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
Li, who suffers from a genetic degenerative condition that progressively weakens muscles, relies on a ventilator permanently connected to his windpipe to breathe, but grows celery with the help of his 62-year-old mother.
From Barron's • Jan. 29, 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
One of the trialled drugs caused her to stop breathing, and she had be put on a ventilator.
From BBC • Sep. 30, 2025
Billy Pilgrim was lying at an angle on the corner-brace, self-crucified, holding himself there with a blue and ivory claw hooked over the sill of the ventilator.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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