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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 ]
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.
Arterial gas embolism is caused by gas in the lungs getting into the pulmonary venous circulation through injuries to the capillaries of the alveoli caused by lung overpressure injury. These bubbles are then circulated to the tissues via the systemic arterial circulation, and may cause blockages directly or indirectly by initiating clotting.
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.
A man who lived inside an ‘iron lung’ for seven decades after contracting polio as a child has died.. Paul Alexander was paralysed from the neck down after contracting the virus in 1952. He ...
The polio survivor spent more than 70 years being kept alive by the medical device.
There, children were treated in a ward of iron lungs. He almost died in the hospital before a doctor noticed he was not breathing and rushed him into an iron lung. [7] He spent eighteen months in the hospital. At discharge, his parents rented a portable generator and a truck to bring him and his iron lung home.
Paul Alexander lived in an iron lung for more than seven decades and was open about his life on social media.