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Two Early Danish Respirators Designed for Prolonged Artificial Ventilation
Author(s) -
Kristensen H. Sund,
Lunding M.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
acta anaesthesiologica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1399-6576
pISSN - 0001-5172
DOI - 10.1111/j.1399-6576.1978.tb01382.x
Subject(s) - respirator , medicine , danish , poliomyelitis , ventilation (architecture) , covid-19 , medical emergency , intensive care medicine , mechanical engineering , pediatrics , engineering , linguistics , materials science , composite material , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , philosophy
Two Danish respirators are described. The first one was made by August Krogh in 1931 and was based on the principles of the Drinker tank respirator. The original feature was a motor driven by water from an ordinary water tap. It was never widely used, most likely due to practical problems connected with nursing care, etc. The polio epidemic in Copenhagen in 1952 initiated the era cf the IPPV‐methods and gave rise to the construction of a great number of new respirators. Among the first of these was the Claus Bang respirator. Although it contained many modern featurcs, it proved technically unreliable and was only used for 3–5 years.