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Quotes About Ventilator

In many patients, covid-19 causes a bilateral pneumonia affecting both lungs. Air sacs in the lungs become inflamed and filled with fluid, leading to breathing difficulties and low oxygen saturation. If the pneumonia becomes extremely severe, patients need to be intubated and put on a ventilator.
~ Leana S. Wen
Six things are requisite to create a "happy home." Integrity must be the architect, and Tidiness the upholsterer. It must be warmed by Affection, lighted up with Cheerfulness; and Industry must be the ventilator, renewing the atmosphere and bringing in fresh [vitality] day by day; while over all, as a protecting canopy and glory, nothing will suffice except The blessing of God.
~ Elizabeth George
Science can make a heart beat with ventilator, but there is only one power that makes it live, that is LOVE which is the purest form of FAITH.
~ Vikrmn, Guru with Guitar
In the silence that came between them, a breeze from a ventilator could be heard fingering the blinds.
~ Frank Herbert
Parler derrière le dos des autres est le ventilateur du couer.
~ Marjane Satrapi
Everyone gathered around this drink in order to devote themselves to their favorite activity: discussion. This discussion had its own purpose: To speak behind others' backs is the ventilator of the heart.
~ Marjane Satrapi
Spending one's final days in an ICU because of terminal illness is for most people a kind of failure. You lie attached to a ventilator, your every organ shutting down, your mind teetering on delirium and permanently beyond realizing that you will never leave this borrowed, fluorescent place. The end comes with no chance for you to have said good-bye or "It's okay" or "I'm sorry" or "I love you.
~ Atul Gawande
Thirteen minutes after I took him off the ventilator
~ Atul Gawande
If our esteemed colleague, Zungenschlag, does not find our room ventilated sufficiently, I should like to suggest that our esteemed colleague, Zungenschlag, have a ventilator set into his forehead.
~ Frank Wedekind
At 2:51 A.M. student engineer Tripp wrote in his log: "Night watchman Foersch reported to captain that he had just seen and smelled smoke coming out of one of the small ventilators on the port after side of the fiddley." The fiddley was a galvanized-iron duct supplying fresh air to the first-class writing room on B deck, among other rooms.
~ Gordon Thomas
was dark. He scooted over to the chair that his butt had graced so often he'd worn off the paint. The trach was in her neck, the way they did it for long-term usage, because, for among other reasons, it was easier to keep clean than when it was down the throat. The attached ventilator was pumping away, keeping her lungs inflated. The vitals sign monitor beeped away. One end of an
~ David Baldacci