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    Gift of life  Dec 2, 2008
    She was on a ventilator for five weeks and needed oxygen for nearly a year. "She was kept alive by regular transfusions and Louise said she is grateful to the donors who donated," said her mother Louise Abbott. (BBC News -- UK)

    Burn victims show dramatic improvement during holiday  Dec 2, 2008
    Carla was taken off the ventilator and listed in fair condition as of Monday evening ... Lance, who received third-degree burns to his hands and arms and second-degree burns on his face, remains on a ventilator, but his blood pressure and pulse rate are stable. (Lompoc Record, CA)

    Alexa Rohrbach, 11, courage touched lives  Dec 2, 2008
    Most recently she underwent a tracheotomy and was placed on a ventilator. Relatives say Alexa s spirit remained strong despite the surgeries, setbacks, therapies and finger pricks. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

    Galveston-area hospitals still swamped by hurricane  Dec 2, 2008
    Mileski says: "Everybody focuses on the first hour, which is very dramatic, but that's just 1% of trauma care. These are people who are going to be in intensive care units for weeks, sometimes on a ventilator for months. You have to have all that ready, in addition to having specialists available.". Most of the hospital's trauma patients are injured in industrial accidents and car wrecks, he says. (USA Today)

    On his own terms, everyday  Nov 30, 2008
    But lungs aren't made for ventilators ... There he fought, and won, the right to unplug his ventilator, hoping to donate parts of his body. (OregonLive, OR -- News)

    Pioneering windpipe surgery saves twins - Exclusive  Nov 29, 2008
    When the nurses cleaned her ventilation tube out, they'd have to turn the ventilator off for a couple of seconds. "She would absolutely panic every time. On one occasion they thought she was ready to come off the ventilator. "But she got very upset, her airways collapsed and she arrested ... She came off the ventilator within days and moved off intensive care soon after. (Mirror.co.uk)

    Boy dies after car sinks in pond  Nov 28, 2008
    Dylan Dusinberre (DO-sin-berry) was found floating in the pond minutes after the Nov. 18 crash in the town of Manchester in western New York and was placed on a ventilator. He died early Thursday at a hospital in Rochester. (Auburn Citizen, NY)

    From a brain injury, a blessing  Nov 28, 2008
    Ronald Roberts, his face drawn and his eyes fixed on his son, recounted the 55-minute period between when Corey first was removed from the ventilator and when he began breathing normally on his own. That was scary, to have to sit there and yell at him to breathe, he said, then mimicked the gasping noises his son made. (Utica NY Obserer, NY)

    A new struggle for Parker senior  Nov 28, 2008
    As of Wednesday, he was unable to move his legs and was relying on a ventilator to breathe, his father said. His son's attitude "has been back and forth.". (Florida Times-Union)

    Court authorises euthanasia for first time in SKorea  Nov 28, 2008
    The Seoul Western District Court ordered feeding and ventilator tubes to be removed from the 75-year-old woman identified only as Kim, saying she has no chance of recovery. The landmark ruling acknowledged an individual's right to die for the first time here, but rekindled debate on euthanasia. (Yahoo! Asia News)

    Bartlett brags on nurse nominees  Nov 27, 2008
    According to Cathy Carter, Bartlett's chief nursing officer, Thibodeau has developed many patient protocols including ventilator care and sepsis protocols. "A very highly skilled nurse, Therese has all of the qualities you would want in a nurse assigned to care for your family members," Carter said. (Juneau Empire)

    More of this story  Nov 27, 2008
    When the emergency surgery was performed, Manning was going into heart failure and was on a ventilator. Although several attempts were made to take him off the ventilator, he couldn t come off ... Manning came off the ventilator but it was short-lived. (Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, OK)

    Stop smoking drug concerns raised  Nov 26, 2008
    " 'Suicidal tendencies' After several days on a ventilator, Karen McGhee pulled through. She is convinced it was Champix which led to her suicide attempt. She said: "I'll never put myself through that again and never put my family through it again. I'll always be a smoker, or, if I quit, then I'll quit naturally. (BBC News)

    "God Has Other Plans"  Nov 25, 2008
    "I knew, him sitting there on a ventilator, it didn't look good.". "Apparently a lot of the doctors were thinking I wasn't going to make it...From the first night when they evaluated me...20 percent survival rate and everything, but God had other plans.". (WKRC.com, OH)

