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spontaneous breathing trial

noun/spɒnˈteɪniəs ˈbriːðɪŋ ˈtraɪəl/

C2CEFR level
85/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

A period of minimal ventilator support used to assess whether a patient is ready to be extubated.

She passed a thirty-minute spontaneous breathing trial on pressure support of 5.

Similar: SBT

Topic: Critical care in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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