mechanical ventilation

Preferred Label : mechanical ventilation;

Definition : Mechanical ventilation, or assisted ventilation, sometimes abbreviated as IMV, is the medical term for artificial ventilation where mechanical means are used to assist or replace spontaneous breathing. (Wikipedia);

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Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Artificial ventilation (regime/therapy) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Mechanical Ventilation [NCIt concept]
- Mechanical ventilation [MedDRA Preferred Term]
- Mechanical ventilator (physical object) [SNOMED CT concept]
- mechanical ventilation, nos [SNOMED Notion]
- mechanical ventilator [Artificial nutrition thesaurus concept]
- respiration, artificial [MeSH Descriptor]
- ventilation, mechanical [MeSH concept]
- ventilators, mechanical [MeSH concept]
- ventilators, mechanical [MeSH Descriptor]

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