    Driver in fatal snowmachine crash had been drinking  Nov 22, 2008
    She was in critical but stable condition and hooked up to a ventilator to help her breathe, he said. "I guess we're finally realizing there was an amazing amount of injury," he said. (Anchorage Daily News)

    Hope for Rabies Victims: Unorthodox Coma Therapy Shows Promise  Nov 22, 2008
    Doctors are currently weaning the teen off the ventilator, he says, and they are working to control his convulsions. Willoughby warns, however, that Menezes may fare worse than Giese because he received a partial course of the vaccine. (Scientific American)

    Cirignano pleads not guilty in Nagle death  Nov 22, 2008
    Nagle was left without any use of his body from the shoulders down after being stabbed and had to use a ventilator to breathe during the past seven years. He spent months in rehabilitation hospitals in Boston, Atlanta, and Braintree before returning to live at his home. (Weymouth News, MA)

    Donald Driver: Dad is 'a tough cookie'  Nov 22, 2008
    "We take allegations such as these very seriously and will conduct a thorough investigation into the matter and be transparent in our findings, whatever the conclusion, Hurtt said in a written statement Friday. 11 NEWS Donald Driver spoke publicly about his father for the first time since he was hospitalized. Investigators from HPD S internal affairs division spent hours in his hospital room on Thursday. Driver, the father of NFL star Donald Driver, was arrested on outstanding traffic warrants... (KHOU.com, TX)

    For Isle artist Peggy Chun, life was a party to the end  Nov 21, 2008
    The electrical cord powering her ventilator ran between two of the beer coolers ... Yesterday, as were her wishes, Chun was taken off the ventilator that had breathed for her for the past five years ... A big decision was whether to go on a ventilator. (Honolulu Advertiser)

    Injured NFL player's dad questioned by HPD  Nov 21, 2008
    He was on a ventilator and couldn't speak until Thursday. He told relatives what happened by writing on paper towels. (KHOU.com, TX)

    NFL player's dad hospitalized after alleged police beating  Nov 20, 2008
    He still can't speak because he has a ventilator down his throat, but relatives said he wrote down on paper towels what happened to him. 11 NEWS. (KHOU.com, TX)

    Gene Chips Accurately Detect Pneumonia In ICU Patients On Ventilators  Nov 19, 2008
    18, 2008) Even seasoned doctors have a difficult time diagnosing pneumonia in hospitalized patients breathing with the assistance of a ventilator ... Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report they have validated the use of gene chip technology to rapidly and accurately detect pneumonia associated with ventilator use in hospitalized patients ... While more testing is needed among larger patient groups, their work suggests gene chips may lead to early, more... (Science Daily)

    Watching the 1lb 6oz baby growing up  Nov 18, 2008
    Other setbacks included broken ribs suffered when Kaven was taken off a ventilator and two fractured legs which his mother and medical staff believe may have been sustained when his nappy was being changed. He also suffered a bleed on the brain. (BBC News -- Health)

    • Tiny Idaho infant struggles for survival  Nov 18, 2008
    Tiny Idaho infant struggles for survival POCATELLO, Idaho - An eastern Idaho infant who weighed 1 pound, 4 ounces when she was born late last month is improving and could be taken off a ventilator next week, family members say. The girl was born Oct. 23, 10 weeks early, at the Portneuf Medical Center. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)

    Helping hands and hearts: Ronald McDonald House's anniversary  Nov 18, 2008
    A ventilator has kept him alive while he grows strong enough to endure corrective surgery to lower the spleen to the proper location, which should take place soon. "Yesterday was the first time the doctor said 'home' about Jared," Good said. (Florida Times-Union)

    Hasidic boy in legal fight over life support buried  Nov 17, 2008
    NY Daily News Home Delivery. Get the latest News, Sports and Gossip delivered to your home. (New York Daily News)

    Brain-dead boy at center of controversy dies  Nov 17, 2008
    Parents clashed with hospitalHis parents, who are Orthodox Jews, had clashed with the hospital over the hospital's desire to disconnect the ventilator. Although Motl had been pronounced dead, his heart was still beating with the help of a cocktail of intravenous drugs and adrenaline. (MSNBC -- Politics)

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    8 pounds and doctors expect to remove her from the ventilator next week. "She's a little fighter. She really wants to be here," Pratt said. (Pocatello Idaho State Journal, ID)

    Boy Whose Religious Parents Battled Hospital Dies  Nov 17, 2008
    NEW YORK -- A 12-year-old New York boy with brain cancer has died after his family battled a hospital to keep him on a ventilator. The lawyer for the Orthodox Jewish family said Motl Brody's bodily functions ceased Saturday. (Click2Houston, TX)

