{"id":987632845,"date":"2026-01-16T12:22:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T17:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danellaconsulting.net\/?p=987632845"},"modified":"2026-01-16T12:24:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T17:24:05","slug":"when-a-towel-saved-lives-the-forgotten-lesson-of-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danellaconsulting.net\/index.php\/2026\/01\/16\/when-a-towel-saved-lives-the-forgotten-lesson-of-1976\/","title":{"rendered":"WHEN A TOWEL SAVED LIVES: THE FORGOTTEN LESSON OF 1976"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_section et_pb_section_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_section_regular et_block_section\" >\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_row et_pb_row_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_block_row\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_column_4_4 et_pb_column et_pb_column_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et-last-child et_block_column\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_text et_pb_text_0  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">In 1976, during an outbreak of flu that hit several nursing homes in Vietnam, one small detail marked the difference between surviving... or not.<br \/>\nIn one of those institutions, with no access to advanced medical technology, caregivers resorted to a technique as simple as it is powerful: postural drainage.<br \/>\nThey would place towels under patients' chests or comfort them on inclined beds, allowing gravity to help drain pulmonary secretions and keep airways clear.<br \/>\nThey had no antivirals.<br \/>\nThey had no fans.<br \/>\nThey didn't have fancy teams.<br \/>\nAll they had was towels, wit and constant surveillance.<br \/>\nAnd most amazing thing: it worked.<br \/>\nIn that residence no life was lost, while in others, where this technique was not applied, the deaths were numerous.<br \/>\nOutside Vietnam, this episode almost went unnoticed. 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Without recognition.<br \/>\nBut he left an invaluable lesson:<br \/>\n\ud83d\udc49 Dedication, ingenuity and human care can make up for the lack of resources.<br \/>\nSometimes the answers are not in the most modern or in the most expensive,<br \/>\nbut in the most elementary:<br \/>\nthe observation, the gravity...<br \/>\nand the genuine desire to save lives.<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_image et_pb_image_0\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"et_pb_image_wrap \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"2048\" src=\"https:\/\/danellaconsulting.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/615302192_10224478348025741_4501805244685415504_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"615302192_10224478348025741_4501805244685415504_n\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danellaconsulting.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/615302192_10224478348025741_4501805244685415504_n.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/danellaconsulting.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/615302192_10224478348025741_4501805244685415504_n-1280x1280.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/danellaconsulting.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/615302192_10224478348025741_4501805244685415504_n-980x980.jpg 980w, https:\/\/danellaconsulting.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/615302192_10224478348025741_4501805244685415504_n-480x480.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 2048px, 100vw\" class=\"wp-image-987632846\" \/><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":987632846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"In 1976, during an outbreak of flu that hit several nursing homes in Vietnam, one small detail marked the difference between surviving... or not.\r\nIn one of those institutions, with no access to advanced medical technology, caregivers resorted to a technique as simple as it is powerful: postural drainage.\r\nThey would place towels under patients' chests or comfort them on inclined beds, allowing gravity to help drain pulmonary secretions and keep airways clear.\r\nThey had no antivirals.\r\nThey had no fans.\r\nThey didn't have fancy teams.\r\nAll they had was towels, wit and constant surveillance.\r\nAnd most amazing thing: it worked.\r\nIn that residence no life was lost, while in others, where this technique was not applied, the deaths were numerous.\r\nOutside Vietnam, this episode almost went unnoticed. 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Without recognition.\r\nBut he left an invaluable lesson:\r\n\ud83d\udc49 Dedication, ingenuity and human care can make up for the lack of resources.\r\nSometimes the answers are not in the most modern or in the most expensive,\r\nbut in the most elementary:\r\nthe observation, the gravity...\r\nand the genuine desire to save lives.","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,60,28,21,7,5,73,93,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987632845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-action-steps","category-editors-choice","category-great-awakening","category-health","category-hidden-secrets","category-history-reveled","category-reveals","category-survival","category-winning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danellaconsulting.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987632845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danellaconsulting.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danellaconsulting.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danellaconsulting.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danellaconsulting.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987632845"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danellaconsulting.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987632845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987632849,"href":"https:\/\/danellaconsulting.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987632845\/revisions\/987632849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danellaconsulting.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987632846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danellaconsulting.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987632845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danellaconsulting.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987632845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danellaconsulting.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987632845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}