Improved Life Saving.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 4, 24 January 1907, Page 35

Improved Life Saving.

Artificial respiration in the apparently drowned is usually set up by regular flexion of the arms of the prostrate patient. Seeking more positive and better action, Dr. Eisenmengeiv of Szaszvaros,. Hungary, has developed the new plan of alternately raising 1 and depressing the abdomen, and believes that this is a much more effective method of resuscitation. His" simple apparatus, is a kind of cuirass, which is strapped to the body and made tight by an edge pad', with a foot Bellows for compressing and .exhausting the air. The abdomen rises .and falls with the varying pressure mi the cuirass, and this gives not only vigorous inspiration and expiration, but also a gentle heart massage, the combined action tending to give favorable resul-ts even in desperate cases..