Word: pulmotored
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...true that there are bronchoscopes in almost every U. S. city. But let Reader Hanna pause in his condemnation of the Orlando doctor. As in most surgical cases, people requiring bronchoscope work often seek specialists. Unlike the pulmotor, which any fireman can use, the bronchoscope is a very delicate device to manipulate...
Near Chicago Richard Stanley Thompson, 4, went wading, got in too deep, was brought out lifeless. When artificial respiration failed, his father, Traffic Manager Stanley Thompson of Transamerican Airline Corp. in Chicago, was notified. Father Thompson seized a pulmotor. leapt into an airplane, rushed to the scene, after an hour's stubborn work restored his son to life...
...Pulmotor." Asked if the farm board would buy more wheat now as Senators from Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and Oklahoma were asking, Chairman Legge replied: "No, Stabilization will work admirably on seasonal surpluses but it can't be made to work on permanent cumulative surpluses. To buy 100,000,000 bu. of wheat would only encourage Kansas farmers to plant more and make a bad situation worse. We can apply a pulmotor and give temporary aid, but we're looking for a more permanent remedy...
...Irving Plain and an inhalator. The guards ceased their efforts at resuscitation to argue with Dr. Plain that the inhalator's carbon dioxide, which stimulates breathing, can harm lung tissue. He would not, they said, let anyone use an inhalator on one of their drowning patients. A pulmotor pumps oxygen into the lungs too quickly, in their opinion. As the life guards and doctor argued long and loud, police arrived with another inhalator. The police drove the life guards away, applied their inhalator. The victim, Hyman Getzkin, by that time was dead...
...something of all this. Five years ago, when he was driving a milk wagon on a Long Island route, he had seen a customer's child strangling in the same condition as was Mrs. Lambert's. Firemen had helped save that first child by means of a pulmotor. Patrolman Di Lorenzo remembered how the pulmotor worked. He placed his mouth to that of the child and sucked. A plug of mucous came loose; he spat it away. He blew into her throat, sucked; blew, sucked-until she could breathe by herself and live...