Emergency Medicine Tools

noun a machine that helps a person breathe by moving air in and out of the lungs

• The patient was put on a ventilator to assist with breathing.
• They had to hook him up to a ventilator in the hospital.
• I heard they had to stick a tube down his throat and put him on a vent.
• She felt like she was suffocating in the meeting, like she needed a mental ventilator.

noun An instrument used for measuring blood pressure

• The nurse used a sphygmomanometer to measure the patient's blood pressure.
• The doctor checked my blood pressure with that arm band thing, the sphygmomanometer.
• I hate when the nurse squeezes my arm with that blood pressure cuff, aka the sphygmomanometer.
• The sphygmomanometer of truth revealed the patient's hidden stress levels.