"Kiss-of-Life" Pioneer Dies

World | August 5, 2003, Tuesday // 00:00

The doctor credited with inventing the mouth-to-mouth resuscitation technique known as the "kiss-of-life", has died in the United States aged 79. The American Heart Association (AHA) confirmed Dr Peter Safar had died on Sunday, but did not give a cause of death. The doctor - whose pioneering efforts have saved countless lives - was born in Austria in the 1920s and survived a Nazi labour camp before emigrating to the US after the war. There are ancient references to the apparent use of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation in the Bible, but the technique fell out of practice until rediscovered by Dr Safar in the 1950s. Dr Safar's "kiss-of-life" was combined in the 1960s with new chest compressions to give us the technique we know today as CPR - cardio-pulmonary resuscitation.

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