Artificial Respiration
EFFORTS at resuscitation will only be successful when the respirations, -but not the heart, have been stopped. Death is extremely difficult to diagnose, the onset of true rigor mortis being the only certain clinical sign. Artificial respiration, along with administration of carbon dioxide, should be persevered with until recovery takes place or rigor
mortis sets in, and even in successful cases it may take several hours. The Board of Trade recommends Schafer’s _method for a minimum period of four hours, but recovery has been recorded even after eight hours. It ig in this type of asphyxia that the rocking stretcher is invaluable, because, apart from the
difficulty in maintaining prolonged artificial respiration, it avoids the detrimental break in rhythm and timing which occurs when one operator changes over with another. The importance of the immediate application of artificial respiration in electrocution is further confirmed by recent Canadian statistics, which: demonstrate that when it is begun within one minute of the electrical shock, 90 per cent. of the victims recover, whereas after a delay of six minutes only 10 per cent. recover. — (Red Cross Talk, "First Aid in Asphyxis,;’ 2YA, March 13). '
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 145, 2 April 1942, Page 3
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193Artificial Respiration New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 145, 2 April 1942, Page 3
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