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Peter Safar Peter Safar was born in 1924 in Austria. Both of his parents were doctors and great role models, so it inspired Safar to study medicine as well. When he was studying surgery at Yale he realized that surgical techniques would not be able to progress without better life support. This led to his career in anesthesia and interest in resuscitation, both inside and outside of the operating room. In the 1950s, Safar turned his curiosity to emergency aid outside the hospital and wanted to devise a life-saving plan that could be taught to regular people. In 1957 he wrote about the ABC of life support. Airway, Breathing, Circulation. He performed daring studies of mouth-to-mouth ventilation on his colleagues at Johns Hopkins, using curare, an anesthesia to make them unconscious and paralyzed. He coined the expression “cardiopulmonary cerebral resuscitation – CPCR” which was later shortened to CPR, making Safar, the “Father of CPR”. He began an advocacy program, meaning that he told the general public that they could help someone who had collapsed at home or on the street. In 1958 Safar worked with Bjorn Lind to create a full size mannequin to teach people how to do CPR. This mannequin, Resusci-Anne, could receive mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and she had a spring attachment in her torso to be used for chest compressions. Since then, many students have been taught to check if a patient is unconscious by gently shaking the doll and calling, "Annie, Annie, are you OK?", then beginning the process of breaths and chest compressions. Today, over 60% of people know CPR! Peter Safar is also credited for helping to create the very first intensive care unit in the United States and the first paramedic service. He was known for spending his career giving life to others and has said, “I made use of the opportunities that life offered to do some good." Safar wrote, in addition to over 1400 scientific publications, a set of rules to live by. In his "Peter's Laws for the Navigation of Life," subtitled "The Creed of the Sociopathic Obsessive Compulsive", Rule # 20 states ‘Death is not the enemy but occasionally needs help with timing’ and Rule #22 says: ‘It’s up to us to Save the world’. Introduction by April Ingram Table of Contents IntroductionLinks to More Information About the Scientist Key Insight Key Experiment or Research Key Contributors Quotes by the Scientist Quotes About the Scientist Anecdotes Similar Scientists Fun Trivia About The Science The Science Behind the Discovery Personal Information Science Discovery Timeline Recommended Books About the Science Books by the Scientist Books About the Scientist Awards Major Academic Papers Curriculum Vitae Links to Science and Related Information on the Subject Sources
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