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Peter Safar
Peter Safar
Peter Safar
Born April 12, 1924
Vienna
Died August 2, 2003
Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania
Nationality Austrian
Fields Medicine
Alma mater University of Vienna
Known for cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Peter Safar (born April 12, 1924 in Vienna; died August 2, 2003 in Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania) was an Austrian physician of Czech descent. Events 467 - Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. Year 1924 ( MCMXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Vienna ( in Wien; see also other names) is the Capital of Austria, and is also one of the nine States of Austria. Events 338 BC - A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Mt Lebanon is a home rule Municipality in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ( often colloquially referred to as PA (its abbreviation by natives and Northeasterners is a state located in the Northeastern Austria (Österreich ( officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich Medicine is the art and science of healing It encompasses a range of Health care practices evolved to maintain and restore Human Health by the Alma mater is Latin for "nourishing mother" It was used in Ancient Rome as a title for the mother Goddess, and in Medieval The University of Vienna (Universität Wien is a Public university located in Vienna, Austria. Events 467 - Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. Year 1924 ( MCMXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Vienna ( in Wien; see also other names) is the Capital of Austria, and is also one of the nine States of Austria. Events 338 BC - A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Mt Lebanon is a home rule Municipality in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ( often colloquially referred to as PA (its abbreviation by natives and Northeasterners is a state located in the Northeastern Austria (Österreich ( officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich Czechs (Češi ˈt͡ʃɛʃɪ archaic Čechové) are a western Slavic people of Central Europe, living predominantly in the Czech Republic He is credited with pioneering cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

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Early life

Safar graduated from the University of Vienna in 1948. The University of Vienna (Universität Wien is a Public university located in Vienna, Austria. He married Eva Kyzivat and moved from Vienna to Hartford, Connecticut in 1949 for surgical training at Yale University. Connecticut ( is a state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. He completed training in anesthesiology at the University of Pennsylvania in 1952. Anesthesia, or anaesthesia (see spelling differences; from Greek grc αν- an-, "without" and grc αἲσθησις The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn) is a private University located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. That same year, he worked in Lima, Peru and founded that country's first academic anesthesiology department. Lima is the Capital and largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers on a coast overlooking Peru (Perú Piruw Piruw officially the Republic of Peru ( reˈpuβlika del peˈɾu is a country in western South America. In 1954, he became Chief of Anesthesiology at Baltimore City Hospital.

CPR

Together with James Elam, he rediscovered the airway, head tilt, chin lift (Step A) and the mouth-to-mouth breathing (Step B) components of CPR and influenced Norwegian doll maker Asmund Laerdal of Laerdal company to design and manufacture mannequins for CPR training called Resusci Anne. James Otis Elam, (1918 &ndash 10 July 1995) was a US MD and respiratory researcher Norway ( Norwegian: Norge ( Bokmål) or Noreg ( Nynorsk) officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Constitutional Mannequin (alternately manikin, mannikin, manakin, dummy or lay figure) Safar, who began to work on cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in 1956 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-breathing victim, and showed that even lay people could effectively perform mouth-to-mouth breathing to save lives. Year 1956 ( MCMLVI) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Paralysed redirects here For other uses see xx Paralysed (disambiguation Paralysis is the complete loss of Muscle function He combined the A (Airway) and the B (Breathing) of CPR with the C (chest compressions), and wrote the book ABC of Resuscitation in 1957, which established the basis for mass training of CPR. Year 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar) This A-B-C system for CPR training of the public was later adopted by the American Heart Association, which promulgated standards for CPR in [1973]. The American Heart Association (AHA is a Non-profit organization in the United States that fosters appropriate

Other Achievements

Other achievements included the establishment of the United States' first intensive care unit in 1958. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the An intensive care unit (ICU critical care unit (CCU intensive therapy unit or intensive treatment unit (ITU is a specialized department used in Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. In 1961, he went to the University of Pittsburgh, where he established its notable academic anesthesiology department and the world's first intensive care medicine training program. The University of Pittsburgh, commonly referred to as Pitt, is a non-sectarian coeducational independent state-related, "public" research University In 1966, he was deeply moved by the death of his daughter, Elizabeth, at the age of 11 from an acute asthmatic crisis. Asthma is a chronic Condition involving the Respiratory system in which the airways occasionally constrict become inflamed, and are He initiated the Freedom House Enterprise Ambulance Service, one of the first prehospital emergency medical services in the United States in 1967 and developed standards for emergency medical technician (EMT) education and training, as well as standards for mobile intensive care ambulance design and equipment. Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. The Emergency Medical Technician ( EMT) exists in many countries and is a health care provider trained to provide prehospital emergency medical care He co-founded the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine in 1976, which is dedicated to saving lives in major disasters. Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He stepped down from the chairmanship of anesthesiology at the University of Pittsburgh and founded the International Resuscitation Research Center (now the University of Pittsburgh Safar Center for Resuscitation Research) in 1979. Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) He practiced and taught clinical anesthesiology at Presbyterian University Hospital in Pittsburgh until the age of 65, but continued his research activities until his death. The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC is a leading American healthcare provider and institution for medical research His life long goal was to "save the hearts and brains of those too young to die. "

He was nominated three times for the Nobel prize in medicine. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin is awarded once a year by the Swedish Karolinska Institute.

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