TY - JOUR
AB - Notes 315 Doctors at Ham Green Hospital, Pill, near Bristol, England, have successfully adapted a lightweight British vacuum cleaner as a breathing aid for poliomyelitis patients. In so doing they have made it possible for patients hitherto confined to a small radius near their beds in the wards, to move freely in wheel chairs, to make excursions near the hospital and to take journeys by train or other transport. The doctors have adapted the cleaners to convey air from them by plastic tubing to patients' mouths, a small plastic mouthpiece being held in the teeth. This is unobtrusive and the patient is easily able to conrol through this mouthpiece the use of the air. Sufferers from poliomyelitis, of course, may require artificial respiratory aid, and the use of the so-called "iron lung" for this purpose is well-known. Then there is in use portable apparatus such as Cuirass or chest plate respi- rators. While such apparatus is suitable for the aid of pateints while they sleep, it is cumbersome and weighty, and this necessarily limits the patient's movements during waking hours. The doctors therefore sought simpler equipment for more portable use and they had the idea of using for this 
TI - Vacuum cleaner as breathing apparatus
JF - Indian Journal of Pediatrics
DO - 10.1007/BF02989323
DA - 2008-11-13
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/vacuum-cleaner-as-breathing-apparatus-deh3prnZxG
SP - 315
EP - 315
VL - 26
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -