Definition of “ventilator”

A friend of my friend was involved in a bad car crash, which resulted in a protracted hospital stay on a ventilator.

A physician trained in the use of a ventilator should also be trained to diagnose brain death.

Alarms beep constantly as traces record heart rate, breathing, oxygen level and blood pressure, while ventilator pipes gently vibrate.

Daphne was hooked up to a ventilator at all times with wires trailing her everywhere.

George, practical as usual, pushed one of the tables to the wall directly under the ventilator.

He needed a respirator after the operation, but his doctors said using a ventilator was normal tracheotomy procedure.

The former care worker, known only as Miss B, was taken off her ventilator and died peacefully in her sleep.

`Killed them with that thing, through the ventilator grills in their houses.

`Maybe we can use the ventilator for another purpose," said Nancy.