They can't breathe on their own and are on ventilators.
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Theo was despondent and struggling to breathe on his own.
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Eventually, they can't walk, feed themselves or breathe on their own.
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He can circular breathe on a tenor saxophone for 45 seconds.
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Have you ever wanted to feel a dragon breathe on your wrist?
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Soon, each was strong enough to breathe on his or her own.
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The invasive species can breathe on land and crawl like a snake.
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Call me crazy, but I'd kinda like to breathe on my wedding day.
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This was not the case for Warmbier, who could breathe on his own.
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The kids will breathe on you, and that only really goes one way.
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I'll use the cliche and say the songs were able to breathe on Mama.
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At times, she was able to breathe on her own, but not for long.
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Those who survived longer would likely not walk, eat or breathe on their own.
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Just days after the surgery, Chelsea started to eat, talk, and breathe on his own.
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They were 10 weeks premature and neither could suck, swallow or breathe on their own.
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My patient would never breathe on his own again, but he didn't know it yet.
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Doctors desperately need ventilators, or machines that help people unable to breathe on their own.
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When he was unable to breathe on his own they supported him through mechanical ventilation.
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"It's not worth wasting anyone's breathe on it right now, it's not gonna happen," Friedman said.
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Basically, you breathe on the bag and a green symbol appears if you're ok to drive.
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Don't step on anything, don't touch anything, don't breathe on any instruments, that's the obvious stuff.
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He's able to breathe on his own and communicate with his family, according to the outlet.
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"Breathe on each punch," Ms. Hammond said, as they practiced side by side in the mirror.
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Within a week, he was in a medically induced coma, unable to breathe on his own.
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Ventilators, simply put, are machines that help people breathe when they can't breathe on their own.
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We cannot say whether your son will ever breathe on his own or look at you.
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Soon he could not breathe on his own, and a tube was inserted in his trachea.
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Gard was born with a rare genetic condition and cannot move or breathe on his own.
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"This will be the last time I waste my breathe on that little piglet Farrah," she began.
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Like any whale, the narwhal needs to surface to breathe — on average, every four to six minutes.
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" She also says that she knows a piece is done when, "it can breathe on its own.
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Heroin and fentanyl caused him to stop breathing, but he learned to breathe on his own again.
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Perhaps most terrifyingly, the fish -- which can grow up to 3 feet long -- can breathe on land!
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"You can breathe on it the wrong way, and it will be completely off," Rodriguez told Insider.
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She is currently in ICU on a ventilator awaiting to see if she can breathe on her own.
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Let's be real: Do we have any idea what's in the air we breathe on a daily basis?
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Chelsea healed quickly, and was able to eat, talk and breathe on his own after just ten days.
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"She couldn't feed herself, she got to the point where she couldn't breathe on her own," Mell added.
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That means pure oxygen; the air we breathe on a regular basis is only about 292 percent oxygen.
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"He would breathe on me — and sometimes take a deep inhale, like he was smelling me," she recalled.
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By the time she got to the ER, she could no longer talk or breathe on her own.
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Her 78-year-old father, Ernest Quintana, had lung disease and was struggling to breathe on his own.
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It's really just condensation -- the same thing that creates moisture when you breathe on a window, for example.
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Not quite a year old, Charlie Gard cannot see or hear, or move or breathe on his own.
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They can breathe on their own for longer, and they develop scoliosis less frequently thanks to stronger back muscles.
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Last weekend, in full knowledge of the risks involved, I nevertheless allowed two small children to breathe on me.
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The young man preparing our desserts would breathe on those desserts, as would the woman handing them to me.
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This car is stiff, stripped, and designed for people who actually want to let it breathe on a race track.
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Thus, the economy may be able to breathe on its own, rather than relying on lower rates from the Fed.
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He eventually lost the ability to move his arms and legs or breathe on his own and began experiencing seizures.
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I've always seen it as the older, wiser and less inhibited sister to "Breathe on Me" (another of Britney's greatest).
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His formulation would have rendered a much broader population of patients, including those who could breathe on their own, dead.
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But it took nearly two weeks for her lungs to clear enough to allow her to breathe on her own.
