Ann Leckie

What would it be like to live 500 years? Healthy years, of course; no one wants to live 500 years in a coma on a respirator. But reasonably healthy all that time? That would be awesome!

American Author

Forrest Bird

I work as if I were going to be the next person to need a respirator. I share in the benefits I bestow on others, and my work has enriched my life.

American Inventor

Refers to personal safety equipment against pollutants, dust, or diseases.

Protective Gear

While similar, a respirator often provides higher filtration than a typical gas mask.

Not Only Gas Masks

Commonly used where air quality may be hazardous, like in industrial or medical settings.

Workplace Usage

Often found in hospitals, assisting patients who can't breathe on their own.

Medical Support

Usage implies severe respiratory issues or life-threatening conditions.

Critical Situations

Often associated with the intensive care unit (ICU) as part of critical treatment.

Intensive Care

 wearing a full respirator kit, which in the middle of the desert in 100% humidity is the last thing you really want. The visor is filling with sweat. It's like in a leaky diving mask. Now, for the surgical gloves. There's a massive amount of preparation before going into the bat cave. It's to protect ourselves.

Free-Tailed Bats: On...

 i took a taxi there and it was still dark when i got there it's kind of like entering a space station or something that you show up shed all your clothes put it in lockers go through this vestibule and you come out on the other side wearing a climbing helmet a respirator mask and a hazmat

Resurrecting Notre-Dame...

 And it was unlike any other camping experience I'd ever had. Right outside your tent window, there is constantly a plume of toxic sulfur dioxide. You had to go with a respirator whenever you went outside. It was also smart to wear long sleeves. There are tiny microscopic basaltic needles

Searching For Life in...

 In just two days she was connected to a respirator and on the third day she died. Sol had whooping cough. After discussing the case in the room and after a quite distressing catharsis, I remember my chief resident said to me, "Okay, take a deep breath. Wash your face.

Romina Libster: The...

 And it is a fact that you can trigger spinal reflexes in dead people -- a certain kind of dead person, a beating-heart cadaver. Now this is somebody who is brain-dead, legally dead, definitely checked out, but is being kept alive on a respirator,

Mary Roach: 10 things...

 Oh, and I forgot some stuff, important the bug spray, the bear spray, the filters for my respirator. Oh well. The first day of the experiment, we got out to our plot and a grizzly bear and her cub chased us off.

How trees talk to each...

 It's not hard to imagine once I allow myself. Sever his spine at the neck. Take out his eyes with a blunt instrument. Puncture his eardrums. Cut out his tongue. Leave him alive on a respirator,

The biology of our best...

 crime scene cleaners nausea is just part of the job I have to get it done I mean there's not much of a choice as my rap on the line so I'm gonna get it done even if I'm puking in my respirator

Gory Crime-Scene Cleanup...

 kill you the neurotoxin kills by paralyzing nerves victims can't move or breathe but they are fully conscious until their lungs fail the only way to save victims is to use a respirator to

Eating Poison Fish PIPE...

 material and they taped them to our forearm they then gave us each a respirator and that we were not under any circumstances

Respirator