    Would you want to give birth at home?  Nov 15, 2008
    Did your midwife come to your house with a ventilator ... Did your midwife come to your house with a ventilator ... The baby was declared a vegetable and died 7 months later after his ventilator malfunctioned. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

    Mechanical Ventilation in Acute Lung Injury  Nov 13, 2008
    Conclusions As compared with the current standard of care, a ventilator strategy using esophageal pressures to estimate the transpulmonary pressure significantly improves oxygenation and compliance. Multicenter clinical trials are needed to determine whether this approach should be widely adopted. (New England Journal of Medicine)

    Premature baby a blessing for March of Dimes ambassadors  Nov 12, 2008
    Dayne was expected to have breathing difficulty, but he never had to go on a ventilator. He spent only 10 days in an oxygen cannula. (Brookhaven Daily Leader, MS)

    Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Reports Financial Results for the First Half Ended September 30, 2008  Nov 10, 2008
    However, sales for the eVent Medical Inc. declined because of delays in the redesign of artificial ventilators that they sell ... The Group also recorded an operating loss of 249 million yen in the first half since aggressive investments were continuously made to grow the eVent Medical Inc.'s artificial ventilator business. (JCN Network, Japan)

    Hurt, uninsured immigrant workers face repatriation  Nov 9, 2008
    Torres was comatose and connected to a ventilator. He was also a legal immigrant whose family lives and works in the purple alfalfa fields of this southwestern town. (Boston Globe)

    Barack Obama Wins Historic Victory  Nov 9, 2008
    The grant will allow Ranken Jordan to purchase an LTV 1150 ventilator to provide for its in-patient program ... The LTV 1150 ventilator will be used to provide necessary care for Ranken Jordan patients who need a ventilator to breathe due to lung difficulties ... The ventilator will also be used for the rehabilitation of patients with breathing problems caused by unforeseen accidents or other ailments. (Saint Louis Front Page)

    Boy, 3, on Life Support After Tick Bite  Nov 8, 2008
    Matthew was transferred to Mater Children s Hospital in South Brisbane, Australia, where he was sedated and put on a ventilator. He s not out of the woods, but he is getting better, Williams said. (Fox News)

    Mechanism That Allows 2 Pacemakers To Control Breathing Pieced Together  Nov 8, 2008
    Doctors can now keep patients who are in respiratory care safer with a new kind of ventilator. Ventilator oxygen is completely dry and needs to be. (Science Daily)

    Hospital Seeks to Pull Plug on Brain-Dead Boy, 12  Nov 7, 2008
    The hospital is seeking a court order that affirms its plan to disconnect the boy from a ventilator and to discontinue intravenous medications that keep his heart beating. The parents' attorney says doing so would infringe upon religious freedom. (Fox News)

    Court Battle Ensues Over Brain Dead 12-Year-Old  Nov 6, 2008
    Washington - The Children's National Medical Center is seeking a court order that would allow the hospital to disconnect a 12-year-old boy from a ventilator and end the medications that keep his heart beating. The hospital says the boy is brain dead. (ABC 7 News, DC)

    Opening statements begin in Roozrokh trial  Nov 4, 2008
    Human organs are only viable for harvesting between 30 minutes and one hour after a person dies, and court records show Navarro, who was being kept alive by a ventilator, didn't die after being removed from life support. He died about eight hours after being taken off the ventilator. (Santa Maria Times)

    Harnessing The Power Of The Brain  Nov 3, 2008
    He didn't want to live on a ventilator, so nine years ago he recorded this message for his two sons ... "Scott, I understand that earlier in the progression of this disease you said that, at the point you had to go on a ventilator you didn't wanna go on anymore, but today you are on a ventilator. And I'm curious about what changed your mind?". (CBS News)

    Surgeon faces trial in organ donation case  Nov 3, 2008
    Ruben Navarro, who had multiple medical problems, died in a San Luis Obispo hospital after a heart attack, then was taken off a ventilator and prepared for organ donation. The circumstances surrounding that death will be center stage in opening statements scheduled to begin Monday in the trial of Dr. Hootan Roozrokh, a San Francisco transplant surgeon who is accused of hastening Navarro's death so his organs could be harvested. (MSNBC -- Crime)

