Sentences with phrase «of ventilator»

Interested in a full - time role as a nursing assistant in a top - notch healthcare facility... Knowledge of ventilator patients Work History Nursing Assistant, 11/2004 to 09/2007 Aristocrat Berea

Patient Care Technician — Ogden Hospital, Ogden, Utah — 2007 to 2011 • Performed tracheotomy care, such as cleaning the stoma, changing tubing, suctioning, and ensuring proper settings and function of the ventilator • Placed catheters on both men and women as needed • Ensured proper nutrition and hydration by double checking meals with orders from the physician and delivering water regularly • Checked vitals on all patients every two to four hours as required • Maintained detailed and adequate electronic and written medical records

Injuries higher on the column can affect the whole body including use of the arms and even lungs requiring the use of a ventilator.

Those who are born under the condition of premature birth, brain hemorrhaging and those who are in need of a ventilator for more than a month are all in higher risk of having cerebral palsy.

[50]... removal of the ventilator is a necessary precondition to the administration of end - of - life palliative care and end - of - life palliative care is a necessary response to removal of the ventilator.

(Diana's favorite hat resembles the air - bag part of a ventilator, in its down position.)

Until they recover, these patients may breathe only with the help of a ventilator in a hospital's intensive care unit.

A judge ultimately ordered the Texas hospital to take the woman off of her ventilator in January to honor her family's wishes.

This means that if my baby were born tomorrow, she'd be in with a fighting chance of survival — albeit with the help of a ventilator.

Able to survive outside the uterus with the help of a ventilator.

The use of a checklist for CLABSI insertion practices was reported by the vast majority of hospitals (92 percent), while the use of a ventilator bundle checklist was reported by fewer hospitals (74 percent).

No one seemed to know why it was taking him so long to come off of the ventilator.

Your baby's lungs are capable of breathing air, but he or she would likely still need the assistance of a ventilator and would be in for quite a lengthy hospital stay.

The only sound in the hospital room is the steady hum of a ventilator pushing air into Lage Grigsby's lungs.

Respiratory therapist - Specialist trained in the use of ventilators, respiratory support, and oxygen therapy.

«While the big teaching hospitals have 5 - 6 units of ventilators that are electricity dependent and sensitive, the D - box can work on battery power for 8 - 12 hours.

This is especially true in a Pediatric hospital where often times one can be consumed by the sounds of ventilators, IV pumps beeping, and complex medical terminology.

Respiratory emergencies (including cases in which the use of ventilators is needed) Animals in need of blood transfusions Animals that are in shock

Handle responsibilities of providing artificial breathing — in the form of ventilators — to patients with breathing problems

Experienced in all processes of Ventilators, trach, ventriculostomy, G - tube J - tube colostomy, ilyostomy, urostomy, (diabetic, CHF, and HNT, with reinforced instruction according to case manager's planned care.

Not exact matches

«Our facilities care for a very frail population, many of our residents are on ventilators, require dialysis or oxygen, for example, and are the same type of individuals who would have been cared for by hospitals 10 to 15 years ago,» she said.

A slightly more sophisticated argument from defenders of the UK decision was that a ventilator is considered «extraordinary» medical treatment, and as such may be removed or withheld.

I've received moving notes in response to other pieces I've written on Charlie Gard — including from people who wondered whether, because of their decision to remove a ventilator for their child, they were guilty of euthanasia by omission.

What made the Charlie Gard case different is that the UK medical team, hospital, and courts insisted that he be taken off his ventilator — despite the ethical judgment of his parents, and despite the willingness of medical teams in the US and Rome to provide an experimental treatment.

They said Isaiah was in a low level of consciousness, could not move or breathe independently and was connected to a ventilator.

The comparison with the ventilator is familiar and suggestive, but I am inclined to agree with those who argue that there is a morally significant difference between the technology of artificial breathing and providing a patient with food and fluid.

When a ventilator is turned off from a critically ill patient for whom there is no hope of recovery, it is not claimed that the patient suffocated or was choked to death.

Camosy argues that the removal of Charlie's ventilator constituted an act of euthanasia.

