Artificial Respiration by Mouth-to-Mask Method

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VENTILATION and the respiratory blood gases have recently been measured in apneic adults to determine the relative merits of the manual methods of artificial ventilation.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Comparable data have not been reported concerning the simple and apparently effective procedure of mouth-to-mouth insufflation, one of the oldest known means of resuscitation.10 11 12 13 Numerous writers have endorsed the mouth-to-mouth method,12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 which obstetricians have long practiced in infants with asphyxia neonatorum. Anesthetists occasionally inflate the apneic patient's lungs with expired air after endotracheal intubation. The five-year survey of Ross23 indicates that the ancient method is infrequently used by rescue personnel. Whittenberger and Sarnoff13 attribute this . . .

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