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ShareIn medicine, mechanical ventilation is a method to assist or replace spontaneous breathing.
Mechanical ventilation can be life-saving and is a mainstay of CPR, intensive care medicine, and anesthesia.
For more information about the topic Mechanical ventilation, read the full article at Wikipedia.org, or see the following related articles:
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Editor's Note: This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
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