KOUWENHOVEN, William Bennett (1886 – 1975)
1886 – 1975
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1960 CE
#2883.4
Closed-chest cardiac massage.
Kouwenhoeven and colleagues developed closed-chest cardiac massage without thoracotomy. Kouwenhoeven has been called "the father of cardiopulmonary resuscitation."
1961 CE
#11671
A new approach to cardiac resuscitation.
"The pioneers of modern cardiopulmonary resucitation describe their breakthrough technique of combining mouth-to-mouth ventilation, closed chest compressions, and transthoracic defibrillation to treat cardiac arrest" …