Alfie survived with the assistance
of artificial ventilation.
Not exact matches
CPR essentially consists
of a pattern
of chest compressions and rescue breaths (i.e.
artificial blood circulation and lung
ventilation) and is intended to maintain a trickle
of oxygenated blood to the brain and the heart and thereby extend the otherwise brief window
of opportunity for successfully restarting the heart without permanent brain damage.
Figure 3: Low - Carbohydrate Diets Reduce Blood Levels
of Carbon Dioxide Investigators fed twenty adult patients requiring
artificial ventilation a standard or low - carb, high - fat diet through a feeding pump.
Nevertheless, for healthy individuals who do not require
artificial ventilation, dietary carbohydrates may support the activity
of vitamin K, which activates certain proteins by adding carbon dioxide to them.
In the light
of the dispute as to Charlie's future treatment the NHS Foundation Trust for Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, where Charlie has been an in - patient since October 2016, issued an application in the Family Division
of the High Court on 24 February 2017 seeking a declaration that it was lawful and in Charlie's best interests for
artificial ventilation to be withdrawn and for his treating clinicians to provide only palliative care for him.