My teachers acknowledged my academic successes and my coaches depended upon my athletic abilities, but I wasn’t important enough to make a recognizable social contribution. “I managed to stay under the radar, skating through school without anyone truly remembering I was here. She is an overachiever at school, equally brilliant in her academic as well as her athletic pursuits, but instead of being a shining star, she strives to fade into the background and stay unnoticed. And I was only on the second chapter of this heartbreaking and very confronting story about a young girl and the living hell that she calls life.Įmma is a sixteen year old girl who is counting down the days to when she moves out of home and goes to college. The ventilator pushes warm, moist air (or air with extra oxygen) to the patient through a breathing tube (also called an endotracheal tube) or a tightly fitting mask.My hands were shaking. The illustration shows a standard setup for a mechanical ventilator in a hospital room.
Being on a ventilator may make you more susceptible to pneumonia, damage to your vocal cords, or other risks or problems. In some cases, they can be used at home, if the illness is long term and the caregivers at home receive training and have adequate nursing and other resources in the home. Mechanical ventilators are mainly used in hospitals and in transport systems such as ambulances and MEDEVAC air transport etc. When you’re ready to be taken off the ventilator, your healthcare team will “wean” you or decrease the ventilator support until you can start breathing on your own. Or you may need a breathing tube if your breathing problem is more serious. You may be fitted with a mask to get air from the ventilator into your lungs. Your respiratory therapist and doctor set the ventilator to control how often it pushes air into your lungs and how much air you get. Mechanical ventilators are machines that act as bellows to move air in and out of your lungs. This condition is called respiratory failure.
You may be put on a mechanical ventilator, also known as a breathing machine, if a condition makes it very difficult for you to breathe or get enough oxygen into your blood.
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