[at-l] OT - CPR in the news

[thornel at attglobal.net (W F Thorneloe)]

After the threads of the past several day, I thought this was ironic and 
timely.

OrangeBug
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CPR Inventor Safar Dies in U.S.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dr. Peter Safar, credited with inventing the 
mouth-to-mouth resuscitation technique, has died, the American Heart 
Association (news - web sites) said on Monday. He was 79.

Safar died on Sunday, the association said in a statement. It did not give 
a cause of death.

"Safar's pioneering efforts and accomplishments in emergency and critical 
care medicine, resuscitation, life-saving first aid and disaster triage 
have saved countless lives and gained international recognition," it said.

"In the late 1950s, Safar proposed the A-B-C (airway, breathing, 
circulation) sequence of resuscitation, including the technique of 
'mouth-to-mouth' rescue breathing."

The Vienna, Austria-born Safar helped create the organization that would 
become the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine in 1976.

He survived a Nazi labor camp and emigrated to the United States, where he 
became a citizen in 1959.

Safar lived in a suburb of Pittsburgh and was a professor at the University 
of Pittsburgh medical school.

In the United States, more than 680 people die every day of sudden cardiac 
arrest. But using CPR and an automated external defibrillator can prevent 
many of this kind of deaths, according to the heart association.