This polio survivor is one of the last still using an iron lung ... - NPR
2021年10月25日 · 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.
The Iron Lung - Science Museum
The coffin-like cabinet respirator—better known as the 'iron lung'—was the state-of-the-art in life support technology in the first half of the 20th century. The first iron lung was used at Boston Children's Hospital to save the life of an eight-year-old girl with polio in 1928.
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.
The use of iron lungs as treatment for polio
2018年4月5日 · In 1928, the first patient to use the iron lung was an eight-year-old girl, suffering from respiratory paralysis as a result of poliomyelitis, or polio. Though she later died from cardiac failure, the device, an artificial respirator, had kept her breathing — …
What Is an Iron Lung, and How Does It Work? - Discover Magazine
2023年8月10日 · Drinker in particular had been studying therapies for coal-gas poisoning but realized the form of artificial respiration that culminated in the iron lung could help polio victims as well. Drinker envisioned an airtight chamber (typically made of steel, not iron, by the way) into which a patient could be placed.
Iron lung | Description, History, & Polio | Britannica
2024年10月30日 · Historically, the iron lung was used for patients affected by paralysis caused by polio; many such patients were unable to breathe on their own. After the early 1950s, following the introduction of the polio vaccine, use of the iron lung declined, such that today it is generally considered obsolete.
The man in the iron lung: How Paul Alexander lived life to the full - BBC
Paul had survived a serious bout of polio, but had been left quadriplegic. After an emergency tracheostomy operation, he was unable to breathe without the iron lung machine that now encased his...
Texas Man Who Lived 70 Years in an Iron Lung ... - Smithsonian Magazine
2024年3月13日 · 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...
Lifesaving Breath - Harvard Medical School
2018年10月18日 · The iron lung, a device that saved thousands of lives during polio outbreaks in the mid-20th century, was developed by Harvard Medical School faculty members Philip Drinker and Louis Agassiz Shaw, making its clinical debut at Boston Children’s Hospital in 1928.
Man in an iron lung since age 6 dies at 78 : NPR
2024年3月13日 · 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...