This is his 69th year in this "stainless steel bucket", which has an official website called "Iron Lung". It is the first device to replace the function of internal organs, which can help Wade breathe spontaneously. In the 20th century, many children with polio vaccine lived in this "stainless steel barrel". Half a century ago, Wade became the only iron lung man left. Polio vaccine, also known as polio, is caused by polio vaccine virus infection. The infection of polio vaccine virus is a virus infection of the nervous system, which will invade the fitness and motor neuron cells of the central nervous system software of the body, making the related muscles lose neuromodulation, thus causing contraction. This also means that even if the child saves his life, he will still leave a permanent mark-disability, and more serious medical records will continue to appear respiratory muscle hemiplegia, leading to suffocation and death.
The first outbreak of polio in new york resulted in 2,343 deaths in 9,000 medical records. Every summer after this, the pneumonia epidemic will break out on time like a digital clock, and the number of patients will increase. 192 1 year later, it became the polio vaccine injected by franklin roosevelt for the 32nd president of Britain. At that time, he was 39 years old and in his prime, but he was still disabled for life.
In order to better assist these people to inhale, 1927, PhilipDrinker and LAShaw of Harvard University invented "ironlung" to treat inspiratory muscle paralysis caused by polio vaccine. Their practice is to put the patient in a sealed container except the head, neck and skull, and control the standard air pressure in the cabin with an electric pump. When the gas is pumped out of the cabin and the standard air pressure drops below the air pressure in the lungs, the patient's lungs will expand and the gas will be sucked into the lungs through his nose, mouth and bronchi. On the contrary, when the standard air pressure rises, the patient exhales gas. Therefore, the iron lung assumes the function of the body lung and assists people to inhale hard.
"Iron Lung" entered a pediatric hospital in Melbourne for the first time, which is suitable for children with high polio vaccine and numbness in inhalation. After the "iron lung" runs, polio patients must use this large stainless steel bucket to maintain their lives. Patients who use iron lungs have only one head exposed outside the stainless steel barrel and cannot move freely for life. Influenza polio vaccine swept across Europe and North America. 1952, the number of medical records reported in Britain reached 57,628, including 2 hemiplegia1269 and 3 death145. "Iron lung" was thus sold out again. Wade, 1946 was born. He was vaccinated against polio at the age of six and was paralyzed from head to toe. After that, I was trapped in a "stainless steel bucket".
Although the iron lung saved the iron lung, its shortcomings are self-evident-insufficient lung ventilation, more and more common lungs, lack of management methods for the respiratory system, and the patient's body is sealed in stainless steel barrels, making medical and personal treatment difficult. In addition, this "stainless steel barrel" is big and heavy, and the mortality rate is high. The iron lung people who settled in the "stainless steel barrel" died once the power was cut off. Power cut is also the most worrying thing for all iron lung people. In 2008, odell, who lived in a "stainless steel barrel" for 58 years, died tragically because of the sudden power failure in Jacksontown, England, which was besieged by heavy rain.
Because of the shortcomings of iron lung, 1955, engstrom successfully developed mechanical equipment for continuous ventilation to provide continuous mechanical ventilation service for patients with high polio vaccine and complete numbness. Most patients with iron lung who settled in stainless steel barrels were replaced by lighter positive pressure bronchial anesthesia machines. As we all know, a small number of people can't use a lighter new anesthesia machine because of the dislocation of their spine, so they have to apply "iron lung" again to protect themselves. Wade is one of them.
Trapped in a stainless steel barrel for 69 years, Wade. Wade got polio vaccine when he was six years old, and stayed in the hospital for 18 months before he was discharged with iron lungs. Parents have been taking care of him, and Wade, who is cheerful by nature, learned to "act" with his mouth. In his iron lungs, he eats, drinks and plays as if he were no different from ordinary people.
Wade started his fifteen-year study career, obtained three university degrees and became a practicing lawyer at the age of forty. In this whole process, he has experienced many hardships that ordinary people can't imagine, and he has also received a lot of icing on the cake assistance. For example, when the iron lung can't work because of the storm, someone helps him run the iron lung manually. What Wade is most worried about now is the maintenance of "iron lung". In 2004, due to the death of most users of iron lung, the company acquired Philips Wellcome, a manufacturer of iron lung, and announced that they would no longer provide guarantee for iron lung.
There is something wrong with Wade's iron lung. Wade turned to the YouTube service platform for help, and the video touched 4000W netizens. Finally, he found a professional mechanical equipment repairman to ensure that the iron lung can run to the extreme again. He always keeps happy and busy. Now he has been writing his own memories. It bit a plastic stick with its teeth, and one end of the plastic stick could not be fixed with a pen that had solved the writing problem, so it used this special tool to type and answer the phone.
Even if trapped in a "stainless steel bucket", Wade never gave in to fate. After 69 years of tenacious struggle, this ancient and rare old man, with unimaginable strength and perseverance, has achieved achievements that ordinary people can't achieve and completed various ideals. Nowadays, some people can't repeat Wade's misfortune. As the pre-vaccine of poliomyelitis came out as early as 1954, cereal products developed the pre-vaccine of poliomyelitis "sugar pill" in 1959 February, which made China enter the period of polio-free vaccine.