History of life suport

Abstract

Since the beginning of time the human being could not accept the inevitability of death, yet religious dogma and tradition undermined the possibility to fight it. Instructions for how resuscitation should be practiced has significantly changed over decades. The given paper presents the review of the literature concerning the history of the development of life support.

Keywords

• cardiopulmonary resuscitation, history, automated external defibrillator, cardiac arrest