Mr Conway said his current options are to «effectively suffocate» by choosing to remove his ventilator or to spend thousands of pounds travelling to Switzerland to end his life and have his family risk prosecution.

If you have the ventilator mode, use it for second half hour of baking.

But he swears he did nothing as brazen as shake the frail and ailing man who was on a ventilator and enmeshed in a thicket of tubes, and who did not awaken to the strange voice in his room.

Both Reid and Madeleine were on a series of different mechanical ventilators and other machines at the beginning, which helped keep them alive as they grew and got stronger.

She had a history of previous C - section, went against medical advice in choosing homebirth, ruptured her uterus, had her baby's life save and her life saved by a repeat C - section and lost her uterus and wound up in the ICU on a ventilator having received multiple transfusions.

She had lost a lot of blood and needed fluids, packed red blood cells, and to go on a ventilator.

Premature babies who were born before 26 weeks gestation, who have been on a ventilator or respiratory support for a long period of time and have chronic lung disease, or who have had a medically complicated journey, may have a harder time progressing to feeding by mouth.

Today is the anniversary of the day, 9 years ago, that the staff walked us through all my daughter's test results, and we decided to take her off the ventilator, and we baptized her.

Within arms» reach, they had suction, oxygen, a NeoPuff, a ventilator, an entire bag of intubation supplies and pharmaceuticals to aid in reviving him.

When I finally ended with «are you really more concerned that you — a fairly healthy 59 year old may have a few days of flu - like illness or that your newborn granddaughter could have influenza or pertussis, go to the NICU, require ventilator support, and ultimately die?»

Other neonatal outcomes that were assessed included a 5 - minute Apgar score of less than 7, a 5 - minute Apgar score of less than 4, neonatal seizure, ventilator support (of any duration), and admission to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).

We can place the tiniest of babies even on ventilators with all those lines and cables that she talked about.

While it will be hard to see your tiny bundle of joy hooked up to a ventilator, it's important to understand your doctor and their team is doing everything they can to provide the best care for your baby.

If so, are all staff trained on the types of care your child needs — ventilator care, catheter or tracheotomy care, g - tube or PICC line care, etc — or are only a few staff members certified to do these tasks?

In addition, care that may be routine to your family — such as trach care, ventilator care, g - tube and PICC line care — may be considered «skilled medical care» by respite care providers, and they may charge more for the services of a medically certified caregiver.

Babies born at 31 weeks may either require breathing support to ensure optimal supply of oxygen to vital structures of the body usually by a machine called ventilator.

And although it's not common, in severe cases the surgical insertion of a breathing tube in the neck (called a tracheostomy) may be done so the baby can go home on a ventilator.

Engineered mice with decreased numbers of 5 - HT neurons and rats or piglets with decreased activity secondary to 5 - HT1A autoreceptor stimulation have diminished ventilator responses to carbon dioxide, dysfunctional heat production and heat - loss mechanisms, and altered sleep architecture.43 These studies linked SIDS risk factors with possible pathophysiology.

Planned out - of - hospital birth also had a statistically significant association with higher rates for 5 - minute Apgar scores of less than 7, neonatal seizures, neonatal ventilator support, maternal blood transfusion, and unassisted vaginal delivery but with lower rates of both admission to neonatal intensive care units and obstetrical interventions, including induction and augmentation of labor, operative vaginal delivery, cesarean delivery, and severe perineal lacerations.

Battling the interference of 658 MPs, plus Peers, press and Royalty; coaxing and soothing his collaborator Pugin; fending of the mad schemes of a host of crackpot inventors, including Dr Reid and his Ventilator, and assaults from the egos of countless busybodies intent on destroying his reputation and coming in three times over budget and 17 years behind schedule, Barry eventually succeeded — after countless setbacks and rows which contributed to his death in 1860.

As a medic, he noticed that many patients in respiratory failure requiring ventilator support are unable to access it for reasons of cost and availability.

While conventional ventilators averagely cost $ 30,000 and low - cost alternatives (still in development) are to be sold for $ 3,000, the D - Box comes at an introductory price of $ 300.