The Brompton Manley Ventilator

Witness History

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🗓️ 23 April 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In 1970 a modern portable ventilator system was designed for use in intensive care units. The Brompton Manley’s designer was Dr Ian English a gifted anaesthetist who worked at the Royal Brompton, a specialist London hospital that treated patients with heart and lung disorders. Farhana Haider has been speaking to Margaret Branthwaite, a doctor who worked with Dr English, about how innovative the new ventilator was.

(Photo Dr Ian English Cardiothoracic Anaesthetist. Credit Family: Handout)

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0:00.0	Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless
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0:14.0	Cladie Aide.
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0:24.9	searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC sounds. Hello and thank you for downloading this edition of the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service,
0:41.7	I'm Frahanrahana Hither. As hospitals around the world try to
0:46.9	care for waves of patients suffering from coronavirus, I'm taking you back
0:51.6	to 1970 and the development of the modern portable ventilator system
0:56.6	designed for use in intensive care units.
0:59.8	The Brompton Manly Ventilator was a precursor to many of the ventilators which are proving essential
1:05.4	in the treatment of the worst symptoms of COVID-19.
1:09.6	A brand new breathing machine designed to take over when a patient can no longer do it for
1:14.0	himself has been designed by one of the hospital's consultant anesthetists.
1:18.6	That anesthetist who developed the Brompton Manly ventilator was Dr Ian English.
1:23.7	In the 1960s he was a consultant at the Brompton
1:27.1	a specialist London hospital that treated patients with heart and lung disorders.
1:31.7	If I turn the flow meter off, you see the ventilator will stop.
1:36.0	If I reintroduce the air, the ventilator starts again.
1:40.0	The air from the ventilator then passes down this tube here.
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