Bloxsom Air-Lock
date: label: Date made
content: 1949
label: associated dates
content: 1945 / 1945, 1950 01 04 / 1950 01 04
notes: label: Description
content: Cylindrical bed with a plastic viewing window and enameled metal sides. Model #WL has gauges, thermometer and hoses for oxygen. Bolted to metal tubular stand with casters.
label: Description
content: Developed in the late 1940's, by Allan P. Bloxsom (1901-1991), a pediatrician at the St Joseph Hospital in Houston, Texas, the air-lock was used to resuscitate newborns and to manage respiratory problems. The device employed positive pressure oxygenation combined with heat and humidity. After a brief flurry of enthusiastic use, the the air-lock came under increased scrutiny and by 1956, the device was proved inefficacious in a controlled trial.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Texas, Houston
label: associated place
content: United States: Texas, Houston
topic: label: Subject
content: Pediatrics
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: University of Cincinnati Medical Center, College of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Newborn Division
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0835.01
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0835.01
label: accession number
content: 1986.0835
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Incubator and Respirator, infant
label: Object Name
content: incubator and respirator, infant
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 141.5 cm x 106 cm x 61 cm; 55 11/16 in x 41 3/4 in x 24 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 70 in x 35 in x 80 in; 177.8 cm x 88.9 cm x 203.2 cm