Mouth-To-Mouth Resuscitation
MELBOURNE, June 23.
The mouth-to-mouth method of resuscitation cannot be used in all cases of asphyxia, Mr E. A. Pleydell, secretary of the Victorian branch of the Royal Lifesaving Society, said today. It could be dangerous where the respiratory passages were blocked by fluids, such as water or blood. Mr Pleydell was commenting on a Sydney report that a man’s death could have been caused by mouth - to - mouth resuscitation forcing blood from his mouth into his air passages. He said the society taught its members three kirfds of resuscitation to be used as the occasion demanded. Mouth-to-mouth was ideal in cases of electric shock where the breathing passages were clear, but if a person obviously had water or other fluids in these passages, the HolgerNeilson method, which first forced air or fluid from the lungs, was used. When the breathing passages were cleared by the Holger-Neil-son method, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation could then be used.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29240, 25 June 1960, Page 10
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