What is Ventilator-Dependent Respiratory Failure?

It depends on how it is used.
Basically the doctor is saying one of two things

1) The patient has experience the loss of spontaneous respirations during mechanical ventilation, which means they are now relying on the mechanical means of respiration to breath, since there is no other way.

or
2) The patient has already experience some sort of respiratory failure, say due to CHF or COPD, and is now needs to have some sort of mechanical assistance to assist in breathing.

Respiratory failure is when your lungs and respiratory system shut down and you would have to be hooked up to a ventilator to keep you going.

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