What is the longest time someone has been in an iron lung

What is the longest time someone has been in an iron lung

Paul Alexander left the world at 78

Paul Alexander left the world at 78

Polio made Paul Alexander paralyzed with a down neck. Therefore, an iron lung was required for him. He lived in Dallas. He became a victim of polio in 1952 at just 5- year age. He was near to die. He got a bachelor’s degree in the year 1978.

 In the current respiratory therapy, iron-lung has a permanent role. Most patients stay for some time (some weeks or months). In the case of a person with permanently paralyzed chest muscles stay for a lifetime. Paul Alexander got engaged. Due to his critical condition, his mother did not allow him to marry. It is not believable that he lived more than 70 years in an iron lung. 

The iron lung is basically a negative pressure lung. It is called iron-ling because of the fact that a big box of metal adhered to bellows where a patient was encased. It made the patient breathe by maintaining suction from the bellows. Paul Alexander also wrote a book. 

The gloomy news of his death was given by his brother Phillip Alexander on a social media account. He was transferred to the emergency after becoming the prey of covid-19. Around 1920, the iron lung was invented. Due to the immense time spent in an iron lung, Paul Alexander holds the official Guinness World record.

He was a lawyer. A specific wheelchair holding his paralyzed body straight upright helped him serve his clients in the court.