CPAP Face Mask
notes: label: Description
content: CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) uses mild air pressure to help a person with apnea maintain breathing during sleep. The device was invented by Colin Sullivan (b. 1945), an Australian physician who specialized in respiratory medicine, and first tested in June 1980. This CPAP face mask was made by Vital Signs, Inc., a medical products firm established in New Jersey in 1972.
label: Description
content: Ref: Tony Kirby, “Colin Sullivan: inventive pioneer of sleep medicine,” The Lancet 377 (April 30, 2011): 1485.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of T.I. Hall
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0740.01
label: accession number
content: 1983.0740
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0740.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: face mask
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 5 in x 4 in; 7.62 cm x 12.7 cm x 10.16 cm