PHARYNGEAL INSUFFLATION, A SIMPLE METHOD OF ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION

A New Method of Artificial Respiration

The two main recognized methods of artificial respiration, namely, Schafer's and Silvester's, depend for their efficacy on the elastic recoil of the chest wall and diaphragm, which can happen only when the integrity and tonicity of the muscles of the respiration are maintained. Schafer's (1907-8) method consists in Maying the subject prone, and pressing gradually for three seconds with both han...

[The Holger Nielsen method of artificial respiration].

Case of Asphyxia Caused by Post Pharyngeal Abscess; Resusctation by Evacuation, and Howard's Direct Method of Artificial Respiration

The following case presents some points of interest which I think renders it worth recording. I was recently called in hurriedly by a native medical practitioner for the purpose of performing tracheotomy on a child suffering from an inflammatory affection of the throat, which was causing alarming symptoms of difficulty of breathing. The child was about 1J years old, and had shown symptoms of in...

Artificial Respiration

lowering the arms gave still less favourable results. Howard's direct method of alternately compressing the lower chest wall by the spread hands and letting go sharply was found to cause a much larger air entry, but still below the normal; but it is conducted in the supine attitude which, in many cases, as in drowning, prevent other useful indications from being fulfilled and is sometimes subje...

Artificial Respiration Explained