Iron lung - Wikipedia
An iron lung is a type of negative pressure ventilator, a mechanical respirator which encloses most of a person's body and varies the air pressure in the enclosed space to stimulate breathing. [1] [2] [3] [excessive citations] It assists breathing when muscle control is lost, or the work of breathing exceeds the person's ability. [1]
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...
What Is an Iron Lung, and How Does It Work? | Discover Magazine
2023年8月10日 · As intimidating as the name sounds — and as scary as the coffin-like device looked — the iron lung was a medical miracle for people suffering from something even scarier: poliomyelitis. Before the polio vaccine was invented in 1955, the virus could be a death sentence, and periodic epidemics filled people around the world with a dread that ...
This polio survivor is one of the last still using an iron lung ... - NPR
2021年10月25日 · Iron lung respirators are prepared in an emergency polio ward at a Boston hospital in August 1955. The machines are giant ventilators about 7 feet long. Patients lie inside...
The Iron Lung - Science Museum
2018年10月14日 · 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.
How the iron lung paved the way for the modern-day intensive care ... - BBC
2024年3月15日 · Long before the polio vaccine, there was the iron lung. A large, cumbersome device that, by some accounts, looked like a "coffin with legs," the iron lung was groundbreaking in its day.
Iron lung | Description, History, & Polio | Britannica
2024年10月30日 · An iron lung, the main portion of which consists of a horizontal metal cylinder, essentially acts as a mechanical respirator, wherein a bellows positioned at the foot end of the machine moves in and out to produce changes in pressure that stimulate breathing.
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.
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 — and alive — for over five days.
What is the iron lung and how does it work? - BBC
2024年3月14日 · The polio survivor, Paul Alexander, lived inside an iron lung for 70 years. But what is an iron lung and how does it work.
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