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KOUWENHOVEN, William Bennett (1886 – 1975)

KOUWENHOVEN, William Bennett (1886 – 1975)

1886 – 1975

2 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source NIH · US National Library of Medicine Unique ID: 101441429 · CC0

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" …