    Duranko still fighting, gives hope to the living  Nov 1, 2008
    His lungs are weak so he has to breathe oxygen through a tracheotomy tube and use a ventilator at night. His legs -- they're tree trunks, really -- are pretty much useless now, which makes it awfully hard for his wife, Janet, to get him to the bathroom and back. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)

    Prague medical misadventure a lesson in the pitfalls of travellers' insurance  Oct 31, 2008
    He was on a ventilator for a week. On Oct. 14, Dr. Malleson was brought home on a Lear jet; on board was a nurse and respiratory therapist, but no ICU physician as Dr. Stewart says she had been told. (Globe and Mail -- National)

    * Experimental anti-anesthesia drug beats standard treatment, study says  Oct 30, 2008
    A nerve stimulator attached to one hand was used to monitor how quickly the patient recovered the use of muscles and could breathe well enough to be removed from a ventilator, as is routinely done in surgery. This story has been viewed 339 times. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)

    Deputy was finishing shift when cruiser jumps median in Wellington striking van, killing driver  Oct 30, 2008
    Deputy Geral Ramirez, 30, was taken to Wellington Regional Medical Center, where he briefly was on a ventilator. He had just finished his work shift in Boca Raton, spokesman Pete Palenzuela said. (The Palm Beach Post)

    Dengue claims 7th life  Oct 29, 2008
    By Tuesday afternoon, she had lost consciousness and the doctors contemplated putting her on a ventilator ... "The doctors said her condition was very serious. But before she could be put on the ventilator she died," said councillor of ward number 93 Ratan Dey, who visited the hospital. (Times of India)

    Friends rally to aid man paralyzed in freak accident  Oct 29, 2008
    Although paralyzed from the shoulders down and on a ventilator the rest of his life, he is able to talk through a special valve in the ventilator and he blows into a straw to control his wheelchair. His spirits are way better than what we expected, Waite said. (Mason City Globe-Gazette, IO)

    Stidd family remains optimistic during recovery  Oct 28, 2008
    November 2006: Stidd is weaned off his ventilator and can breathe on his own December 2006: Stidd begins twice-daily rehabilitation, including speech and motor skills therapy Dec. 25, 2006: Stidd spends his 21st birthday confined to bed Feb. 1, 2007: Stidd speaks first word since accident: Mom Nov. 13, 2007: Torsell is sentenced to more than five to eight years in prison Dec. 1, 2007: Stidd moves back home to Huntingdon after 14 months in the hospital Sept. 12 2008: Smith s family files a... (Daily Collegian, PA)

    Sharon the 'Lion' Between Life and Death  Oct 28, 2008
    Gissen says that he is not reliant on a ventilator, but that sometimes at night an oxygen mask is placed across his face to help him breathe. He is fed intravenously and only a handful of people are allowed to visit him. (ABC News)

    How To Cut Health Care Costs  Oct 27, 2008
    Shortly after Christopher Parks' father died, as a result of a severe lung disease, Parks' mother sat down to pay a $20,000 bill for her husband's ventilator use. Lucky for her, Parks, co-founder and CEO of Change:Healthcare, a technology firm that promotes transparency in health care, and a co-author of My Healthcare Is Killing Me, realized that Medicare had wrongly flagged the invoice as a workers' compensation claim and denied it. (Forbes)

    Short lives revealed  Oct 27, 2008
    Surgery presented a terrible risk: that a complication would require the baby to be placed on a ventilator where she could live indefinitely, but perhaps in more pain. The doctors recommended that Heling's code status be changed to DNR.. (San Diego Union-Tribune)

    As life ebbs, healing music flows  Oct 26, 2008
    Over the sounds of the ventilator pushing out oxygen, Hollis played the harp. The music seemed to ease out words and stories from Harmon's family. (Boston Globe)

    Surgery at birth fixes tiny Noah's tummy  Oct 26, 2008
    Once the silo was removed, the skin was closed up and all the tubes and ventilator were removed. Ms Hammond and her partner Matt Smallman, 22, finally got to hold their baby when he was seven-days old. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)

    E-nose can 'sniff' out deadly bug  Oct 25, 2008
    It is being tested on intensive care patients on ventilators who are at risk of contracting pneumonia from the very equipment helping them to breathe ... Patients given artificial breathing are most at risk of contracting Ventilator Acquired Pneumonia (VAP) ... The consultant in charge of critical care at the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, Chris Roberts, said: "The problem is the patient on a ventilator needs to be sedated and have a tube pushed down their nose and by being sedated they are... (BBC News -- Health)

