Paul Alexander (polio survivor) - Wikipedia
Paul Richard Alexander (January 30, 1946 – March 11, 2024) was an American paralytic polio survivor, lawyer and author. He contracted polio in 1952 at the age of six and spent the vast majority of his life in an iron lung for more than 70 years.
The man in the iron lung: How Paul Alexander lived life to the full - BBC
Paul Alexander was six years old when he woke, terrified, to find himself inside a large metal tube, with only his head sticking out. He couldn't move to feel what was trapping him, and when he...
Paul Alexander lived in an iron lung for more than 70 years.
2024年3月15日 · Paul Alexander, a polio survivor who became known as "the man in the iron lung" died on Monday, aged 78. He contracted polio as a boy, leaving him paralysed from the neck down.
The man in the iron lung: How Paul Alexander lived life to the full
2024年3月24日 · Paul Alexander was six years old when he woke, terrified, to find himself inside a large metal tube, with only his head sticking out. He couldn't move to feel what was trapping him, and when he...
Longest surviving iron lung patient was kept alive by a machine …
2023年3月21日 · Meet Paul Alexander: the longest iron lung patient who, after surviving polio, has been living thanks to an iron lung for over 70 years.
Iron lung - Wikipedia
An iron lung is a type of negative pressure ventilator, a mechanical respirator which encloses most of a person's body and varies the air pressure in the enclosed space to stimulate breathing. [1][2] It assists breathing when muscle control is lost, or the work of breathing exceeds the person's ability. [1] .
Texas Man Who Lived 70 Years in an Iron Lung ... - Smithsonian Magazine
2024年3月13日 · Almost completely paralyzed from the neck down, Alexander, who died on March 11 at age 78, spent much of the next seven decades in a large steel ventilator known as an iron lung. He was one of...
‘Polio Paul,’ who spent most of the past 70 years in an iron lung, …
2024年3月14日 · Paul Alexander, who lived inside an iron lung for over 70 years and defied expectations by becoming a lawyer and author, died Monday afternoon at the age of 78, according to his brother Philip...
Paul Alexander, The Man Who Lived In An Iron Lung For 72 Years
2024年5月26日 · The iron lung is a pod-like, full-body mechanical respirator. It breathes for paralyzed patients who cannot take in oxygen normally. Many of those who contracted paralytic polio would have died without the support of the iron lung, and they spent the remainder of their lives inside the device.
Man in an iron lung since age 6 dies at 78 : NPR
2024年3月13日 · Paul Alexander, who held a Guinness World Record for living the longest with the help of an iron lung, has died. Here, medical staff stand among iron lung machines in an emergency polio...
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