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Tue Oct 6 19:40:12 BST 2009

Hi
Nancy Caroline died 12/12/2002, she is buried in Boston
                                                                       Clive

2009/10/6 <KMATTOX at aol.com>

> 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.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
>
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>
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> (
> 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
>
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>
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> -Srch-Books-Submit.y=0<http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_adv_b/?search-alias=stripbooks&unfil%0Atered=1&field-keywords=&field-author=Peter+Safer&f%0Aield-title=&field-isbn=&field-publisher=&node=&url=&field-feature_browse-bin%0A=&field-binding_browse-bin=&field-subject=&field-language=&field-dateop=&fie%0Ald-datemod=&field-dateyear=&sort=relevancerank&Adv-Srch-Books-Submit.x=0&Adv%0A-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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