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Ep 111 RSV: What’s syncytial anyway?

This Podcast Will Kill You

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Positive Pressure Ventilation in Polio

The first positive pressure ventilators came onto the scene in the 1950s. Their main purpose was to essentially replace respiratory muscles or respiratory function. But over the next decades, especially with declining rates of polio, they began to be used to correct the levels of oxygen that someone was getting. And so I think that's really was this turning point, this realization of how much better outcomes were with positive pressure ventilation in polio alone.

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