CPR pioneer dies at 79
Emergency Management Alert, August 13, 2003
Peter Safar, MD, 79, a pioneer in emergency medicine who also was considered the father of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), died August 3 of cancer, the Associated Press reports. He was Distinguished Professor of Resuscitation Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Safar was credited with establishing the country's first physician-staffed, multidisciplinary intensive care unit in 1958 at the Baltimore City Hospital. Also in the 1950s, Safar developed the basics of the CPR lifesaving technique.
Born in 1924 in Vienna, Austria, Safar studied at the University of Vienna and Yale University before studying anesthesiology at the University of Pennsylvania. He established anesthesiology departments in Peru and Baltimore in the 1950s, and a decade later was a founding member of the U.S. National Research Council's Committee on EMS. He also established guidelines for ambulance design and emergency medical technician and paramedic training.
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