Does anyone know when CPR was "invented" if you can call it an invention...

Im thinking the very late 50's or early '60s, but Im not sure exactly. I'm thinkin the doctors who started it going were Austrailian.

Are you just curious in general or do you need exact info? I can ask around or look it up in one of my medical books. It's not something they seem to teach in the class <G>

All I know is that im certified. :lol:

Originally posted by DetectiveGriffin
Im thinking the very late 50's or early '60s, but Im not sure exactly. I'm thinkin the doctors who started it going were Austrailian.

Are you just curious in general or do you need exact info? I can ask around or look it up in one of my medical books. It's not something they seem to teach in the class <G>

I'm just writing a story set in the early 40s, so guesstimates are just fine. Thanks!

ah, fan fic? No cpr in the 40's, :)

hey, you ever get busted throwing free tidbits of info into a fan fic? every once in a while i'll work some kind of public service announcement into one of my stories, then get a bunch of, "hey, is that for real or did you make it up?" emails.

ive been digging around the web, this site has some info, but it skips from the 1800's to the 1950's



http://www.ukdivers.net/history/cpr.htm

History Of CPR

Modern CPR developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The discoverers of mouth-to-mouth ventilation were Drs. James Elam and Peter Safar. Though mouth-to-mouth resuscitation was described in the Bible (mostly performed by midwives to resuscitate newborns) it fell out of practice until it was rediscovered in the 1950s.

In early 1960 Drs. Kouwenhoven, Knickerbocker, and Jude discovered the benefit of chest compression to achieve a small amount of artifical circulation. Later in 1960, mouth-to-mouth and chest compression were combined to form CPR similar to the way it is practiced today.

http://depts.washington.edu/learncpr/book.html


Now you know. And knowing is half the battle.

Originally posted by DetectiveGriffin
ive been digging around the web,
http://www.ukdivers.net/history/cpr.htm
That's a great chronology leading up to the discovery of CPR. Your first post and guestimate were correct. You're good. :)

Originally posted by DetectiveGriffin
ah, fan fic? No cpr in the 40's, :)

hey, you ever get busted throwing free tidbits of info into a fan fic? every once in a while i'll work some kind of public service announcement into one of my stories, then get a bunch of, "hey, is that for real or did you make it up?" emails.


Yep, fan fic. I haven't yet, but I might. I'm trying to make sure all my war info is correct. No made up battles, etc.

Thanks for the info guys!!