This year, a sudden virus threatens the lives of most people. For the treatment of coronavirus, a ventilator is an essential machine. Day by day, as the number of coronavirus deaths soars, we see more clearly that many of us will not survive this storm. In the most serious cases, breathing become
The ventilator uses “positive pressure” to blow air into the lungs through a tube inserted into the patient’s nose or mouth and moved down into the airway. Longer-term ventilation can involve the tube being introduced through the windpipe. Patients generally exhale on their own, but sometimes the ve
What is a ventilator? Simply put, a ventilator takes over the body’s breathing process when the disease has caused the lungs to fail. This gives the patient time to fight off the infection and recover.