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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of extubate.

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Examples

  • Approximately 18 hours after intubation, the patient became combative and was extubated after 24 hours.

    Loads 2010

  • In the recovery room her mother was extubated and woke up, but was still so combative that she needed to be sedated again.

    Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011

  • In the recovery room her mother was extubated and woke up, but was still so combative that she needed to be sedated again.

    Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011

  • If someone I just extubated and got off the vent from respiratory failure due to their COPD is found outside smoking within 12 hours you think they will quit for money.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Cowen on Medicare Spending: 2009

  • If someone I just extubated and got off the vent from respiratory failure due to their COPD is found outside smoking within 12 hours you think they will quit for money.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Cowen on Medicare Spending: 2009

  • I gave her the white board Dr. Wu had given me; until Claire was extubated tomorrow morning she would have to use this to communicate.

    Change of Heart Jodi Picoult 2008

  • He's extubated yesterday, came off the breathing machine yesterday.

    CNN Transcript Sep 7, 2004 2004

  • As a rule, when a convalescent diphtheritic patient cannot be extubated two weeks after three negative cultures have been obtained the advisability of a low tracheotomy should be considered.

    Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911

  • Baseline, single lung, 10 min and 30 min measurements were obtained with the rat intubated and ventilated at volume control ventilation; 6 h measurements were obtained with the rat extubated and breathing room air without support of a ventilator.

    Naturejobs - All Jobs Harald C Ott 2010

  • Giving the neuromuscular blocking agent after the patient is extubated has resulted in serious problems, too.

    WN.com - Business News 2010

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