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New pulse of life.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Pyramid Films,,
1975.
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| Item Description: | One of humanity's oldest concerns is the respiration of life. Early attempts to revive the dead and dying were often primitive and ineffective. Death looks like sleep so man tried to arouse a victim by loud noises, slapping, and restoring warmth to the body with live coals. In drowning cases, the inversion method was the treatment of choice in Europe. By 1773 the Dutch became quite adept at rolling victims over barrels. In 1812 the barrel was replaced by a horse that bounced the drowning victim. The bouncing method caused some air exchange and even occasionally met with success. In 1857 England's Dr. Sylvester kept the victim face up to perform the first manual method of artificial respiration to be internationally accepted. And following World War Two, the American Red Cross and the U.S. Army sponsored a coordinated research program to determine the best method of artificial ventilation. A summary in the 1958 journal of the American Medical Association stated 'These studies have indicated the unequivocal superiority of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation over all manual methods in all age groups'. |
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| Physical Description: | Videocassette (VHS)(29 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in. |