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Peter Safar was born on 12 April, 1924 in Vienna, Austria, is an Austrian physician (1924–2003). Discover Peter Safar's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?

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Age 79 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 12 April 1924
Birthday 12 April
Birthplace Vienna, Austria
Date of death 3 August, 2003
Died Place Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Nationality Austria

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1924

Peter Safar (12 April 1924 – 3 August 2003) was an Austrian anesthesiologist of Czech descent.

He is credited with pioneering cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

Safar was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1924 into a medical family.

His father, Karl, was an ophthalmologist and his mother, Vinca (Landauer), who had a Jewish grandmother, was a pediatrician.

1948

He graduated from the University of Vienna in 1948.

1949

He married Eva Kyzivat and moved from Vienna to Hartford, Connecticut, in 1949 for surgical training at Yale University.

1952

He completed training in anesthesiology at the University of Pennsylvania in 1952.

That same year he worked in Lima, Peru, and founded that country's first academic anesthesiology department.

1954

In 1954, he became chief of the department of anesthesiology at Baltimore City Hospital.

Together with James Elam, he rediscovered the initial steps in CPR.

These included the head tilt and chin lift maneuver to open the airway of an unconscious victim, as well as the mouth-to-mouth breathing.

He influenced Norwegian doll maker Asmund Laerdal of Laerdal company to design and manufacture mannequins for CPR training called Resusci Anne.

1956

Safar, who began to work on CPR in 1956 at Baltimore City Hospital, demonstrated in a series of experiments on paralyzed human volunteers that rescuer exhaled-air mouth-to-mouth breathing could maintain satisfactory oxygen levels in the non-spontaneously breathing victim, and showed that even laypeople could effectively perform mouth-to-mouth breathing to save lives.

He combined the A (Airway) and B (Breathing) components of CPR with the C (chest compressions).

1957

He wrote the book ABC of Resuscitation in 1957, which established the basis for mass training of CPR.

1958

Safar's other achievements included the establishment of the United States' first intensive-care unit in 1958, at Baltimore City Hospital.

1961

In 1961, he went to the University of Pittsburgh, where he established its notable academic anesthesiology department and the world's first intensive-care medicine training program.

1966

In 1966, he was deeply moved by the death of his daughter, Elizabeth, at the age of 12 from an acute asthmatic crisis.

1967

He initiated the Freedom House Enterprise Ambulance Service, one of the first prehospital emergency medical services in the United States in 1967 and together with Dr. Nancy Caroline, developed standards for emergency medical technician (EMT) education and training, as well as standards for mobile intensive-care ambulance design and equipment.

Freedom House Ambulance service employed young African Americans who were deemed "unemployable".

Several members of Freedom House went on to establish successful careers in EMS and public safety.

1970

In 1970, Safar was among a group of 29 individuals meeting in Los Angeles, California who co-founded the Society of Critical Care Medicine.

1971

Dr. Safar served in 1971 as the Society's second president, following the founding president Dr. Max Harry Weil.

1973

This A-B-C system for CPR training of the public was later adopted by the American Heart Association, which promulgated standards for CPR in 1973.

1976

In 1976, Safar co-founded the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM), which is dedicated to saving lives in major disasters.

1979

He stepped down from the chairmanship of anesthesiology at the University of Pittsburgh and founded the International Resuscitation Research Center (now the University of Pittsburgh Safar Center for Resuscitation Research) in 1979, dedicated to cardiopulmonary cerebral resuscitation (CPCR).

With Nicholas Bircher he published a textbook on CPCR that became the international standard.

1989

In March 1989, he assembled an interdisciplinary team of researchers – composed of the following individuals: Miroslav Klain, M.D. (Anesthesiologist), Edmund Ricci, Ph.

D. (Evaluation research), Ernesto A. Pretto, Jr., M.D. (Anesthesiologist), Joel Abrams, Ph.D. (Engineering), and Louise Comfort, Ph.

D. (Social Science) – which became known as the University of Pittsburgh Disaster Reanimatology Study Group (DRSG).

This research team in partnership with a team of Russian and Armenian physicians conducted the first international interdisciplinary disaster evaluation research field survey study of the earthquake in Armenia.

1990

In 1990, he appointed Ernesto Pretto, M.D., as leader of the Disaster program.

1991

The Armenia study led to a series of post-disaster field studies by the DRSG in Costa Rica (1991), Turkey (1993), and Japan (1994).

1995

These studies helped to establish the "Golden 24 Hours" of emergency response in disasters and inspired Norwegian anesthesiologist and humanitarian Dr. Knut Ole Sundnes to establish in 1995 the Task Force of Quality Control of Disaster Management (TFQCDM), under the auspices of the Nordic Society of Disaster Medicine and WADEM.

Safar practiced and taught clinical anesthesiology at Presbyterian University Hospital in Pittsburgh until the age of 65, but he continued his research activities until his death.

His lifelong goal was to "save the hearts and brains of those too young to die" and to improve the life-saving potential in disasters, a field he called "Disaster Reanimatology."

1999

In 1999, Safar was awarded the Cross of Honor, Austria's highest civilian honor, for his services in the field of medicine.

He was nominated three times for the Nobel Prize in Medicine.

2003

Safar died on 3 August 2003 at his home in Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania, from cancer.

2014

On 13 September 2014, the Alliance of Germanic Societies of Pittsburgh honored him, as well.