🌬️ In the face of polio, the IronLung was a beacon of hope! Developed in 1927, this revolutionary device saved thousands. Did you know the first one was powered by vacuum cleaner air pumps? Dive into its fascinating history. 🏥💡 ThrowbackTech
In medical and engineering circles, it’s known by a few different names: cabinet respirator, tank respirator, negative pressure ventilator and others.
In addition to flulike symptoms, polio was known to cause muscle stiffness and paralysis. If the virus paralyzed muscles in the chest, polio sufferers — most of whom were children — couldn’t breathe. Most patients would recover all or most of their muscle strength if they could just survive this critical phase. The challenge was to figure out a way to keep them breathing for the one to two weeks that they typically needed to recover muscle function.
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