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Another person to query regarding the origin of the ABCs is Nancy  
Caroline.   Her latest edition of her classic book , "Resuscitation in  the Streets" 
is out.     I do believe she now lives in  Israel.     I do not remember 
when her first edition came  out, but I do think it was long after 1957.   The 
early Red Cross  and "First Aid" courses might also cite ABC.   As for 
ABCDE, I do  think that Dr. McSwain's memory is correct and I was NOT at that 
meeting of the  ATLS committee of the ACS COT.   I do remember when it was  
presented (ABCDE) to the big committee, I said to myself, "That seems to be  
going a bit far to market the course, is that really  necessary?"    Not it 
seems like it was a good idea to  me.       

k

In a message dated 10/6/2009 8:55:15 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
Krin135 at aol.com writes:

interesting. An Amazon search turns up a European book "ABC  of  
Resuscitation" in the 5th edition, as part of the 'ABC series' of  'basic'  
medical 
books (about the equivalent of the Little, Brown  Spiral Notebook series  
here in 
the states from what I can gather).  
Using "Peter Safer" returns  
http://www.trauma.org/index.php/community/list/url/http:list.ftech.net/pipermail/trauma-list/2009-October/_http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_adv_b/?search-alias=stripbooks&unfil
tered=1&field-keywords=&field-author=Peter+Safer
&field-title=&field-isbn=&field-publisher=&node=&url=&field-feature_browse-b
in=&field-binding_browse-bin=&field-subject=&field-language=&field-dateop=&f
ield-datemod=&field-dateyear=&sort=relevancerank&Adv-Srch-Books-Submit.x=0&A
dv-Srch-Books-Submit.y=0_  
(http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_adv_b/?search-alias=stripbooks&unfil
tered=1&field-keywords=&field-author=Peter+Safer&f
ield-title=&field-isbn=&field-publisher=&node=&url=&field-feature_browse-bin
=&field-binding_browse-bin=&field-subject=&field-language=&field-dateop=&fie
ld-datemod=&field-dateyear=&sort=relevancerank&Adv-Srch-Books-Submit.x=0&Adv
-Srch-Books-Submit.y=0)   (_www.tinyurl.com/Peter-Safer_ 
(http://www.tinyurl.com/Peter-Safer)  ) 

which is the third edition of  
Cardiopulmonary   Cerebral Resuscitation: An Introduction to Resuscitation 
Medicine : Basic  and  Advanced Cardiac and Trauma Life Support (Paperback) 

is  this the same book in a later edition?

ck

In a message dated  10/6/2009 07:11:32 Central Standard Time, 
pbjorn at emh.org  
writes:

Drs.  Safar and Elam are credited with the earliest  versions of
conventional CPR  in the 1950's.  Safar's obituary,  as well as many other
(perhaps  derivative?) web references, mention  his publication of a book
entitled  "The ABC of Resuscitation" in  1957.  This would be the  earliest
published use of the term that  I can find -- except that I can't  exactly
find it.  There may be  a copy or two preserved in some library  archive
in Pennsylvania; but  if it's included in any formal  bibliography
accessible via the  internet, I'm not seeing  it.

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