Peter Safar was an Austrian physician of Czech descent, born April 12, 1924 in Vienna (Austria), died August 2, 2003 in Mt. Lebanon, USA. April 12 is the 102nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (103rd in leap years). ... 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Vienna (German: Wien [viːn]; Hungarian: Bécs) is the capital of Austria, and also one of Austrias nine federal states (Bundesland Wien). ... August 2 is the 214th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (215th in leap years), with 151 days remaining. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Mount Lebanon is a census-designated place and municipality in Allegheny County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. ...

He is regarded as the "father of the cardiopulmonary resuscitation". CPR on adult Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), is emergency first aid for an unconscious person on whom breathing and pulse cannot be detected. ...

Peter Safar graduated from the University of Vienna in 1948. He married Eva Kyzivat, and moved from Vienna to Yale, USA in 1950 for surgical training. He worked in Lima, Peru (1952), then in Baltimore (USA, 1954). He began to work on cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in 1956; he worked with the firefighters to design the first emergency ambulance, and wrote the book ABC of resuscitation in 1957. He established the USA's first intensive care unit in 1958. He next went to the University of Pittsburgh where he established the notable academic anesthesiology department. In 1966, he was deeply moved by the death of his daughter, Elisabeth, at the age of 11 from an acute asthmatic crisis. He initiated the Freedom House Enterprise Ambulance Service, the first paramedical emergency service in 1967. He also helped create the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine in 1976. He retired from chairmanship of anesthesiology and founded the 'International Resuscitation Research Center' (now the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research) in 1979. He retired from practicing in 1989, at the age of 65. University of Vienna, main building, seen from Beethovens apartment The University of Vienna (German: Universität Wien) in Austria was founded in 1365 by Rudolph IV and hence named Alma mater Rudolphina. ... Yale can refer to: Yale University, one of the United States oldest and most famous universities. ... This article is about Lima, Peru. ... 1952 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article is about the city in the US state of Maryland. ... 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Intensive care medicine or critical care medicine is concerned with providing greater than ordinary medical care and observation to people in a critical or unstable condition. ... 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The University of Pittsburgh is a state-related, doctoral/research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ... A young girl with asthma using an inhaler. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... This page refers to the year 1979. ...

He worked with the Laerdal company for the design of the CPR training mannequin Resusci Anne®. He was nominated three times for the Nobel prize in medicine. He was a peace activist and a member of the Physicians for Social Responsibility, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and the World Federalist Association. Laerdal is a Norwegian manufacturer of medical equipment and medical training products. ... List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physiology or Medicine from 1901 to the present day. ... International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) is a worldwide grouping of national medical organizations. ... Citizens for Global Solutions (CGS) is a non-profit grassroots membership organization dedicated to promoting a future in which nations work together to abolish war, protect our rights and freedoms and solve the problems facing humanity that no nation can solve alone. ...

See also

• mechanical ventilation