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IN this little book of forty-seven pages Dr. Lauffer, the medical director of the Westing-house Electric and Manufacturing Company, East Pittsburg, deals with the subject of artificial respiration as applied to resuscitation in electric shock. Dr. Lauffer is an enthusiastic advocate of the prone pressure (Schaefer) method of resuscitation, and his enthusiasm appears to be based upon considerable experience. He narrates several cases which have come under his immediate notice in which it has been successfully employed: one of concussion of the brain, with unconsciousness and failure both of heart and respiration, requiring an hour's application of the method; two severe cases of electric shock; one of suffocation from smoke, in which life appeared to be extinct; one of an injury to the head, in which respiration was completely arrested and the patient would have died but for the prompt assistance of artificial respiration on the part of one of the men whom he had instructed who happened to be present; and one of drowning. In addition to these cases, he states that he knows a man who has resuscitated six victims of electric shock, all of which cases would have been fatal but for his prompt and efficient efforts at artificial respiration. The author adds, “This man is an enthusiastic advocate of the prone pressure method.”
Resuscitation from Electric Shock, Traumatic Shock, Drowning, Asphyxiation from any cause by means of Artificial Respiration by the Prone Pressure (Schaefer) Method.
By Dr. C. A. Lauffer. Pp. v + 47. (New York: John Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1913.) Price 2s. net.
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Resuscitation from Electric Shock, Traumatic Shock, Drowning, Asphyxiation from any cause by means of Artificial Respiration by the Prone Pressure (Schaefer) Method . Nature 91, 578 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091578a0
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