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What a Ventilator Actually Does
from Emergency Broadcast - Corona Call-Ins #2 · #2
1 min
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John explains what a ventilator is, how it breathes for a patient, and how it buys time for the lungs to heal, sometimes ending in death if the lungs don't recover.
- A ventilator is a machine that helps breathe for a patient when someone is too sick to breathe on their own.
- The ventilator gives a patient's body and immune system time to recover from infection, especially in the lungs.
- If lungs don't heal, a patient can remain on the ventilator until death.