Term:Ventilator
Related terms
Normative
Variants and synonyms
- Ventilation
- ventilate
- ventilator-free
- mechanical ventilation
- invasive mechanical ventilation
- non(-)invasive ventilation
Examples
Avoid disconnecting the patient from the ventilator, which results in loss of PEEP, atelectasis and increased risk of infection of health care workers.
Source: WHO-2019-nCoV-clinical-2021.1-eng.pdf
Collocations
- ventilator management
- ventilator protocols
- ventilator strategies
- ventilator capacity
- ventilator support
Keyness
- ventilator: 545
- ventilation: 43
- ventilate: 80
- ventilator-free: 246
- mechanical ventilation: 4
- invasive mechanical ventilation: 25
- non(-)invasive ventilation: 51
Note
The variants listed above are far more often used in the corpus compared to the "ventilator".
Research
Variants and synonyms
- mechanical ventilator
Definition/description
In some cases, COVID-19 causes severe pneumonia, which requires respiratory support and can lead to death, especially in the presence of co-morbidities such as diabetes 30 or hypertension. Patients with severe pneumonia need to be treated in ICUs with the use of mechanical ventilators.
Source: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.17.20037788v1
Examples
The imperative need to treat a large number of patients affected by SARS-CoV-2 has motivated the consideration of a reliable, fail-safe, and easy to operate mechanical ventilator that can be produced quickly on a massive scale.
Source: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.24.20042234v1
Keyness
>1000
Press
Examples
Officials revealed that if hospitals pushed past capacity, patients would be given a score to determine whether or not they're placed on a ventilator.
Keyness
>1000
Comments
Examples
But your perspective changes when it's you who's been on a ventilator or your parent dies of covid because someone else wanted to exercise they're free will.
Source: unknown
Keyness
700