EARLY PROPONENTS OF CARDIAC MASSAGE

Authors
BOHRER H GOERIG M
Citation
H. Bohrer et M. Goerig, EARLY PROPONENTS OF CARDIAC MASSAGE, Anaesthesia, 50(11), 1995, pp. 969-971
Citations number
20
Categorie Soggetti
Anesthesiology
Journal title
Anaesthesia → ACNP
ISSN journal
00032409
Volume
50
Issue
11
Year of publication
1995
Pages
969 - 971
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-2409(1995)50:11<969:EPOCM>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
Open-chest cardiac massage in humans to treat chloroform syncope was f irst performed by Niehans in Berne and Langenbuch in Berlin in the lat e 1880s. Closed-chest cardiac massage in humans was advocated by Koeni g and Maass in Gottingen in the last two decades of the 19th century. The closed technique was used in Central Europe for several decades to treat chloroform syncope.