• A negative pressure ventilator (NPV) is a type of mechanical ventilator that stimulates an ill person's breathing by periodically applying negative air...
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  • to avoid contaminating outside areas Negative pressure ventilator, also known as an iron lung Negative-pressure wound therapy This disambiguation page...
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    Iron lung (redirect from Tank ventilator)
    is a type of negative pressure ventilator (NPV), a mechanical respirator which encloses most of a person's body and varies the air pressure in the enclosed...
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    technology of negative-pressure mechanisms, and the more common positive-pressure types. Common positive-pressure mechanical ventilators include: Transport...
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    what was eventually called the iron lung, a form of noninvasive negative-pressure ventilator widely used during the polio epidemics of the twentieth century...
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  • classification system based on 10 maxims of ventilator design A breath is one cycle of positive flow (inspiration) and negative flow (expiration) defined in terms...
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    positive pressure ventilation" (NPPV or NIPPV) has been used to distinguish it from the use of the now very rare negative pressure ventilator ("iron lung")...
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    six months in the hospital, placed in a giant metal tank, a negative pressure ventilator informally called the iron lung, to help her breathe. In the...
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  • butterflies and moths Negative Phase Velocity, an electromagnetic property induced by some exotic optical materials Negative pressure ventilator, a type of mechanical...
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  • Iron lung is the colloquial name for a negative pressure ventilator. Iron Lung may also refer to: Iron Lung (band), a punk band from Seattle Iron Lung...
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