Surgery & Medical Devices · Recorded milestone
Intensive care unit
Recorded year1953
After Copenhagen's 1952 polio epidemic, Bjorn Ibsen's breathing support for patients leads to the first intensive care unit.
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- Iron lungRecorded · 1928enables
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.