Helps Polio Victims The electrophrenic ... When the current is turned off by the machine, the diaphragm relaxes and a normal breathing cycle had resulted. Unfortunately, it will be several years ...

“She knew right away that I had polio,” recalled Paul ... Mr. Alexander stayed with the machine. He said he dreaded having ...

Iron lungs, as they were known, are respirators that assisted polio patients with breathing. Coppola struggled with the disease, he said. “I was looking around, and then when I tried to get out ...

And the sarcophagus-like iron lung, which uses bellows to keep the patient breathing, was once a common sight on polio wards. But all this feels like a long-forgotten era - and for good reason.

As the machines were by then extremely ... where he could live his life without significant breathing support, but as is often the case for polio survivors, as he aged he began to need more ...