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She was unable to breathe on her own, and lacked both blood flow to the brain and neural electrical activity.
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The 27-year-old mother of 2 went into cardiac arrest and is reportedly unable to breathe on her own.
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The most grievously ill may need to remain on the machines for weeks until they can breathe on their own.
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She says it can also be helpful to picture your breathe on a bell curve as you're inhaling and exhaling.
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"He would stand behind you really closely and breathe on your neck," the first female pastry chef alleged to the outlet.
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"I just want my baby to be healthy, have all her toes, be able to breathe on her own," says Chyna.
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He can breathe on his own now, but his lungs are fragile; a chest cold could put him back in the hospital.
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"I just want my baby to be healthy, have all her toes, and be able to breathe on her own," says Chyna.
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Doctors said that Isaiah is unable to move or breathe on his own, and did not respond to stimulation, the BBC reports.
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Working to Breathe On exam, the patient's breathing and heart rate were high and his oxygen level was low – a bad combination.
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He was unable to breathe on his own, had "bleeding on his brain" and had no brain activity, according to court documents.
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It was sporadic progress, but since the first week, he's been able to breathe on his own, without help from a machine.
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He accidentally suffocated her by kneeing her in the back as she laid faced-down unable to breathe on the cafeteria floor.
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Some infected children would spend weeks inside giant machines called iron lungs, since polio made them unable to breathe on their own.
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Rami Abdulrahman, the Observatory's director, told Reuters that the Islamic State operative was seriously wounded and struggling to breathe on his own.
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Ventilators can help some of the most seriously ill COVID-19 patients who start losing the ability to breathe on their own.
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Even people in great shape can notice it's more difficult for them to breathe on days when air pollution levels are high.
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Quick-thinking Frazier used modified chest compressions for approximately nine minutes before the baby was able to breathe on his own, authorities said.
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Stone, who has limited movement of his limbs and is no longer able to breathe on his own, had a tracheotomy last December.
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The couple's son, Abdullah Hassan, is reportedly suffering from a form of hypomyelination and is no longer able to breathe on his own.
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Patients can also opt for lifesaving treatments — except when their hearts stop or they can't breathe on their own, precluding resuscitation or ventilators.
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If he survived until the delivery, his inability to breathe on his own after birth would ultimately be the cause of his death.
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He spent five days on life support before he was able to breathe on his own and recover with the help of steroids.
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The cost to business is in any case a secondary issue, as anyone struggling to breathe on the streets of Beijing quickly discovers.
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For patients with ALS who could no longer breathe on their own, I have provided breathing support through complex breathing machines called ventilators.
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Julianna had a rare, aggressive form of the disease, which slowly took away her ability to walk, eat or even breathe on her own.
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Two days after that, the patient could breathe on his own and his only symptoms were an intermittent dry cough and a runny nose.
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However, in the weeks since the shooting, Ventura has reportedly made incredible strives in his recovery, including being able to breathe on his own.
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He was taken off life support this week, but has continued to breathe on his own, causing his parents to renew their legal challenges.
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But Alfie has continued to breathe on his own, prompting his parents to seek a court order allowing the family to seek experimental treatment.
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Julianna had a severe form of the disease, which caused her to slowly lose her ability to eat, walk or even breathe on her own.
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So they put him on a machine because he can't breathe on his own yet and he's in this plastic box; it keeps him warm.
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However, in some babies who can't breathe on their own, the cord should be cut immediately to allow effective ventilation to be performed, it says.
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On the other, you've got children who have lost the ability to breathe on their own, and exhibit complete paralysis in their arms and legs.
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If the edge strips don't show up, Apple's says they should clean the display and then have a user breathe on it to create humidity.
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On the other, you've got children who have lost the ability to breathe on their own and exhibit complete paralysis in their arms and legs.
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"Until this morning, we heard he had no consciousness and was unable to breathe on his own but his life can be saved," Suh said.
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Gabriel was diagnosed with a host of lung problems, including bronchopulmonary dysplasia, which makes it hard for him to breathe on his own, Michot said.
