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Life After the Ventilator: Swallowing Following Extubation
As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded in New York City, patients flooded into ERs with such severe respiratory distress that many required mechanical ventilation to assist with their breathing.Because of the well-publicized shortage of life-saving ventilators…