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Seeing Peter Safar, and his work

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Peter Josef Safar in 2003, who is often called "The Father of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation," or noted citations of his work in articles written and references given by me here at AENJournal.com and the Advanced Emergency Nursing Blog. In collaboration with Asmund S. " Peter J.

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ILCOR goes Annual! AHA gives focused recommendations.

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DISPATCH-ASSISTED COMPRESSION-ONLY CPR COMPARED WITH DISPATCH-ASSISTED CONVENTIONAL CPR (ADULTS): CONSENSUS ON SCIENCE. What is the optimal instruction sequence for coaching callers in dispatch-assisted CPR? The effect of delayed ventilation versus 30:2 high-quality CPR. " Knowledge Gaps: 1. ."

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Holding a lens up to life. Medical Errors in Entertainment

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Twice in my career, I've spoken to patients soothingly during CPR so proficiently performed that spontaneous movements and sentient responses could be discerned and apparently calmed; ─a quite remarkable thing. I have never found it necessary to stop CPR to beat my patient and curse them, yelling for them to come back!

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??I would have been thankful for, in days of yore …

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If doing what was called "the one-man-band resurrection shuffle" [single person CPR in the back of a moving ambulance], this worked very well, as the bag would stay hanging there on the patient's face. Once, while taking a patient to the hospital, Dispatch radioed us to call ASAP (radio rules didn't allow explanation).

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Oxygen Powered Resuscitators

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In fact, the pressure delivered was limited to ~50 cm/H2O, relieving the excess, but holding that amount for CPR. It was extremely well-liked by field personnel, but virtually unknown in hospitals. The antipathy between field personnel with demand valves and hospital staff with bags was so great that there was seldom any agreement.

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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. Chief, Department of Anesthesiology, Baltimore City Hospitals, Asst. Archives of Disease in Childhood-Fetal and Neonatal Edition, 91(5), F369-F373. Review of old methods for resuscitating babies. Tercier, J. Waters, R. By Peter Safar, M.D.

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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.