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Now, months after the accident, Jon is able to breathe on his own and can eat puréed foods without the help of a feeding tube.
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But Barrett writes with a warmth and humor that lift the story free of its historical sources and allow it to breathe on its own.
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Novichok is believed to directly affect the brain's respiratory centers, and considerable time may pass before a patient can breathe on his or her own.
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Already in deep distress, the patient was rushed last week to a hospital in Northern California, severely ill and unable to breathe on her own.
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He was given little chance of survival, and when he beat those odds, doctors told him he would never walk or breathe on his own.
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Feeling that her life holds only suffering and degradation, she wants to die right away, although she can still eat and breathe on her own.
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She's unable to breathe on her own and on a respirator in the intensive care unit at Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba, near Tel Aviv.
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Ten-year-old Danny Agee was rushed to the hospital on Easter, unresponsive and unable to breathe on his own, his father Joey Agee told CNN.
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But when she held her baby close, determined that she would leave the world knowing she was loved, Ellis inexplicably began to breathe on her own.
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That was the hope many felt when a video of Eric Garner gasping "I can't breathe" on a New York City sidewalk went viral in 2014.
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Crisp, clear, and expressive as always, her control is perfect, and it's nice to hear her giving her idiosyncrasies room to breathe on these starker versions.
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Suddenly he realized that the arguments and social criticism he wanted to assert, complete with their nuance and exceptions, could live and breathe on their own.
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You were told that Sam could not breathe on his own, although no one ever asked whether you approved his being hooked up to a ventilator.
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They'll then saddle the glorified prop with their massive ambitions, even if the car might just fall to pieces if you breathe on it too hard.
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After surgery to try to remove some of the mucus in her lungs, she had to be intubated because she could no longer breathe on her own.
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He's unconscious and unable to breathe on his own, said an official from the Seoul National University Hospital, who didn't want to be named citing office rules.
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Something that has room to breathe on the tip of a finger, which even replicated in a blown up photo, I have to squint to make out.
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Brackin said that some patients are even going to the hospital early, such as women about to give birth or people who can't breathe on their own.
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Whenever we turned down the breathing machine to see if he could breathe on his own, his eyes widened in panic until we turned it up again.
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She was being admitted now because, too weak to breathe on her own, she required a special pressurized face mask to force each breath into her lungs.
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In March, Jaiden was put in an induced coma because the stiff skin was compressing his chest wall, to the point where he couldn't breathe on his own.
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In the most serious cases, coronavirus patients lose the ability to breathe on their own and require a ventilator, which pumps air in and out of the lungs.
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You've got to be sure that the baby can breathe on its own and eat on its own and walk on its own and grow on its own.
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Now that his mother can no longer breathe for him, there is, the genetic counselor gently tells you, little chance that he will ever breathe on his own.
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During his three-month stay in the ICU, Thomas had to learn to breathe on his own again while he and Anne Thomas adjusted to their new reality.
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Lacking nervous system stimulation, the muscles soon begin to weaken, twitch and waste away until individuals can no longer speak, eat, move or even breathe on their own.
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She was hospitalized for 221 days, until her lungs could breathe on their own, her heart could beat steadily, and her body no longer needed a feeding tube.
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Charlie has a rare genetic disease and resulting brain damage that has left him without the ability to move his arms and legs, eat or breathe on his own.
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She has been in and out of hospitals for much of her young life and has slowly lost the ability to walk, eat or even breathe on her own.
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If you use a device at night for sleep apnea, make sure it remains away from where people could cough, sneeze and breathe on it, and clean it regularly.
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On Friday, General Motors announced it will lend its auto factories to support Ventec Life Systems' production of ventilators, which are for patients who cannot breathe on their own.
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Cara Fraser said she was nervous to post about the time she was placed in a medically-induced coma for seven days because she couldn't breathe on her own.
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Then, the lambs were removed from the ventilator and all but one, which was developed enough to breathe on its own, were euthanized so the researchers could examine their organs.
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With only one superior athlete, Kawhi Leonard, Popovich had too many players who couldn't keep up with, who could barely breathe on (much less contain) Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant.
