Word: pulmotors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...pulmotor was not used, because : 1) His nose and mouth would have to be sealed ; 2 ) It would have a bad psychological effect on his morale; 3) It could not be so well regulated, since there was no spark of natural respiration...
...Manhattan, an infant, delivered, appeared to be a corpse; there was no action of the heart, though the lungs exhibited a faint, spasmodic twitching. For 15 minutes Dr. Israel Kassow, attendant physician, worked in vain, suddenly remembered reading of how a pulmotor had been used in a similar case in Chicago. He seized a telephone, called up the Northern Union Gas Co., explained his need; an emergency pulmotor crew raced to the hospital with siren roaring. The pulmotor forced air into the apparently lifeless lungs, sucked it out again; the lungs responded, the pulse began to strike in the small...
Ordinary means failed to revive the child. The physician in attendance, Dr. Philip Mininberg, then injected a few drops of adrenalin and heart action recommenced. A small quantity of blood was drawn to ease the heart's work. Massage and a pulmotor were applied, and within an hour the child was breathing normally...