They can also be used during and post-surgery A tube, connected to a ventilator machine, is placed in a person's mouth, nose or through a small cut in the throat (called a tracheostomy ...

To allow Henry to swim, a carer wears a backpack containing the ventilator and walks alongside the pool holding a 4m-long (13ft) tube. A carer wears the ventilator in a backpack and follows Henry ...

But it was later found that the ventilator tube became detached from the patient, who was unresponsive with no pulse. The tube was immediately reconnected and resuscitation was successfully ...