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Health officials have warned that hospitals are experiencing major shortages of equipment, including masks to protect front-line workers and ventilators to treat patients unable to breathe on their own.
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It'll take a few more years to wean him off the tracheostomy so he can breathe on his own completely, she said, but the surgery gave him a great start.
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Because the disease affects the nerve cells in the brain and spine that control muscle movement, patients slowly lose their ability to speak, eat, walk and breathe on their own.
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In another recent case, an Israeli flight attendant has been unable to breathe on her own after experiencing a dire complication of measles: inflammation and swelling of the brain, called encephalitis.
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Last year's semi-finalist Coco Vandeweghe said flu symptoms left her struggling to breathe on court during the American's 7-6(4) 03-2 opening round defeat to Hungarian Timea Babos.
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But he recently had his tonsils and adenoids removed, allowing him to breathe on his own and freeing him from the array of medical equipment that was hooked up to him.
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I remember dozens of dinner conversations in which he'd excitedly describe difficult cases of inserting emergency airway tubes into patients that arrived at his ER, unable to breathe on their own.
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Julianna had a rare, aggressive, incurable form of Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease, a degenerative neuromuscular disease that slowly robbed her of her ability to walk, eat or even breathe on her own.
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"Long term, those patients could end up on ventilators and be attached to a breathing machine for quite some time until their lungs heal enough to breathe on their own," he said.
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The same ignorant things were said about a horseless transportation future in the 19th century, where people imagined not being able to breathe on something that went as fast as a train.
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In interviews with The New York Times, Mr. Smit said that he could no longer "breathe" on his property and had decided to sell the occupied part to the Stellenbosch municipal government.
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There is not much air on Mars — the atmospheric pressure there is less than one one-hundredth of what we breathe on Earth — but what little is there has baffled planetary scientists.
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Yet until a cure is found, we must continue to provide high-quality noninvasive ventilation devices and support to those patients who wake each day knowing they can't breathe on their own.
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She built a different kind of machine-learning model, for instance, that makes recommendations to doctors about when to remove their patients from a ventilator and allow them to breathe on their own.
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Doctors immediately put her on an iron lung, a mechanical respirator that uses negative air pressure to push air in and out of the lungs in patients who can't breathe on their own.
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Indeed, today is the day that Britney felt a stirring moment of nostalgia and decided to throw it all the way back to "Breathe On Me" from her 2003 album, In The Zone.
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The doctor came back in and told me there was a shortage of beds and since my symptoms were not severe (I could breathe on my own), they were letting me go home.
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I could breathe on my own, a common enough feat among newborns, except that my parents' first child, a boy who arrived too early and spent a single day on earth, could not.
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Outside, the two of us wandered in a daze through the financial district until we found a place to sit down and breathe, on a curb in the courtyard of an office building.
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" Klinger says that late last week, Frost went off her ventilator for a sustained period of time: "She was able to breathe on her own for six hours and that is a big accomplishment.
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Gard, who is a British citizen, was born with a rare genetic condition known as encephalomyopathic mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome (MDDS), which makes him unable to breathe on his own, according to media reports.
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The Kardashians live and breathe on social media ... but in the 12 hours plus since Rob and Blac Chyna's engagement not a single tweet, Instagram post or Facebook update about the news. Zilch. Snapchat?
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We should note that, of course, Officer Jobbers is in critical condition tonight, and a great sign that he has begun to breathe on his own, and our prayers are with his family and him.
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According to the Mayo Clinic, because the disease affects the nerve cells in the brain and spine that control muscle movement, patients slowly lose their ability to speak, eat, walk and breathe on their own.
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According to the Mayo Clinic, because the disease affects the nerve cells in the brain and spine that control muscle movement, patients slowly lose their ability to speak, eat, walk, and breathe on their own.
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These babies are too frail and weak to breathe on their own; they often lack a lining in the lungs known as surfactant that keeps tiny air spaces called alveoli from collapsing with each exhalation.
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On the way to the ruins, tilting my head to breathe on the right, the view reminded me of the Delaware Water Gap in the Poconos, the dark green mountainside towering against the bright blue sky.