    USD coach to celebrate victory over leukemia  Oct 25, 2008
    He was put into a drug-induced coma, placed on a ventilator and transferred to the intensive-care unit. A healthy oxygen-saturation test typically scores in the high 90s to the 100s. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Sports)

    Teen still recovering  Oct 23, 2008
    Her daughter can now squeeze her hand or wiggle her toes when asked, but she's still on a ventilator and cannot speak or write. The teen doesn't yet know her boyfriend didn't make it, Angie said, and she said she won't tell her until she's doing better. (Odessa American, TX)

    Blood Donors Save Tulsa Boy's Life  Oct 23, 2008
    He had to stay on the ventilator for 23 days. The bad part was he was going through chemotherapy so he wasnt able to carry oxygen to his body. (FOX23.com, OK)

    Listeria agony described  Oct 23, 2008
    "I had to make a choice whether to have my mother put on a ventilator, which really scared me," Gosselin's affidavit says. "I really thought she was going to die that day.". (Toronto Star)

    In Charli Anna's name  Oct 22, 2008
    Charli Anna was taken off of the life support machine after three days but remained on the ventilator for several more days ... Soon after, the baby ended up back on CICU on a ventilator. (Park Hills Daily Journal, MO)

    Police arrest man suspected of shooting Jaguars' Collier  Oct 20, 2008
    The 26-year-old was on a ventilator for two weeks and endured infections, bouts of pneumonia and renal failure. He has no recollection of the shooting. (USA Today -- Sports)

    One year later: Reclaiming their lives  Oct 20, 2008
    Booth said she was particularly concerned about daughter Alexis, now 16, who relies on a ventilator and is largely paralyzed because of cysts on her brain stem and spine. The fire destroyed the Booths' home and the equipment for their pump-servicing company. (San Diego Union-Tribune)

    McCain and abortion 'health' rules  Oct 18, 2008
    A child that breathes through a ventilator is still a child. Ac child that takes nourishment through the mother is still a child. (MSNBC -- Politics)

    Priyaranjan Dasmunsi's condition stable: Doctors  Oct 18, 2008
    The minister was taken off the ventilator and his vital parameters, including blood pressure and heart rate are stable. His blood sugar is under control, kidneys are functioning normal and urine output is also normal, he said. (India Times, India -- Community News)

    State releases raw-milk report  Oct 18, 2008
    "She's still not doing well. She is still ventilator-dependent," Marler said of Tardiff ... where she was placed on a mechanical ventilator ... She remained on the ventilator until Sept. 16, more than three months after developing symptoms. (Daily Triplicate)

    Unassuming heroine saves mother's life  Oct 17, 2008
    I fell down and the next thing I knew I woke up on a ventilator at BMC (Bogalusa Medical Center). I had died. (Bogalusa Daily News, LA)

    Meyers in need of a break  Oct 17, 2008
    Doctors removed McKenney's ventilator and he has been breathing on his own. He was scheduled to move out of ICU and into the general hospital. (Fresno Bee -- Sports)

    Get Moving: New Research Shows Early Mobility Better Than Bed Rest For ICU Patients  Oct 17, 2008
    A systematic review by Needham and colleagues found that across 24 studies, focused on ICU patients with sepsis, prolonged mechanical ventilation and multiple organ failure, 46 percent of 1,421 patients had neuromuscular dysfunction that was associated with extended use of mechanical ventilation and longer stays in the ICU. Other studies Needham reviewed showed that early physical medicine and rehabilitation therapy, while patients are on life support in the ICU, can safely allow patients to get... (Science Daily)

    Local driver John Westbrook recovering slowly  Oct 16, 2008
    He was taken off the ventilator last weekend and began eating solid foods on Monday, after five weeks of a popsicle diet. Hes packing it away, said his father on Tuesday afternoon. (Carlisle Sentinel, PA)

    Dasmunsi shows no clinical improvement: Doctors  Oct 16, 2008
    However, the 62-year-old minister was taken off the ventilator and his vital parameters including blood pressure, heart rate are stable. His blood sugar is under control, kidneys are functioning normal and urine output is also normal, he said. (India Times, India -- Community News)

    Priyaranjan Dasmunsi stable but still on respiratory support  Oct 14, 2008
    He was put on a ventilator. This was his second heart attack in three months. (India Times, India -- Community News)

    I&B minister Dasmunsi continues to be critical  Oct 14, 2008
    "His blood pressure, pulse rate and respiration have been recovered. But he is still on ventilator," Dr Behl said. 62-year-old Dasmunsi was admitted to AIIMS on Monday with complete left ventricular failure of the heart. (India Times, India -- Community News)

