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Term used when a patient has a breathing tube in the mouth to help breath??


Answers: intubated/ intubation..the act of intubating

the tube or endotracheal tube is acutally not just in the mouth but thought the mouth and in the trachea, the main passage to the lungs

on a respirator/ventilator...

tubed (ems/er term)
intubation
ventolator?
artificial respiration
If the patient has a plastic tube in his/her throat, it is intubation . If the tube is connected to a machine that breathes for the patient, the machine is called a ventilator . Patients are only placed on ventilators in the most serious cases when there is no other way they can breathe on their own.


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