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I'm so sick I can hardly sit up, I'm trying not to breathe on anybody, but every so often I try to bounce a funny line off the table to see if he'll even register me.
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"Today's traditional air pollution monitoring methods include only annual traffic data, which doesn't reflect the day-to-day changes residents see and breathe on their local streets," BreezoMeter's CTO Emil Fisher said in a press release.
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"Crowded public transport where people can breathe on each other may also lead to transmission of infection," Tang says, echoing public-health advice that, while widespread, may not be getting as much emphasis as hand-washing.
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As hospitals prepare for a flood of desperately ill patients unable to breathe on their own, mechanical ventilators have become the single most important piece of equipment that can mean the difference between life and death.
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Charlie had a rare genetic disease, infantile onset encephalomyopathy mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome (MDDS), which resulted in brain damage and left him without the ability to move his arms and legs, eat or breathe on his own.
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If a patient is in a coma, their doctor will also check for signs of brain death, including irreversible brain and brainstem damage, an inability to breathe on their own, and, again, a lack of pupil response.
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Mr. Singh was shot in the cheek and the bullet exited through the back of his head, leaving him with an anoxic brain injury and unable to breathe on his own, according to the medical examiner's report.
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So parents should ask the dentist what level they're aiming for and what emergency measures will be taken should, for example, moderate sedation become deep and a child can no longer breathe on his or her own.
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The air is just like the air we breathe on Earth–20 percent oxygen, 80 percent nitrogen–so we don't have the flammability concerns that we have in Apollo or Skylab, which have a much higher oxygen level.
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As for what's next, Gradian is working on distributing a second product this fall: a critical care ventilator, which helps patients who can't breathe on their own, and usually requires a power supply and a wall gas supply.
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An Alaskan firefighter who survived a 100-foot fall off a ladder in June 2017 has made a miraculous recovery in the eight months since his accident, which initially left him unable to talk and breathe on his own.
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The odorless tiny particles that slip unnoticed into the air we breathe on our pavements, playgrounds and gardens are the result of the sheer volume of vehicles constantly chugging around the city, often with just one person in them.
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This was the late 1990s and early 2000s, when 56k modems were fast — nearly a decade before social media gurus would shed their gills and learn to breathe on dry land, where they've pretended to be human ever since.
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Once a guitarist for former Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth, Becker has continued to compose music since he was diagnosed with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, which took away his ability to move and breathe on his own.
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For the last three months, Craig Hardy, a 52-year-old father of three, has been unable to move, speak or breathe on his own after coming down with a rare neurological disorder when he returned from a visit to Indonesia.
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Once the tube was removed from his lungs, once he could breathe on his own again, once he knew he would survive the failing heart and collapsed lung that hospitalized him for weeks, Kevin Payne headed home with much trepidation.
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Yesterday, in honor of Saye and the other 78 people currently confirmed to have died in the fire, Tate Britain put one of the works from her recent series Dwelling: in this space we breathe on view in its galleries.
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"A lot of the pollution that we breathe on the streets around us, and the hotspots, are caused by diesel vehicles in London," says Gary Fuller, the King's College scientist who developed the London Air Quality Network of monitoring stations.
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Roughly 80% of coronavirus cases are mild, but 14% are severe — patients have trouble breathing — and 5% are critical, meaning patients are unable to breathe on their own or experience organ failure, according to the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
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"My coresidents and I are feeling like we're being drafted, and terrified that we'll have to intubate or manage vents," she said, referring to medical interventions for patients who cannot breathe on their own, which are not typically performed by doctors in her field.
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That's ample time for an unsuspecting infected person to kiss you, sneeze on you, breathe on you, shake your hand, open the same door, use the same faucet, take the same cruise, touch the same toilet flusher, travel in the same train, bus or plane.
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"We were told by a neurologist and another doctor that Calen is never going to eat on his own again, he'll never breathe on his own again, and he'll be stuck in a vegetative state the rest of his life," Caleb's dad, Ben Clausen, told the station.
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Her dancers filled the stage a few minutes later, and for the third tune, Britney lip-synched "Breathe on Me." She had never released the song as a single, so it was shocking for her to perform it at a pop concert, a genre dependent on hits.
