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(1932 - )
In 1958, William Kouwenhoven’s laboratory had received funding from the Edison Electric Institute and National Institute of Health to develop a portable defibrillator that would be useful for electric companies to treat their utility linemen who suffered electrocution. Knickerbocker was a dedicated researcher, coming in to conduct experiments even on weekends. One Saturday he made the crucial observation that a brief, temporary rise in blood pressure occurred when the heavy copper electrodes were applied to the chest wall of a dog whose heart had stopped beating. Knickerbocker told Dr. James Jude, a cardiac surgeon about his finding. Dr. Jude immediately recognized the significance of the observation, it was external cardiac massage! The team of Jude, Kouwenhoven and Knickerbocker duplicated and elaborated on the experiments and eventually found that they could extend the time to successful defibrillation (heart re-starting) and survival of a dog to over an hour with external massage by way of chest compressions. The first documented, successful case of their method being used on a human patient, a 35 year old woman, was in July 1959.
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