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Ventilator

A medical ventilator is a mechanical device that provides breathing assistance by moving air in and out of the lungs for patients who are unable to breathe on their own or are breathing insufficiently. Ventilators are commonly used in intensive care, home care, emergency rooms, and during anesthesia, and while modern ventilators are computerized, patients can also be ventilated using a simple hand-operated bag valve mask. Although sometimes called respirators, these machines are properly referred to as ventilators in modern medical terminology.

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Ventilator

A medical ventilator is a mechanical device that provides breathing assistance by moving air in and out of the lungs for patients who are unable to breathe on their own or are breathing insufficiently. Ventilators are commonly used in intensive care, home care, emergency rooms, and during anesthesia, and while modern ventilators are computerized, patients can also be ventilated using a simple hand-operated bag valve mask. Although sometimes called respirators, these machines are properly referred to as ventilators in modern medical terminology.

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A medical ventilator (or simply ventilator in context) is a mechanical ventilator, a machine

designed to move breathable air into and out of the lungs, to provide breathing for a patient who is
physically unable to breathe, or breathing insufficiently.
While modern ventilators are computerized machines, patients can be ventilated with a simple,
hand-operated bag valve mask.
Ventilators are chiefly used in intensive care medicine, home care, and emergency medicine (as
standalone units) and in anesthesia (as a component of an anesthesia machine).
Medical ventilators are sometimes colloquially called "respirators," a term which stems from
commonly used devices in the 1950s (particularly the "Bird Respirator"). However, in modern
hospital and medical terminology, these machines are never referred to as respirators, and use of
"respirator" in this context is now a deprecated anachronism which signals technical unfamiliarity.

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