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There has been no end to the creepy descriptions of the snakehead fish, a slimy, toothy, large-jawed animal that can breathe on land and crawl like a snake, in the decades that it has popped up in freshwater lakes, ponds and rivers in the United States.
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A Colorado man who saved a 1-year-old boy struggling to breathe on the side of a busy highway is hesitant to accept the "hero" title, insisting at a reunion with the child's family on Monday that he is just a Good Samaritan who was trying to help.
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It&aposs almost as if people aren&apost actually paying attention to the news and just when they see other people get mad, they get mad, too because they want to all be in a nice little mad club where they just breathe on each other really heavily.
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Vaping of marijuana was at the root of a public health crisis that unfolded this summer when more than 2,000 people across the country, many in their teens and 20s, became gravely ill with a lung illness that left many of them unable to breathe on their own.
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Dr. Thomas Nakagawa, chief of the division of critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital in Florida, told CNN that patients must meet specific criteria -- including whether they're in a coma and are unable to breathe on their own -- for doctors to make a determination of neurologic death.
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LG: So Rohan, my answer to you would be — and Rich probably has a different answer because he's biased — I do think it's worth investing in some other type of app or looking into other apps even if they're free apps in the store beyond Breathe on the Apple watch.
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Dr. Beecher's committee, in a report titled "A Definition of Irreversible Coma," defined a new state of death — brain death — in which patients were unconscious, unresponsive to pain and unable to breathe on their own, and had no basic reflexes (pupils unreactive to light, no gag reflex and so on).
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I wipe a few crumbs off the table and watch them fall to the floor as I prepare to tell my patient's adult son what I suspect he knows already but doesn't want to hear: After weeks in the intensive care unit, his mother's organs are failing and she'll never wake up or breathe on her own again.
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And with Netflix's continuing success with Marvel titles (as long as you don't count Iron Fist), the marriage makes sense: Lindelof has proven he can handle the sci-fi and fantasy elements of a long, over-arching story (though your mileage on LOST may vary), while HBO is the kind of network that will let the series grow and breathe on its own.
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"We were told about 30 hours later that he would never be able to breathe on his own or move at all, but he's still here, still fighting, 12 days out, and he's breathing deep and dancing with his shoulders when I play him the songs we love," Ventura's partner, Ezra Glenn, wrote in a Facebook status on Oct. 16.
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"Right now he can't breathe on his own and can't swallow, and those functions are extremely important and there hasn't been any change since he came in," Lozano tells PEOPLE "Those conversations of whether he can be taken off of life support will be had with [husband] Yovany and the family in the future, but right now they're just being introduced to their baby," she says.
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When it came time to make the terrifying decision to either let Charlie undergo surgery for a tracheotomy or wait it out to see if he could ever learn to breathe on his own, I asked Dr. Shenai, who had walked alongside us and never risked answering a question he did not know for certain, what he would do if it were his child.
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"Girls just wanna have fun 😉 Never released a video for this song… so decided to do a little tease on Instagram instead enjoy!!" she captioned the first video, where she does a sultry dance to "Breathe On Me." Wearing just a black bra and underwear to show off some large temporary tattoos, Spears gyrates and grooves along to the music, looking just as good (or better?) than she did as a teen star.
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Wiz Khalifa was seen standing up for her rendition of "I Love Rock N Roll" and Zendaya sang and danced along in the audience to "Toxic," which was the final song in Spears' performance (which also included her other hit songs "Breathe on Me" and "I'm a Slave for You.)" via GIPHY The 34-year-old was awarded Billboard's Millennium Award, a trophy previously given to the likes of Beyoncé and Whitney Houston.
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After we got back home—just before my father tripped in a parking lot and fell, the beginning of a chain of events that led, finally, to a massive stroke that left him helpless and unrecognizable, unable to breathe on his own, to open his eyes, to move, to speak—after we got home I would sometimes joke with Daddy that, because we had never reached our goal, our journey retracing the Odyssey could still be considered incomplete, could be thought of as ongoing.
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