Articles: resuscitation-history.
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Medicina nei secoli · Jan 2015
Historical Article[TO CURE THE APPARENTLY DEAD. NOSOLOGY AND MEDICAL RESUSCITATION IN ITALY(XVIII CENT.)].
The first specific techniques and triages for medical resuscitation developed in the XVIII century, specifically to rescue the drowned persons. The topic of resuscitation in strictly connected to the theme of the apparent death, to the dread of the "buried alive", to the progress of forensic medicine and to the administrative and legislative policies. The contribute aims to focus on the contribution of the medical and pathologic nosology about the conception of the apparent death, read as asphyxia.
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Anesthesia and analgesia · Dec 2014
Review Historical ArticleThe art of providing resuscitation in greek mythology.
We reviewed Greek mythology to accumulate tales of resuscitation and we explored whether these tales could be viewed as indirect evidence that ancient Greeks considered resuscitation strategies similar to those currently used. ⋯ Although several narratives of Greek mythology might suggest modern resuscitation techniques, they do not clearly indicate that ancient Greeks presaged scientific methods of resuscitation. Nevertheless, these elegant tales reflect humankind's optimism that a dying human might be restored to life if the appropriate procedures were implemented. Without this optimism, scientific improvement in the field of resuscitation might not have been achieved.
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Emerg Med Australas · Dec 2014
Biography Historical ArticleIan Jacobs: From paramedic to professor, 1958-2014.