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Editorial
. 2023 Jan 30;68(2):286-289.
doi: 10.4187/respcare.10860.

Necessity Is the Mother of All Invention, But Not All Inventions Completely Address the Necessity

Michael S Lipnick  1 , Richard D Branson  2 , Cornelius Sendagire  3
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Editorial

Necessity Is the Mother of All Invention, But Not All Inventions Completely Address the Necessity

Michael S Lipnick et al. Respir Care. .
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Conflict of interest statement

Mr Branson discloses relationships with Aerogen, Engineered Medical Systems, Inogen, Lung Pacer, Ventec and Zoll. He is Editor-in-Chief of RESPIRATORY CARE. The other authors report no conflicts of interest.

Figures

Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.
Polio patient in 1956 receiving manual ventilation with a non–self-inflating bag and a carbon dioxide absorber. From: Lassen HCA. Management of Life-Threatening Poliomyelitis–Copenhagen, 1952–1956. ES Livingstone: Edinburgh and London;1956.
Fig. 2.
Fig. 2.
Schematic of the manual ventilation, “to-and-fro” system used in the Copenhagen polio epidemic. From: Lassen HCA. Management of Life-Threatening Poliomyelitis–Copenhagen, 1952–1956. ES Livingstone: Edinburgh and London; 1956.
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