ventilator

2 definitions • 5 examples

an opening or a device that allows fresh air to come into a closed space:

The bathroom had no window but it had an electric ventilator.

a machine that helps people breathe when they have difficulty breathing on their own, by forcing air in and out of their lungs:

He was brought into intensive care shortly after the accident and immediately put on a ventilator.

Three days after surgery, she was taken off the ventilator, but had to go back on it a day later.

Early reports found death rates as high as 90% among COVID-19 patients on ventilators.

He was still in a critical ward, still breathing through a ventilator and still without feeling in any of his limbs.