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Record-holding iron-lung patient dies
Respiratory Care Weekly, April 26, 2006
John Prestwich, a 67-year-old Briton who went into an iron lung in 1955 after polio paralyzed him from the chin down, died February 27, according to London SE 1. Listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest surviving iron-lung patient, he lived on the primitive ventilator for 16 years.
Prestwich lived on more modern custom ventilators starting in the 1970s. In recent years, Prestwich helped raise money for London's Lane-Fox Respiratory Unit at St Thomas' Hospital and advocated noninvasive ventilation technologies, reported London SE 1.
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