Vivi Ebert
Books
- Breathing by Hand The Copenhagen Polio Epidemic and the Birth of Intensive Care · Liszt Think
In August 1952, Copenhagen’s Blegdam Hospital faced catastrophe as fifty paralyzed polio patients arrived daily with only one iron lung available.
- The First Paralysed Breath…ome measuring time rather than delivering life. The system that would face its test on August 27 was this one: a twelve-year-old girl named Vivi Ebert would be admitted with bulbar symptoms and placed in the iron lung, and Bjørn Ibsen would finally act on the hypothesis he had been develop…
- A Theory of Poisoned Air…ve with direct ventilation. He needs a case, a moment, a test that will make the theory visible in action. The test arrives in late August. Vivi Ebert is twelve years old. She has bulbar polio. Her condition deteriorates rapidly. She is placed in the iron lung. Her color worsens. Her blood…
- The Machine and the ManThe experiment that began with Vivi Ebert continues patient by patient, shift by shift. The hospital warps under the pressure of bodies that cannot breathe on their own. Its archite…