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
Liverpool icon Toshack previously spent two weeks on a ventilator in a Barcelona hospital after contracting Covid-19 and pneumonia.
From BBC • Mar. 25, 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
I’d end up back in the ICU, by the whooshing ventilator beside his bed, and I’d be no closer to knowing.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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