Professor Fuad Safar

Therapeutic hypothermia: the Safar vision.

At the 2(nd) International Brain Hypothermia conference, in Miami, the late Dr. Peter Safar was honored for his many contributions to the field of therapeutic hypothermia. Therapeutic hypothermia played a central role in his overall vision for optimized resuscitation and neurointensive care, across a large number of potential insults. The successful use of therapeutic hypothermia in comatose pa...

Peter Safar: father of modern cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Countless numbers of people owe their lives to the quick application of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). The technique of coupling positive pressure ventilation and external cardiac compression was the result of the work of Peter Safar, who is also credited with the creation of one of the first intensive care units in the United States as well as one of the first paramedic emergency service...

Peter J. Safar, MD: "father of CPR," innovator, teacher, humanist.

PETER J. SAFAR, MD, HAS SPENT HIS career giving life to people. Known as the “Father of CPR,” Safar is credited with helping create the first US intensive care unit and the first paramedic emergency service. His latest research focuses on developing “suspended animation for delayed resuscitation,” which is finding a way to protect the brain and heart of trauma patients in the field through ther...

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Professor Bahram Peimani-Fard

Bahram Peimani-Fard was born in 1941, in Yazd, Iran, where he completed his elementary, and high school education. He received his M.Sc. degree in Soil and Water Engineering from the Faculty of Agriculture, Shiraz University. Then, he was employed in the Range Improvement and Forage Supply Organization, affiliated with the Ministry of Agriculture to collaborate with Mr. Kernik, the FAO expert...