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How Does A Ventilator Work?: Media

Mechanical ventilators have played an important, if controversial, role in the treatment of patients with severe COVID-19—helping critically ill persons breathe in the near term but having potentially dangerous risks for lung function over the long term.

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COVID-19: hospital care
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