Resuscitation and Other Uses of Artificial Respiration

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IN 1865, Sansom1 summarized the state of the art of resuscitation as follows: "All existing facts, and all the latest experiments, point to the conclusions that there is only one perfect stimulus to the failing heart, the stimulus of a sufficiently aerated blood, and that the only mode of producing it is the excitation of respiration." Thus, resuscitation has long been equated with artificial respiration, though it may deserve a larger definition. Since most recent advances in this field have been in methods of artificial respiration this aspect of resuscitation will be considered particularly. Other important measures have been reviewed . . .

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