1.   Their hands were encased in closefitting gloves and their heads were grotesque in respirators with ribbed breathing tubes and large, goggling eye-pieces.

2.   As is standard, the man will have a breathing tube in his windpipe for another day or so.

3.   Aspiration can occur when a patient is overly sedated before receiving a breathing tube, or when the tube is removed prematurely, before the gag reflex has returned.

4.   Asthma is a chronic, inflammatory lung disease that clogs the breathing tubes, causing mild to severe breathing problems.

5.   Because a breathing tube implanted in his throat robbed him of his speech, Taylor must coax his stories with a series of point and clicks.

6.   A breathing tube was removed about an hour later.

7.   A few are so sick they need treatment with a ventilator, requiring insertion of a breathing tube.

8.   A hole was cut in the lower neck of some patients to reach the windpipe to insert a breathing tube connected to a respirator.

9.   A nurse lifts tiny Sarina Escalante from an incubator, taking care not to disturb the heart monitor, the intravenous needle or the breathing tube.

10.   A protracted stay in the intensive care unit left him dependent on a ventilator, with a breathing tube.