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- verb Present participle of
extubate .
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Examples
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That does not mean that, in the extreme crisis of pandemic-induced ventilator shortage, extubating chronic patients would not be the moral choice.
Jacob M. Appel: The Coming Ethical Crisis: Oxygen Rationing 2009
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He's not in danger of pulling loose any of his lines or extubating himself, but the added exertion is causing his oxygen saturation to drop.
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