Peter Safar

Peter Safar (Vienna, April 12, 1924 - August 2, 2003) was an Austrian physician of Czech descent who, along with his colleague James Elam, developed the method of mouth breathing. to mouth in the 1950s and that years later would be combined with the intermittent chest pressure technique to form the first aid method of cardiopulmonary stimulation as we know it today. He likewise had great influence in determining the parameters of brain death. He created the first intensive care unit in the United States in 1958, at Baltimore City Hospital, now Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.

Biography

Peter Safar was the son of an ophthalmologist and a pediatrician who were fired from their respective jobs, he for refusing to join the Nazi party and she for having a Jewish grandmother. He was sent to a labor camp to dig trenches after finishing high school and in 1942 he was declared unfit for the German army.

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He immigrated to the US where he developed his career.

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He created the organization that in 1976 would become the World Association for Disaster and Emergency.