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  • adjective Of, pertaining to, functioning as, or by means of a ventilator

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  • adjective provided with ventilation or involving pulmonary ventilation

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Examples

  • ASPEN's professional staff includes respiratory therapists with extensive experience and expertise in chronic, medically complex respiratory disease and long-term ventilatory support.

    unknown title 2009

  • ASPEN's professional staff includes respiratory therapists with extensive experience and expertise in chronic, medically complex respiratory disease and long-term ventilatory support.

    unknown title 2009

  • ASPEN's professional staff includes respiratory therapists with extensive experience and expertise in chronic, medically complex respiratory disease and long-term ventilatory support.

    unknown title 2009

  • At altitude, the human body adjusts to taking more frequent, deeper breaths in a process called ventilatory acclimatization.

    Re-Entering New York's Atmosphere Joshua Robinson 2011

  • Find your fat-blasting sweet spot It's known as your ventilatory threshold VT1 -- the point in your workout where you shift from burning fat to burning carbs.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2011

  • These services include nutritional, financial and psychiatric counseling, a support group for patients and family members in both the pre - and post-transplant phase, use of noninvasive mechanical ventilatory support techniques to stabilize patients prior to transplantation, and a pulmonary conditioning program.

    Transplant Programs 2010

  • Hypercapnia and hypoxia rebreathing tests are used to evaluate suspected disorders of ventilatory control.

    Pulmonary Function Lab 2010

  • The pulmonary function laboratories include tests of routine pulmonary function, infant pulmonary function, ventilatory control, exercise-related breathing disorders, and bronchial reactivity.

    Fellowship Program in Pulmonary Medicine 2010

  • This was corrected after intubation and ventilatory assistance.

    Loads 2010

  • In the most severe cases, ventilatory support with high-frequency ventilation or ECMO may be required.

    Bronchopulmonary sequestration and Congenital Cystic Adenomatoid 2010

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