Artificial Respiration Attempting to restart breathing for someone whose breathing has stopped. When someone has stopped breathing, medical personnel or trained laypersons may attempt to restart breathing or maintain weak breathing by using artificial...

Artificial respiration is the act of simulating respiration, which provides for the overall exchange of gases in the body by pulmonary ventilation, external respiration and internal respiration.[1] This means providing air for a person who is not...

Three days after receiving the first fully implanted artificial heart, a middle-aged man lying in a Louisville hospital bed was placed back on a breathing tube to help him rest and regain strength, officials said yesterday. The respirator was reinserted late Wednesday, a...

By Ricardo Piglia. Translated by Daniel Balderston. Duke University Press. 229 pp. Paper $12.95. Detective thrillers--"beach reading" to many North Americans--have been serious staples of Latin American literature for better than a half-century. And more than anywhere else in the Southern Hemisphere,...

Lucrecia Martel's La Niña Santa ("The Holy Girl"), from her own screenplay, slithers along as a highly controlled sex comedy that is unusually civilized in comparison to the more prevalent crudities in movies these days. With her first two films (the first was 2001's La...