Giffords has not been able to speak because of a breathing tube in her throat.
We gave him a syringeful of anesthetic, and a resident slid a breathing tube into his throat.
Dr Chris Guz explained that patients often reacted as the breathing tube of the ventilator was placed in their air passage.
Giffords has a breathing tube in her neck and cannot talk, but Francisco said he believes she is trying to communicate.
U. team injected him with antibiotics and sedatives, put a breathing tube down his throat, and forced pure oxygen into his lungs.
"The only reason we keep that breathing tube in is to protect her airway so that she doesn't have complications like pneumonia, " he told reporters.
The same relaxants are often used when inserting a breathing tube.
We hooked a breathing tube up to a hose from a ventilator and set it to give him fourteen forced breaths of a hundred-per-cent oxygen every minute.
Another advantage is that the patient will in theory not need to be "intubated" - a breathing tube inserted down the throat, and this should aid his or her recovery.
The doctor, who has been given anonymity like all the medical witnesses in the case, said Charlotte should be ventilated by way of a tracheostomy - the insertion of a breathing tube through the throat - so further discussions could take place between parents and doctors.
Macgillivray, who can struggle to walk, sat throughout his six-day trial breathing oxygen through a tube.
Information Minister Ernesto Villegas said that as the Venezuelan leader was breathing through a tracheal tube, it was difficult for him to speak.
Along with images of the puffy-faced Chavez came a government explanation for why no one has heard from the longtime president since his surgery: He's breathing through a tracheal tube that makes speech difficult.
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia declined an interview with CNN for this story, but Janet said doctors are telling her that Sarah could "crash" any time now and need intubation, the insertion of a tube into her lungs for breathing assistance.
Mr Betchley was admitted to hospital with breathing problems and was being fed by a tube into his stomach.
Severe respiratory failure may require insertion of a tube into the trachea (intubation) to assist the child's breathing until the infection is brought under control.
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