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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] It assists breathing when muscle control is lost, or the work of breathing exceeds the person's ability. [1]
Lane spent the next several months in an iron lung. “I don’t really remember too much about that,” Lane, now 73, told me Monday from her home north of Sacramento. “The only memories I ...
In 2015 his iron lung he’d lived in for most of his life started to break, but spare parts for the machine - which hadn’t been widely in circulation since the 1960s - were not readily available.
Martha Ann Lillard [1] (born June 8, 1948) is an American polio survivor who is still living in an iron lung. After Paul Alexander's death, she became the last known person to still live in an iron lung. She contracted polio in 1953, when she was five years old. [2]
The last person to use an iron lung in the UK died in December 2017, aged 75. “I knew if I was going to do anything with my life, it was going to have to be a mental thing,” he told The ...
Dianne Odell (February 13, 1947 [1] – May 28, 2008) was a Tennessee woman who spent most of her life in an iron lung. [2] She contracted bulbospinal polio at age 3 in 1950 and was confined to an iron lung for the rest of her life. Due to a spinal deformity caused by the polio, she was unable to change to a portable breathing device introduced ...
Siderosis is the deposition of excess iron in body tissue. When used without qualification, it usually refers to an environmental disease of the lung, also known more specifically as pulmonary siderosis or Welder's disease, which is a form of pneumoconiosis.
The last man to live in an iron lung died in Dallas on Monday. Paul Alexander, 78, spent more than 70 years confined to an iron lung after contracting polio as a child in 1952.