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  2. Electrolarynx - Wikipedia

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    Komtuan, the crime lord from the film Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior, notable as a speaker of a tonal language being understood despite using a traditional monotone electrolarynx; Krishnadas in Abraham Ozhler (Malayalam Movie) Nassara in Dry Season; Ned Gerblanski from South Park; Sani Crow in Banshee; Sawyer the Cleaner from Black Lagoon

  3. Max Q (quartet) - Wikipedia

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    Max Q is the barbershop quartet that won the gold medal Barbershop Harmony Society International Barbershop Quartet Contest at Denver's Pepsi Center July 7, 2007. [1] The quartet's run for the title is featured in the 2009 feature documentary American Harmony .

  4. Iron lung - Wikipedia

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    Because of this, the development of modern ventilators, and widespread use of tracheal intubation and tracheotomy, the iron lung has mostly disappeared from modern medicine. In 1959, 1,200 people were using tank respirators in the United States, but by 2004 that number had decreased to just 39. [36] By 2014, only 10 people were left with an ...

  5. Powered air-purifying respirator - Wikipedia

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    A PAPR, gown, and biosafety cabinet in use in a BSL-3 laboratory. All parts of the PAPR are visible: the waist unit holding the fan, filter, and battery; the hose; and the mask, in this case a flexible, loose-fitting one. A powered air-purifying respirator (PAPR) is a type of respirator used to safeguard workers against contaminated air.

  6. Respirator - Wikipedia

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    According to the NIOSH Respirator Selection Logic, air-purifying respirators are recommended for concentrations of hazardous particulates or gases that are greater than the relevant occupational exposure limit but less than the immediately dangerous to life or health level and the manufacturer's maximum use concentration, subject to the ...

  7. Both respirator - Wikipedia

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    The Both respirator, also known as the Both Portable Cabinet Respirator, was a negative pressure ventilator (more commonly known as an "iron lung") invented by Edward Both in 1937. Made from plywood , the respirator was an affordable alternative to the more expensive designs that had been used prior to its development, and accordingly came into ...

  8. Elastomeric respirator - Wikipedia

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    Other problems include using a size other than the size the wearer was fit-tested on, using the wrong sort of cartridge, re-using a cartridge that is no longer good, not doing a positive- and negative-pressure seal check each time the mask is donned, failing to test the respirator (and perhaps inhaling the carbon from a broken cartridge), and ...

  9. Workplace respirator testing - Wikipedia

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    Example of measurement of efficiency of the respirator (in the workplace). Description: (1) personal sampling pump, (2) the cassette and the filter for determining the concentration (in the breathing zone), (3) the sampling line (from the breathing zone), (4) the cassette and the filter to determine the concentration (under a mask), and (5) the sampling line (from the mask).