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From: Poliovirus Infections
Red Book® 2015, 2015
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Made of stainless steel, and still in good working order, this Emerson Respirator, also known as an iron lung, was used by polio patients whose ability to breath was paralyzed due to this crippling viral disease. This iron lung was donated to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's Global Health Odyssey by the family of polio patient Mr Barton Hebert of Covington, LA, who had used the device from the late 1950s until his death in Iron lungs encase the thoracic cavity externally in an air-tight chamber. The chamber is used to create a negative pressure around the thoracic cavity, thereby causing air to rush into the lungs to equalize intrapulmonary pressure. Courtesy of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Date of download: 10/26/2017
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