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Minneapolis Firm's Ventilator Still on Market Despite Reports of Problems.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 2004
By Kathleen Kerr, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 10--Ronald Robinson was sitting at home in his wheelchair in Hobart, Ind., recharging the portable ventilator he sometimes depended on to help him breathe, when the device burst into flames.
Robinson, 22, who has muscular dystrophy -- a disorder in which the muscles that control movement get progressively weaker -- struggled with the growing smoke until his mother, Deborah, rushed in to remove the ventilator from the room. But not, family attorney David Holub said, before Robinson inhaled enough smoke to further damage his already weakened lungs.
The February 2002 incident, outlined in court papers, prompted the Robinsons to file a lawsuit last year...
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