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controlled ventilation

 
Dental Dictionary: controlled respiration

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Maintenance of adequate pulmonary ventilation in apneic patients.

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Intermittent application of positive pressure to a gas or gases in or about the airway in order to force gas into the lungs in the absence of spontaneous ventilatory efforts. Also called controlled respiration.

 
 

 

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