Table 58-1
- Bible story of Elisha breathing life back into the son of a Shunammite woman
- Andreas Vesalius described tracheostomy and artificial ventilation in 1543
- Teaching of resuscitation by the Society for the Recovery of Persons Apparently Drowned founded in London in 1774
- Establishment of mouth-to-mouth ventilation as the only effective means of artificial ventilation in the 1950s by Elam, Safar, and Gordon
- Successful use of the internal defibrillator in 1947
- External defibrillation introduced in the late 1950s
- Description by Kouwenhoven, Jude, and Knickerbocker of closed chest compression
- Description by Redding and Pearson of the value of epinephrine