Treatment

To ventilate a patient means to use a mechanical ventilator to deliver breaths to a patient who cannot breathe adequately for themselves, or to support a patient whose own breathing effort is insufficient to maintain safe oxygen and carbon dioxide levels. Mechanical ventilation is indicated when a patient is unconscious, has respiratory failure, has been … Read more

An operation to replace a heart valve that is either blocking normal blood flow or causing blood to leak backward into the heart (regurgitation).