Electronic hacking machine.No one likes to cough, especially at night, when hacking keeps an ailing body from getting a good night's sleep. But the coughing reflex can also save lives, says Elliot Roth of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago is a rehabilitation hospital located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is a part of the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University. . It helps keep the lungs clear of fluids, which can impair breathing and become breeding grounds for bacteria. People paralyzed par·a·lyze tr.v. par·a·lyzed, par·a·lyz·ing, par·a·lyz·es 1. To affect with paralysis; cause to be paralytic. 2. To make unable to move or act: paralyzed by fear. from the neck down lose this vital reflex, and about 20 percent die of respiratory problems, Roth notes. In September, Roth and Robert J. Jaeger jaeger (yā`gər), common name for several members of the family Stercorariidae, member of a family of hawklike sea birds closely related to the gull and the tern. The skua is also a member of this family. of the Illinois Institute of Technology Illinois Institute of Technology, in Chicago; coeducational; founded 1940 by a merger of Armour Institute of Technology (founded 1892) and Lewis Institute (1896). in Chicago patented a cough stimulator. They expect quadriplegics will be able to use this pocket-size electronic device within the next 5 years. |
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