a breathing device for administering long-term artificial respiration
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a protective mask with a filter; protects the face and lungs against poisonous gases
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Respirator \Res"pi*ra`tor\ (r?s"p?*r?`t?r), n. [Cf. F. respirateur.] A divice of gauze or wire, covering the mouth or nose, to prevent the inhalation of noxious substances, as dust or smoke. Being warmed by the breath, it tempers cold air passing through it, and may also be used for the inhalation of medicated vapors.
Police say Linares, 23, held off hospital workers at gunpoint, unhooked his son's respirator and cradled the boy until he died.
The girl was placed back on a respirator to relieve breathing problems she experienced Friday after fluid began collecting in her lungs and other parts of her body.
The victim, 40-year-old Marlene Warren, was in critical condition on a respirator at Palms West Hospital Saturday night.
He breathes with the aid of a respirator.
If an infant is not declared brain dead within seven days, he or she is taken off the respirator and allowed to die naturally without further consideration as a donor.
Georgia's attorney general supports a quadriplegic's request to turn off the respirator that keeps him alive.
He had one lung removed, and remained on a respirator, apparently comatose, until his death 27 months later.
He was semi-conscious by the afternoon and was attached to a respirator in the hospital's intensive care unit.
Six anencephalic infants were kept alive by respirator for a week under those guidelines, though none ultimately became an organ donor, said Loma Linda spokeswoman Anita Rockwell.
Ousted Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos has been placed back on a respirator and was listed in critical condition today because of a recurrence of pneumonia, hospital officials said.
With a friend's help, McAfee devised a method by which he could turn the respirator off himself.
Although he was breathing on his own Friday night, he was later put back on a respirator, said nursing supervisor Judy Russell.
There, she develops a staphylococcal infection and is put on a respirator.
After the meeting, Baroody wrote a memorandum to Pendergrass about the 48 months of delay on the respirator issue and similar delays on three other changes that had been recommended by Bush's task force.
A patient has a chance of surviving if a respirator is removed, she says, but cutting off food means certain death.
In her agitation, she didn't see the difference between temporary and permanent respirator therapy.
The legal ordeal is over for a father who disconnected his comatose son from a respirator and held him until he died, but the act of desperation reveals a gap in laws dealing with euthanasia, experts said.
He has been on a respirator since early Friday.
One of the Labor Department citations issued in 1979 imposed the $10,000 fine for "willful" violation of the respirator regulation.
"He had some emotional hang up," Stussy said. "I didn't realize it until today." Popowich testified Wednesday that he had no objection to taking Mrs. Stussy off the respirator, but said he did not want to do it personally.
If the infant is not declared brain-dead within seven days, Baby D will be taken off the respirator and will be allowed to die naturally.
The drug tests were performed at the State University of New York at Stony Brook on a 78-year-old man who had been declared brain-dead but who was being maintained on a respirator.
They have a right to live." Quadriplegic Larry McAfee, a 34-year-old Atlanta resident who waged a highly publicized court fight last year to win the right to shut off his life-sustaining respirator, said he is inspired by Ms. Langley's move.
The ruling said the decision whether to connect Eyal to an respirator would be left to the director of the hospital where the plaintiff is being treated.
It was a miracle." Middleswart's condition deteriorated somewhat and he was put on a respirator early today, a hospital supervisor said.
Tufeld said doctors believe the operation went well, but Izolda remains hospitalized and on a respirator.
He is breathing with the aid of a respirator, a hospital spokesman said.
Turrentine was found to have an accumulation of fluid in his lungs and was placed on a respirator.
However, the pressure and high concentrations can damage already weakened lungs. By reducing the time a patient is attached to a respirator, developers say, costs and mortality can be reduced.
Hospital officials had urged Crane for a year to permit them to turn off Leslie's respirator, but Crane would not because he feared his wife could then face murder charges.