Learn about the impressive evolution and history of CPR, dating back to the first time it was used in the 1700s!

Safar, who began to work on CPR in 1956 at Baltimore City Hospital, demonstrated in a series of experiments on paralyzed human volunteers that rescuer exhaled-air mouth-to-mouth breathing could maintain satisfactory oxygen levels in the non-spontaneously breathing victim, [5] and showed that even laypeople could effectively perform mouth-to ...

1954年James Elam 是第一個證明呼出的空氣足以維持充足氧合的人。 1956年Peter Safar 和 James Elam 發明了口對口人工呼吸法。 1960年開發了心肺復甦術（CPR）。 美國心臟協會啟動了一項計劃，讓醫生熟悉胸外心臟復甦，並成為公眾的心肺復甦術培訓的先行者。 2008年美國心臟協會發布關於 Hands-Only™ CPR 的聲明，稱目睹成人突然倒下的旁觀者應撥打 緊急求助電話，並通過在受害者胸部中間用力快速按壓來提供高品質的胸部按壓，不過口對口人工呼吸的做 …

2022年6月30日 · When was CPR invented? 1956 – Peter Safar and James Elam invented mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. 1957 – The United States military adopted the mouth-to-mouth resuscitation method to revive unresponsive victims. 1960 – Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) was developed. The American Heart Association started a program to acquaint physicians ...

1956年12月 心肺复苏（CPR）之父 PeterSafar 人体试验证实了口对口人工呼吸效果，并推广口对口人工呼吸。 1958年 William Kouwenhovern动物实验提示胸外按压可使心脏骤停后复苏。

1980年5月1日 · A six-year series encompassing 1,073 cases of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) at St. Elizabeth Medical Center (SEMC) was analyzed and compared with 13,266 hospital CPR cases in the literature. SEMC had a CPR success rate of 56% and a survival-to-discharge rate of 24%, compared with 39% and 17%, respectively, in the literature.

2022年5月7日 · 心肺复苏(Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation，简称CPR)的历史和人类的历史几乎一样悠久； 上个世纪50～60年代，国际上首先建立了现代心肺复苏理论和技术体系； 1956年Z0LL应用电除颤成功抢救了一例心室颤动的患者；

2024年10月27日 · When was CPR invented? 1956: Peter Safar and James Elam invented mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. 1957: The U.S. military adopted mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to revive unresponsive victims. 1960: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) was developed. The American Heart Association started a program to teach doctors about closed-chest CPR.

Electrical defibrillation may have begun in 1775, but was not proven successful in animals internally until 1899. The technique was applied to man internally in 1947 and externally in 1956. The simultaneous use of all these modern CPR methods dates back only 20 years.

In 1956, Elam met Peter Safar (1924–2003) – also an anesthesiologist – and persuaded him to join the effort to convince the world that ventilating the lungs with expired air was effective as part of a resuscitative technique.