Medical Dictionary

mechanical ventilation

noun

Medical Definition of MECHANICAL VENTILATION

:  artificial ventilation of the lungs (as by positive end-expiratory pressure) using means external to the body <the patient was sufficiently obtunded to require intubation and mechanical ventilation—Susan M. Pond et al>

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