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An Overview Of Extended Ventilation Requirements Related To Comorbidities., Kaitlyn Horrell
An Overview Of Extended Ventilation Requirements Related To Comorbidities., Kaitlyn Horrell
The Eleanor Mann School of Nursing Undergraduate Honors Theses
Mechanical ventilation is a machine that that allows patients to breathe when they are unable to adequately do it themselves. This could be due to illness or injury. Ventilators pump oxygen into the lungs through a tube that travels through the trachea. When a patient is put on a ventilator, they will be placed in the Intensive Care Unit. While ventilation is typically a short-term intervention, some patients require ventilation for extended periods of time, and some may not come off the ventilator, eventually dying. Dozens of patients were ventilated in the ICU at Mercy, and most of them spent …