ARTIFICIAL LUNGS
The Invention of Artificial Lungs Doctors
treating polo patients found that while many suffers were unable to breathe in
the acute stage,when the action of the virus paralyzed muscles in the
chest those who survived this stage usually recovered completely.
Such observations indicated the need to develop strategies to maintain respiration until the patient could breathe independently again.
In 1927, Chemical engineers Phili Drinker (1894-1972)and Louis Agassiz Shaw
from Harvard University,devised a tank respirator to maintain respiration In the device the
patients head stuck out of the end of the end of the tank with sponge
rubber seal to make it airtight .
Air was then pumped from the tank to produce negative pressure causing the chest to expand and thus produce breathing.
The First Iron Lung Patient
The first iron lung was installed in 1972 at Bellevue Hospital, New York,
and in 1928 the first patient was an eight-year old girl with polio comatose
from lack of oxygen.
One minute after the Device was switched on, she regained consciousness anasked foe ice cream Further refinements included a garage mechanics "creeper" that allowed patients to slide out of the rank and
boat portholes through which medical staff provided treatment.
Equipment designer John Haven Emerson produced an iron lung that could vary the respiration rate with the added advantage that it cost half much to manufacture.
The iron lung helped to save thousands of lives during the polio outbreaks
of the 1940s and 1950s. In 1959, 1,200 people were using tank respirators in
the United States, but with the advent of the polio vaccine this figure
had fallen to thirty by 2004.
Conclusion:This information is about Artificial iron lungs which are used by today's technology to Treat a Serious patients of Lungs Related Disease.
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