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Mouth-to-Airway (adjunct)

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The lips of the dead and the ‘kiss of life’: the contemporary deathbed and the aesthetic of CPR. McMahon, Captain, Baltimore Fire Department Ambulance Service, with 15 illustrations by Colin E. Archives of Disease in Childhood-Fetal and Neonatal Edition, 91(5), F369-F373. Review of old methods for resuscitating babies.

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The Nose: the other route to the lungs

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factor than oral (which still suffers from the too-personal-contact-reluctance of the lay rescuer, as in “hands only CPR”), and to the more euphonious persuasion of “Mouth to Mouth” and “Kiss of Life.” At that time, too, it was felt that the cause, or —at least, the major focus of investigation, of Upper Airway Obstruction was the tongue.