How to Use ventilator in a Sentence

ventilator

noun
  • The patient was put on a ventilator.
  • He was placed on a ventilator for a while as Hennessy worked back from the surgery.
    Scott Thompson, Fox News, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Her daughter needed a week in the NICU and some time on a ventilator, too.
    Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Then, someone removes the tube from her ventilator and points it at the dessert, which blows it out.
    Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Heche had suffered burns that required the use of a ventilator to breathe.
    Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Who refused to send ventilators to blue states out of spite?
    Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 2 July 2024
  • Today, the 2-year-old breathes with the aid of a tracheostomy and ventilator as a result of a brain injury.
    Ashley R. Williams, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Mitchell survived the March crash but suffered a fractured neck and a broken leg and had to be placed on a ventilator.
    Faiz Siddiqui, Jeremy B. Merrill, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2023
  • On March 15, when she was admitted to the hospital for the last time, she was put on a ventilator.
    Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 12 July 2023
  • However, the new ventilator is still a work in progress.
    Ida Emilie Steinmark, Discover Magazine, 13 Jan. 2023
  • There’s her feeding tube and the ventilator that keeps her breathing at night.
    Joseph Shapiro, NPR, 8 June 2024
  • Fewer patients than in the Delta wave are so ill as to need a ventilator or high-flow oxygen.
    Eric Boodman and Isabella Cueto, STAT, 14 Jan. 2022
  • In September 2020, Sloan took a hit to the head during a game and was rushed to the hospital, where he was placed on a ventilator.
    Catherine Garcia, The Week, 31 Mar. 2022
  • But by Friday, nurses were able to take her off the ventilator.
    Vanessa G. Sánchez, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2022
  • In the days that followed, both of Chandler's lungs collapsed and she was placed on a ventilator, according to the page.
    Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Even the ventilator wasn’t going to keep her from dying.
    BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Seven people were taken to the hospital, and one of them is on a ventilator, the chief said.
    Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 29 May 2024
  • Soon after, the husband says, his wife suffered a series of seizures and was placed on a ventilator.
    Bycharles Piller, science.org, 27 Nov. 2022
  • The sisters then raced to the hospital, where their brother was on a ventilator.
    Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 25 Feb. 2023
  • For now, the focus is on getting him off the ventilator, according to Knight.
    Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Assouline is now paralyzed from the neck down and is on a ventilator.
    Olivia Lloyd, Sun Sentinel, 6 July 2022
  • At the hospital, Ms. Willis-Prater, who was 42 at the time, was connected to a ventilator that pumped air into her lungs.
    Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 28 May 2023
  • The mariachi legend died four months after suffering a fall that put him on a ventilator in the ICU.
    Daniela Avila, PEOPLE.com, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Patients using it can stay off a ventilator between four and 24 hours a day.
    Julie Washington, cleveland, 25 July 2023
  • Williams spent Christmas on a ventilator, while also hooked up to a web of wires and beeping sensors.
    Chris Ramirez, Journal Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Treatment with the drug also cut the number of days in ICU by 43% compared to placebo and days on a ventilator by nearly half.
    Katie Jennings, Forbes, 6 July 2022
  • The kids’ mother had gone into the hospital with covid and was quickly put on a ventilator.
    Anchorage Daily News, 8 May 2022
  • That could mean giving a scarce resource, like an ICU bed or a ventilator, to a person thought to be most likely to survive.
    Mollie Simon, ProPublica, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Emergency crews rushed her to another hospital, where she was placed on a ventilator and discharged after six days.
    Amanda Seitz, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2024
  • With Florida grasshopper sparrows, captive breeding is akin to putting a patient on a ventilator for life support.
    Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 18 July 2024

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