AN ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION APPARATUS FOR USE WITH COMPRESSED AIR

Artificial Respiration

lowering the arms gave still less favourable results. Howard's direct method of alternately compressing the lower chest wall by the spread hands and letting go sharply was found to cause a much larger air entry, but still below the normal; but it is conducted in the supine attitude which, in many cases, as in drowning, prevent other useful indications from being fulfilled and is sometimes subje...

Artificial respiration, the history of an idea.

INTRODUCTION THE SIMPLE automatic act of breathing is essential to life, but may be interrupted in a variety of ways. Cessation of this act of breathing is not necessarily fatal if there is some means available to produce artificial respiration. However, should this assistance be lacking then death will always supervene. This article proposes to sketch the history of the various means of artifi...

Use of compressed air in a continuous flow anaesthetic machine.

Anaesthesia was given from a Boyle's apparatus to 100 patients, using compressed air as the carrier gas.

Artificial Respiration Explained

Compressed Air Energy Storage