    Dasmunsi still on life support in AIIMS  Oct 14, 2008
    He is currently on a ventilator at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences ... He was put on the ventilator. (NDTV.com)

    P R Dasmunsi admitted to AIIMS; condition serious  Oct 13, 2008
    Doctors looking after him said his condition was serious and he had been put on a ventilator. This is the second time in three months that Dasmunsi has suffered a heart attack. (India Times, India -- Community News)

    Tragic illness couldn't take away a Metairie boy's childhood, but a tragic accident took his life  Oct 13, 2008
    For nearly three years, little Owen Bushland bravely battled a myriad of congenital heart defects -- ailments that required open-heart surgery, the insertion of a pacemaker, a tracheostomy and dependence on a ventilator. Through it all, his mother, Leah Bushland never once asked "Why?". (Nola.com -- Sports)

    Dasmunsi admitted to AIIMS  Oct 13, 2008
    Doctors said his condition is serious and he has been put on ventilator. "He had a complete left ventricular failure of the heart when he was admitted," said AIIMS spokesperson Y K Gupta. (Sify.com, India)

    Smeaton Is 'Stable' After Alert  Oct 13, 2008
    He is unconscious and on a ventilator. Smeaton shot to fame after attempting to foil the Glasgow airport attack last June. (Glasgow Daily Record)

    'Miraculous recovery' for six-year-old boy rescued from ditch  Oct 13, 2008
    Phillip Baehne of Central Point says his son, Luke, was removed from a ventilator on Friday. Doernbecher Children's Hospital in Portland has upgraded his condition from critical to serious. (KGW Northwest NewsChannel 8, OR)

    John Smeaton's fiance on her prayers for the sick hero  Oct 12, 2008
    " John was yesterday said to be in a "serious but stable" condition. Sunday Mail doctor Gareth Smith said: "It must have been a very severe attack if he's in intensive care, where he will be on a ventilator to pump oxygen into his lungs. " Smeaton met Christy at a Scottish Society event in New York last September. Speaking about her, he said: "Christy is the best thing that has ever happened to me. (Glasgow Sunday Mail)

    Assault charges are filed against Mt. Lake man  Oct 10, 2008
    The complaint stated that Khekitisack is alive with the aid of a ventilator and there is swelling of the brain. Authorities from the Mt. Lake Police Department and Cottonwood County Sheriffs Department were called to an alley behind 1310 Third Ave. in Mt. Lake at 5:40 p.m., Thursday. (Mt. Lake Observer/Advocate, MN)

    Early Mobility Best for ICU Patients  Oct 10, 2008
    This leads to less time on a ventilator and a shorter stay in the ICU, he said. According to Needham, hospitalized soldiers in World War II were encouraged to move about as a means of getting them quickly back to the battlefield. (MEDLINEplus)

    Hospitals recognized for organ donations  Oct 8, 2008
    Potential donors are identified by characteristics such as their levels of consciousness, being on a ventilator and having had neurological incidents such as severe strokes or head injuries. When a team of physicians and nurses identifies a patient who may become a donor, a call is made within an hour to Gift of Life of Michigan, which determines the medical eligibility of patients and talks with families about donating a family member's organs. (Kalamazoo Gazette, MI)

    Respiratory illness kills woman in Southeast  Oct 8, 2008
    VIRUS: One other victim on ventilator in an Anchorage hospital ... A respiratory illness likely caused by a virus circulating on Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska has killed one person and put another on a ventilator in an Anchorage hospital, the state Division of Public Health said Monday ... Seven of the 32 cases were severe enough to warrant medevacs to hospitals in surrounding communities, including one patient who was taken to Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage to be put on... (Anchorage Daily News)

    Health officials investigate respiratory illnesses, death  Oct 8, 2008
    ANCHORAGE - A respiratory illness that health officials say likely was caused by a virus circulating on Prince of Wales Island has killed one person and put another on a ventilator in an Anchorage hospital ... ANCHORAGE - A respiratory illness that health officials say likely was caused by a virus circulating on Prince of Wales Island has killed one person and put another on a ventilator in an Anchorage hospital ... One patient was flown to Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage and put on a... (Juneau Empire)

    Make a Living Will Part of your Pla...  Oct 7, 2008
    Mechanical respiration (ventilator). Antibiotics. (Suite101.com)

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