Word: spinal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, the Harvard School of Public Health, which in 1929 developed the Drinker respirator (iron lung) for victims of spinal polio, announced that a device based on Dr. Sarnoff's theory is now helping to save the lives of victims of bulbar polio...
...this form of the disease, rarer but far deadlier than spinal polio, the virus attacks the bulb or brain stem. The iron lung often will not work on bulbar polio because the patient's breathing is jerky. with an irregular rhythm; his intake and release of air cannot be synchronized with the iron lung's regular beat. But bulbar polio has one feature which fitted in well with Dr. Sarnoff's theory: it generally leaves the phrenic nerve undamaged...
...other hand, the electrophrenic method cannot handle the more common, spinal type of paralysis. In spinal poliomyelitis, the phrenic nerve is in-operative...
Besides treating polio, the electrophrenic method cannot handle the more common, spinal type of paralysis. In spinal poliomyelitis, the phrenic nerve is inoperative...
Besides treating polio, the electrophrenic device may he useful in cases of overdoses of sleeping pills, brain tumors, and overdoses of spinal anesthesia all of which sometimes cause paralysis of the breathing muscles...