2007-07-21 05:20:38 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Heart Diseases
When the respiratory muscles get fatigued; and there are chances of respiratory failure e.g non responsive or prolonged bronchial asthma mostly in children and old aged patients.
In elderly patients if ABG is low according to room temperature and patient is having low oxygen in blood due to Pulmonary Disease.
Other indications include Coma (head injury, drug overdose).
2007-07-21 07:11:50 · answer #1 · answered by Dr.Qutub 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A pt. is put on a ventilator when they can not breath well enough to support their own breathing. Sometimes it is done to help "get them over the hump" so to speak until the person is well enough to breath on their own and other times it is an emergency situation when the person is not breathing at all or is only barely breathing. Either way it is done to support a person's breathing and to keep them alive.
2007-07-21 05:57:30 · answer #2 · answered by Lesley W 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Patient is unable to breath well enough to maintain oxygenation of the blood.
2007-07-21 06:09:09 · answer #3 · answered by Harmony 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the patient is not breathing on his own. or is breathing so poorly that he is not oxygenating his blood supply.
2007-07-21 05:55:53 · answer #4 · answered by essentiallysolo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