Artificial Respirators: Fusing Life in the Body

At some point in life, medical science fails or there is no treatment left to do except for waiting for the patient to respond to the treatments. In many fatal accidents where a person slips into coma or is in a life threatening condition he is then put into ventilators. There are certain situations when, according to the science the patient is clinically dead or one by one his organs has stopped working but still brain is working. In such situations, family member of the patient does not want to stop trying and put the patient on life support system.

Medical Ventilators as said above are those life support systems that fuse the life in the body. The person who is not in the position to breathe properly or at all, is forced to breathe by pushing air inside his airways. The conditions when a person is put on artificial respirators are:

·         Emergency Situations: Mostly when a person is brought into the critical situation due to a sudden heart attack or paralysis or a fatal accident then the person is immediately put to medical ventilators as the patient may be unconscious or might feel difficulty in breathing. This will help to keep the lungs active by easily pushing the air in and out of the lungs with minimum efforts.

·         Intensive Care Unit: While a person is in ICU or in Operation theatre there are always chances that the person might collapse or may stop breathing. In order to release the pressure on lungs medical ventilators are used as they help the doctors to attend to the immediate problems of the patient.

·         Life long dependency: If the person is not cured properly or even after treatment is in a critical situation where doctors cannot do anything, then families can ask for assistance of medical ventilators at home. It will keep the heart alive by profusely fusing air in and out of the lungs. Most of the coma patients who are shifted home or rehabilitation centres are put on these ventilators.

Other medical equipments that are used along with ventilators are patient monitoring system. It is important to keep a check on the patient’s heart beat, blood pressure and other things time to time while the patient is being treated. There are many monitoring systems like ECG, EEG, MRI scans, etc that helps to keep in check the regular movements and responses of the body to the treatment. It helps the doctors to understand:

·         How the brain is reacting to the treatments?

·         Whether the brain is dead or alive?

·         How many are the per minute beats of the person?

·         Whether the person is responding to the treatments or collapsing?

The regular monitoring of the patient is needed not only at the time of emergency or in operation theatre, but also at the time when the patient is in coma or is bedridden for a lifetime. It gives an indication to the doctors what changes they need to make in the treatment for better results.