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noun - respirator that produces alternations in air pressure in a chamber surrounding a patient's chest to force air into and out of the lungs thus providing artificial respiration
IRON LUNG - A steel chamber, usually cylindrical, enclosing the entire body of a person except for the head, used to assist respiration for people suffering from disease, especially poliomyelitis.
IRON LUNG - A negative pressure ventilator, also known as iron lung (colloquialism) or pulmotor (generic trademark), is a mechanical respirator which enables a ...
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| It's also called the Drinker Respirator, after Philip Drinker, who invented it |
| An airtight metaliic cylinder enclosing a patient up to the neck |
| The tank respirator Philip Drinker invented helped polio patients & was nicknamed this |
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A negative pressure ventilator, also known as Iron lung (colloquialism) or pulmotor (generic trademark), is a mechanical respirator which enables a person to breathe on his or her own in a normal manner, when muscle control is lost, or the work of breathing exceeds the person's ability. Need for this treatment may result from certain diseases (e.g. polio, botulism) and certain poisons (e.g. barbiturates, tubocurarine). * Its use is largely obsolete in modern medicine, as superior breathing therapies have been developed, and due to the eradication of polio.Examples of the device include both the Drinker respirator, the Emerson respirator, and the Both (or Emerson-Drinker) respirator. The negative form of pressure ventilation (decreasing surrounding pressure to induce inhalation then repressurizing to 1 bar (15 psi; 750 mmHg)) has been almost entirely superseded by positive pressure ventilation (forcing air into the lungs with a pressure greater than 1 bar then allowing the body to naturally exhale before repeating) or negative pressure cuirass ventilation |