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iron lung

Negative pressure ventilator used to assist breathing. The patient lies inside the chamber with only the head free. It is associated mainly with the polio epidemics of the 1940s and 1950s, but is still occasionally used for patients with chronic breathing problems.



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Iron lungs were largely replaced by positive-pressure airway ventilators in the late 1950s that give users more freedom of movement.
Dead at 61 after life in iron lung; Power failure; Tennessee woman ... by The Seattle Times (Seattle, WA)
still rely on iron lungs but few users are confined to them all the time.
Tenn. woman who spent life in iron lung dies at 61 by WOODY BAIRD / AP Features
still rely on iron lungs but few users are confined to them all the time.
Tenn. woman who spent life in iron lung dies at 61 by WOODY BAIRD / AP News
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