The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-12-06
Saving Lives With New Oxygen Pump
Case Of Drowning or Asphyxia-
alton Telephone at Once
For the PuImotor.

I Cali Murray Hill 1912, New York
1mber, and the pulmotor will come in
Shizzing auto, with the right Of way
yer ali other traffic, just as the am
hlances and the fire engines have.
And the pulmotor-what is lit
II is the newest device to resuscitate
ne apparently drowned and people
ead--so it would seem-or dying, of
as .asphyxiation, the fumes of acid,
he gas of mines, smoke, poison,
ngulation-anything where the
lngs must be started again or life
ill snuff out.
Chicago already has a pulmotor
lithin call by auto just as there are
re engines and ambuances. New
ork's machine at present is tempo
airy, but one will soon be installed as
permanent part of the Fire Depart
tent IS apparatus. At present the Con-
blidated Gas Company and the New
Tork Edison Company have private
machines for use when their employees
re stricken, in one case by gas fumes,
the other by electrical shock. If
here is n spark of life left the pulmo.
br will do the rest of the work.
The apparatus is so simple that a
nan can easily carry it in his hand.
nan can easily carry it in his hand
\ ;s all contained within a narrow
yooden box about the SAFE of the or
inary suitcase, and with everything
ompiete it weighs fortysix pounds.
It's chief parts are steel cylinder OF
compressed oxygen, an automatic bel
ows. valve for mixing air with tine
lxygen, tube fitted with a rubber
mask which goes over the mouth ana
lose and an exhaust.
The bellows is the real triumph OF
he pulmotor. 1t automatically re-
Eerses the machine, making inspira-
lion and expiration possible. During
lha imitation of the lungs there is the
lame pressure in both the bellows and
he lungs. When the lungs are filed
The bellows are inflated, move forward
automatically and reverse the valve so
hat the force of the compressed oxy-
rem is now sucking the air out of the
lungs.
Even the rhythm of the lungs is pre-
served. For large lungs it is slower;
FOR small lungs faster-just as grown
man .breathes slower than baby.
Everything is done by the machine 1T
self. The operator merely adjusts 1t;
ais task is then to pull the tongue out
as far as he can with a pair of forceps,
keep the windpipe open and see that
the gullet is closed by a gentle pres
sure of two fingers.
The machine has saved babies who
did not breathe at birth. In Chicago
lit saved the lives of two women and
a little girl who had been overcome
|by gas from cook stove. Mrs. Lola
Howard tried suicide by gas and it
brought her back. to this earth after
an hours work. 1t saved workman
who had been strangled by his jacket
and shirt catching in a press at the
Carnegie Steel Company, Pittsburgh.
There are twenty-six of these instru
ments installed at the H. c. Frick Coke
Company plant at Scottdale, Pa, and
two men have already had their ivei
saved by them. Forty-one persons
have been brought back to life by the
pulmotor and automobile sent out or
call by the Commonwealth Edison
Company of Chicago. A small boy, il
the water nobody knows how long, was
taken out apparently dead. 1t tool
three minutes more to get pulmotor
In five minutes he was shivering anC
crying and on the way to hospital II
get warm and well.