IRON "LUNGS"?DO YOU KNOW INVENTION OF IRON "LUNGS"

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.