Sentences with phrase «on a ventilator»

The one - year survival rate for patients on dialysis was 50 percent in 1995 and 95 percent in 2013; survival for patients on a ventilator was 49 percent in 1994 and 94 percent in 2013.

He was placed on a ventilator for a few days until he could breathe on his own again, but he did not regain full consciousness.

«Use of sedation protocol does not reduce time on ventilator for children.»

After doctors were unsuccessful in removing fluid from her lungs, FoxNews reports that Murrieta was put on a ventilator.

The committee wrote that patients receiving the intervention spent less time on the ventilator and were more likely to be able to walk when they left the hospital.

Worked with nurses and doctors in critical care units monitoring patients while on the ventilator.

He was placed on a ventilator in an open incubator and began the fight for his life.

Even babies on ventilators can receive kangaroo care.

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

She was on ventilator support.

In a statement ahead of the hearing, he said he is now dependent on a ventilator for up to 23 hours a day and only has movement in his right hand, head and neck.

What I want to know is why Christians who reject science will push for their brain dead relative to be kept on a ventilator, a medical device (i.e. Science), why are the most religious states the ones where the most people use antidepressants?

If a baby is still on a ventilator at 36 weeks after conception, the condition is considered BPD.

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.

Garrett needed to be on a ventilator at pressure levels that had reached the maximum, and he was not improving.

Tommy was run over by a car in the Bronx, NY, was killed and then came back to life, and then he was resurrected, so to speak, in the ICU and CCU, he spent 3 weeks on a ventilator, but during that time he had crossed over and went through a tunnel of light, and met Ascended Masters in Heaven.

Noel Conway, 67, has motor - neurone disease - he can not walk and is reliant on a ventilator.

I was the most critically ill person in the hospital, on a ventilator providing 90 % oxygen.

Unfortunately, the next day I was rushed back to intensive care as my lungs had overloaded with fluid and I was back on the 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.

All will become locked - in eventually, and 5,000 to 6,000 each year are at the point where they must decide whether to spend the rest of their lives on a ventilator, unable to speak, or to refuse it and let themselves die.

«The goal of this study was to determine the effects of mechanical ventilation - induced activation of the autophagy / lysosomal system on ventilator - induced diaphragm mitochondrial dysfunction,» Smuder said.

VAP also increases: the amount of time patients remain on a ventilator — from 7.6 to 11.5 days on average — and; length of hospital stay — from 11.5 to 13.1 days on average.

One of every 10 patients on a ventilator gets VAP, which is fatal about 13 percent of the time.

If the child is supported through this period — if he is tube - fed, provided with oxygen, and placed on a ventilator if breathing becomes difficult — he will eventually return to the state he was in prior to the disorder.

even though half of untreated babies with this form of SMA ordinarily die or end up on ventilators before their first birthdays.

«We see kids on ventilators, with asthma, obesity, and closely - monitored diabetes.

Simon went into respiratory failure in 2010 and was accidentally placed on a ventilator during an emergency procedure.

He was given CPR on the way to the ER, put on a ventilator, and he regained his pulse about an hour later.

Physicians were able to stabilize her, and within a few hours, she was on a ventilator in the intensive care unit.

But I felt that at the time my newborn who was on a ventilator with a hole in his lung fighting to live needed me.

Dr. Edward Reichman, a leading expert and lecturer in the field of medical ethics stated that according to Jewish ethics «If a person's life is dependent on the ventilator, the decision to take them off the ventilator would be equal to homicide» Dr. Reichman further stated to The Jewish Star that «The overwhelming majority of rabbinic authorities maintain that it would be prohibited to remove the respirator, if that would lead to the individual's death.»

This time though I wasn't as poorly as before, and communicating by writing, I asked for my pump again and started expressing while still on the ventilator.

I have treated severe cases where patients have been in intensive care on a ventilator.

After two days on the ventilator, I was able to wean her off.

It's strange that they're declared her dead (as opposed to brain dead) while on a ventilator.

Life expectancy is three to four years and physical degeneration is fairly rapid and eventually leads to complete paralysis, at which point he will have to be placed on a ventilator.

However, the protocols did not appear to decrease time on the ventilator or reduce short - term mortality.

Putting premature babies on ventilators to get oxygen into their bodies has mixed results, Mychaliska says.

Although the success rate is not great for any pet needing to go on a ventilator, it is always great when we are able to save one.

These studies examined the impact of SBML on clinical skills, including management of ICU patients on ventilators; catheter insertion; lumbar puncture (spinal tap); laparoscopic surgery; and communicating with a chronically ill patient about goals of care.

This has implications for health care in countries with a Zika virus epidemic as a proportion of those affected with Guillain - Barré syndrome will need breathing support on a ventilator for a while, and some cases do not recover fully from the syndrome and are left with disability.»