs, drawing air into the patient's lungs through their airway, assisting (or forcing) inhalation. When negative pressure is released, the chest naturally ...

5. Iron lung - Wikipedia

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   In her interview, she reported that she was having problems obtaining replacement parts to keep her machine working properly. [54] On March 11, 2024, Paul Alexander of Dallas, Texas, United States, died at the age of 78. He had been confined to an iron lung for 72 years from the age of six, longer than anyone, and was the last man living in an ...

6. Doctors Say This Is How You Can Loosen and Clear Mucus From ...

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   Try using a humidifier to “maintain humidity levels between 35-45% in your home.” He also suggests using an air purifier with HEPA filter “to remove allergens and irritants,” and keep your ...

7. Ventilator - Wikipedia

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   Ventilators may be computerized microprocessor-controlled machines, but patients can also be ventilated with a simple, hand-operated bag valve mask. Ventilators are chiefly used in intensive-care medicine, home care, and emergency medicine (as standalone units) and in anesthesiology (as a component of an anesthesia machine).