The Lung Ventilator-an Engineering Appraisal

Nissen R Historical development of pulmonary surgery, American Journal of Surgery, 89, p 9 1955.

Matas R On the management of acute traumatic pneumothorax, Annals of Surgery, 29, p 409 1899.

Meltzer S J Auer J Continuous respiration without respiratory movements, Journal of Experimental Medicine, 11, p 622 1909.

Sauerbruch F Zur pathologie des offenen pneumothorax und die grundlagen meines verfahrens zu zeiner ausschaltung. Mitteilungen Grenzgebriet Medizin Chirurgie, 3, p 399 1904.

Green N W Janeway H H Artificial respiration and intrathoracic oesophageal surgery, Annals of Surgery, 52, p 58 1910.

Dorrance G M Treatment of traumatic injuries of the lungs and pleura, Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, 11, p 160 1910.

Janeway H H An apparatus for intratracheal insufflation, Annals of Surgery, 56, p 328 1912.

Thatcher V S History of anaesthesia, Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1953.

Anderson E Crafoord C Frenckner P A new and practical method of producing rhythmic ventilation during positive pressure anaesthesia, Acta Otolaryngol, 28, p. 95, 1940.

Mushin W W Rendell-Baker L Thompson P W Mapleson W W Automatic ventilation of the lungs, Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford and Edinburgh, 1969.

British Standard 3806: Specification for breathing machines for medical use, 1964.

I.S.O./TC 121. Anaesthetic equipment and medical breathing machines, 1975.