Paul Alexander (polio survivor) - Wikipedia
Paul Richard Alexander (January 30, 1946 – March 11, 2024) was an American paralytic polio survivor, lawyer and writer. The last man to live in an iron lung, he contracted polio in 1952 at the age of six. Alexander earned a bachelor's degree and Juris Doctor at the University of Texas at Austin, and was admitted to the bar in 1986.
This polio survivor is one of the last still using an iron lung ... - NPR
Oct 25, 2021 · Martha Lillard needed a large respirator called an iron lung to recover from polio, which she caught in 1953. She still uses a form of the device at nights. On June 8, 1953, Martha...
The man in the iron lung: How Paul Alexander lived life to the full - BBC
Paul Alexander was six years old when he woke, terrified, to find himself inside a large metal tube, with only his head sticking out. He couldn't move to feel what was trapping him, and when he...
Iron lung - Wikipedia
The iron lung is a large horizontal cylinder designed to stimulate breathing in patients who have lost control of their respiratory muscles. The patient's head is exposed outside the cylinder, while the body is sealed inside.
‘Polio Paul,’ who spent most of the past 70 years in an iron lung, …
Mar 14, 2024 · Paul Alexander, who spent the vast majority of the past 70 years in an iron lung and defied expectations by becoming a lawyer and author, died Monday afternoon at the age of 78,...
Longest surviving iron lung patient was kept alive by a machine …
Mar 21, 2023 · Today, at the age of 77, Paul Alexander is the longest iron lung patient ever. FB Paul has been using his negative-pressure ventilator for 70 years, and currently spends most of his day inside the machine in his house.
This man lived in an iron lung for more than 70 years. Here's how …
Mar 15, 2024 · Paul Alexander, a polio survivor who became known as "the man in the iron lung" died on Monday, aged 78. He contracted polio as a boy, leaving him paralysed from the neck down. Unable to breathe on his own, Paul was placed in a metal cylinder known as an iron lung, where he would spend the the majority of his life.
Man in an iron lung since age 6 dies at 78 : NPR
Mar 13, 2024 · Paul Alexander, who held a Guinness World Record for living the longest with the help of an iron lung, has died. Here, medical staff stand among iron lung machines in an emergency polio...
How the iron lung paved the way for the modern-day intensive care ... - BBC
Mar 15, 2024 · With the passing of iron lung patient Paul Alexander, a look back at how the device paved the way for subsequent life-saving medical innovations. Long before the polio vaccine, there was the...
Texas Man Who Lived 70 Years in an Iron Lung ... - Smithsonian Magazine
Mar 13, 2024 · Almost completely paralyzed from the neck down, Alexander, who died on March 11 at age 78, spent much of the next seven decades in a large steel ventilator known as an iron lung. He was one of...