{"id":533,"date":"2016-04-18T14:29:32","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T14:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beyondpolio.org\/?p=533"},"modified":"2016-04-18T14:29:39","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T14:29:39","slug":"vaccine-development-polio-patients-encased-iron-lungs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beyondpolio.org\/?p=533","title":{"rendered":"Before Vaccine Development, Polio Patients Were Encased in Iron Lungs"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_536\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-536\" style=\"width: 406px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-536\" src=\"https:\/\/beyondpolio.org\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Iron_Lung_ward-Rancho_Los_Amigos_Hospital.gif\" alt=\"The Iron Lung ward at Rancho Los Amigos Hospital; Courtesy of The Food and Drug Administration\" width=\"406\" height=\"271\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-536\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Iron Lung ward at Rancho Los Amigos Hospital; Courtesy of The Food and Drug Administration<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Several polio survivors and members of the medical community have come forward with their own personal stories surrounding the crippling illness. In 1944, Fargo, North Dakota, resident Dale Stenerson was diagnosed with polio at the age of nine and spent a good portion of the next two years inside an iron lung, a common treatment program at the time. Betty Simonson, a former nurse who also lives in Fargo, recalls a time when a shortage of nurses who were trained in operating the iron lungs caused interruptions in treatment. Once patients graduated from the iron lung, they were placed inside rocking beds that would slowly swing them from the lying position to standing upright, helping them to enable their diaphragms and ideally breathe easier.<\/p>\n<p>For the full article, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grandforksherald.com\/news\/region\/4002440-vaccine-development-polio-patients-were-encased-iron-lungs\" target=\"_blank\">visit GrandForksHerald.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several polio survivors and members of the medical community have come forward with their own personal stories surrounding the crippling illness. In 1944, Fargo, North Dakota, resident Dale Stenerson was diagnosed with polio at the age of nine and spent a good portion of the next two years inside an iron lung, a common treatment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Before Vaccine Development, Polio Patients Were Encased in Iron Lungs<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/beyondpolio.org\/?p=533\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Before Vaccine Development, Polio Patients Were Encased in Iron Lungs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Several polio survivors and members of the medical community have come forward with their own personal stories surrounding the crippling illness. 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