Iron Lung

Iron Lung

People who use an iron lung has led to the living room, a cylindrical steel drum. A door to the head and neck are free is then closed, resulting in a Box, hermetically encloses the entire body. Pumps that control airflow periodically decrease and increase the air pressure in the room, and in particular to the chest. filled when the pressure surge in the lungs, the lungs and air pressure pushes the air out through the nose and airways of the lungs when the pressure of walking in the lungs that, he was holding to the contrary, the air expelled. This simulates the iron lung physiological measurements of respiratory system: change from time to time, the intrathoracic pressure, which causes the airflow from the lungs. Iron Lung is a non-invasive therapy.

All hospital wards with rows of iron lungs in the tip of an outbreak of polio in 1940 and 1950 filled. With the success of vaccination against polio in nearly destroyed the entire world of new cases of the disease, and the advent of modern ventilators, breathing via the direct intubation of the airway, use an iron lung was significantly reduced.

Iron Lung interview Part 1

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Interview with Diane Odell and her parents about living in an iron lung for over fifty (50) years. Interview is with the Healthline show of Retirement Living TV. www.rl.tv

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