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An 'iron lung' is a machine that enables a patient to breathe, when the patient's respiratory muscles are paralyzed. It was invented by Dr Dinker and associates in 1928. A more efficient unit was made several years later. It is most famous for use during the polio epidemics in the 1940s and 50s, when literally thousands of people, many children, had polio. The device works by placing the patient inside, with only the head outside the machine. The machine then creates alternating negative and positive pressure to create 'breathing' for the patient. The negative pressure inside the unit inflates the lungs, and the positive pressure deflates them- ie inspiration and expiration. For more information, go to Wikipedia Encyclopedia on-line, and type in 'iron lung' in the search field.
It was an old style machine that alternated the pressure inside this cylindrical machine. The changing pressure helped a person breath. Higher pressure pushed air out of a patients lungs, then the pressure would lower helping the patient inhale. The patients head was left outside the machine.
It is still used, but now it is called a Respirator.
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When was My Iron Lung created?
My Iron Lung was created in 1993.
Why was the Iron Lung invented?
because
How did he invent the iron lung?
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When was an iron lung first used?
1928
Who invented iron lung?
Three men were involved in the invention of the iron lung. Their names were John Emerson, Philip Drinker, and Louis Shaw, Jr.
Who invented the iron breathing lung?
The first modern iron lung was invented by Harvard medical researchers Philip Drinker and Luis Agassiz Shaw in 1927.
The first time an iron lung was used?
1928
How long is an iron lung?
It is 2 feet long
Can cast iron dust cause black lung?
Black lung was caused by digging in the coal mines.
Who spent the Longest time in an iron lung?
June Middleton
How long do you stay in the iron lung?
Your whole life if you need to.
What methods were used before the iron lung?
dying painfully
