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CPR
History
The Bellows Method
1530
Victims had hot air or smoke from the bellows of a fireplace forcefully blown into their sealed mouth
Fumigation Method
1711
This method is propelling tobacco smoke up the lifeless victim’s rectum. Usually, the victim would end up developing colon obstructive peristalsis disease.
Mouth-Mouth
1732
William Tossach uses mouth-to-mouth breaths to revive a suffocated coal-pit miner. The first clinical description of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation
Mouth- Mouth cont.
1740
The Academie des Sciences in Paris officially recommends mouth-to-mouth resuscitation for reviving victims of drowning
Animal Experimentation
1775
Danish veterinarian Peter Abildgaard discovers that after rendering a chicken lifeless by shocking it, countershocks to the chest could restore a heartbeat
The Hall Method
1856
Marshall Hall introduces the technique that is, repositioning the patient from face up to side. He updates the approach by adding pressure on the thorax
The Silvester Method
1858
Henry Silvester creates the chest-pressure arm-lift method: raise the patient’s arms up to expand the chest, then cross the arms over the chest to apply expiratory pressure
External compression (animal)
1878
In Germany, Rudolph Boehm shows that external compressions of the heart provide adequate circulation in cats
External compressions (humans)
1891
Dr. Friedrich Maass is the first to use chest compressions on two young patients
External compressions Confirmed
1903
Dr. George Crile’s research confirmed that chest compressions restore circulation in dogs
American Heart Association
1924
Six cardiologists in Chicago meet and develop the AHA (American Heart Association) on June 10.1924.
Electric Defibrillator
1947
Cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Claude Beck performs the first successful use of an electric defibrillator on a human heart
Publishing
1950
The AHA started publishing information that informs doctors, surgeons, etc. about CPR
Mouth-Mouth and Defibrillation
1956
Dr. Elam and Dr. Peter prove that mouth to mouth resuscitation is an effective life saving method
An external defibrillator successfully restores a steady heart rhythm
US military
1957
US military adopts mouth to mouth resuscitation to save unresponsive victims
Mouth- Mouth and Chest compressions
1960
Drs. Kouwenhoven, Safar, and Jude combine mouth-to-mouth breathing with chest compressions to create cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
American Heart Association
The American Heart Association recognizes CPR
1963
Training
cardiologist Dr. Leonard Cobb launches Medic II, the world’s first mass citizen training in CPR
1972
Today
Today the modern method of resessitation is CPR and the use of an AED.
Present
https://www.jems.com/2011/10/31/cpr-evolves-through-time/
https://cpr.heart.org/en/resources/history-of-cpr