Before the invention of the polio vaccine, the iron lung supported patients whose lungs were weakened or paralyzed by polio.

Both intermittent negative pressure ventilation (INPV) and positive pressure ventilation through a face or a nasal mask have been used recently for this purpose. nMV in ARF is reported to be ...

Rigorous ventilation tests verified that the isolation ward could provide an effective negative-pressure environment, efficiently blocking the spread of highly infectious airborne viral particles.

When you breathe normally, your diaphragm and the muscles between ribs create a negative pressure inside the lung. "But when you are undergoing mechanical ventilation, you are creating hydrostatic ...