Clinical Management and Rehabilitation of the Poliomyelitis Patient With Respiratory Insufficiency

Article1 December 1957CLINICAL MANAGEMENT AND REHABILITATION OF THE POLIOMYELITIS PATIENT WITH RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCYJOSEPH G. BENTON, Ph.D., M.D., F.A.C.P., BERTRAND C. KRIETE, M.D.JOSEPH G. BENTON, Ph.D., M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this author, BERTRAND C. KRIETE, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-47-6-1108 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptINTRODUCTIONThere is little doubt that recent advances in the prophylaxis of anterior poliomyelitis will greatly alter the public health importance of this disease syndrome,1, 2 and that the epidemics which resulted in death and serious, disabling neuromuscular disease will no longer be significant clinical problems in the foreseeable future.The development of the Respirator and Rehabilitation program under the auspices of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and selected hospitals and medical schools has resulted in a marked reduction in mortality due to acute poliomyelitis,3and has demonstrated the importance of the "multidiscipline approach" for "total care" of probably...Bibliography1. 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Y.*From the Symposium on Rehabilitation, presented at the Thirty-eighth Annual Session of The American College of Physicians, Boston, Massachusetts, April 11, 1957.From the New York Regional Respirator and Rehabilitation Center, Goldwater Memorial Hospital, Welfare Island, New York, the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, New York University College of Medicine, New York University-Bellevue Medical Center, New York, N. Y. (The Center is supported in part by a grant from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.)Requests for reprints should be addressed to Joseph G. Benton, M.D., Director, New York Regional Respirator and Rehabilitation Center, Goldwater Memorial Hospital, Welfare Island, New York 17, N. Y. 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