Resuscitation from electric shock, traumatic shock, drowning, asphyxiation from any cause by means of artificial respiration by the prone pressure (Schaefer) method : with anatomical details of the method, and complete directions for self-instruction / by Charles A. Lauffer.

  • Lauffer, Charles Alpheus, 1875-
Date:
1913
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Credit: Resuscitation from electric shock, traumatic shock, drowning, asphyxiation from any cause by means of artificial respiration by the prone pressure (Schaefer) method : with anatomical details of the method, and complete directions for self-instruction / by Charles A. Lauffer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    make pressure on their free ends is the prime consideration. Prone Pressure is the worst imaginable method of artificial respiration, if pressure is made too high or too low, and L_. :^^_..,: ^ ^ Davis's Applied Anatomy, Copyright 1910, J. B. Llpplncott Co. Fig. 5. not made on the free ends of these floating ribs. We press on the ends of the floating ribs like on a pump handle; the nearer their ends we make pressure the more leverage we have.