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CPR Inventor Dies
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 — Dr. Peter Safar, credited with inventing the mouth-to-mouth resuscitation technique, has died, the American Heart Association said Monday. He was 79.
Safar died 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.
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MSNBC NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 — Dr. Peter Safar, credited with inventing the mouth-to-mouth resuscitation technique, has died, the American Heart Association said Monday. He was 79.
Safar died 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.
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I am sure the "ABC's" are something that we all have used at one time or another.
I am sure he felt good about the number of lives that we have all saved (and will continue to save) with something as simple as A...B...C...
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