In a previous communication by one of us (Crile) resuscitation was at tempted by means of both direct and indirect cardiac massage, with and without artificial respiration, with and without intravenous saline infusion, and with and without the addition of adrenalin. The results of these experiments may be summarized as foUows: By cardiac massage alone animals were rarely resuscitated at any tim...

THE technique of controlled respiration during anaesthesia was developed primarily to deal with respiratory inadequacy enforced on the patient by an open pneumothorax. This paper is concerned with developing means to adjust the volume of passive ventilation to a physiological level, the basis at present appearing to be entirely empirical. Originally, in order to institute controlled respiration...

In the November (1872) number of the Indian Medical Gazette I published my first series of experiments oil artificial respirution in snake-poisoning, and the results I considered unfavourable. Judging, however, from the experiments I have since made, I am led to believe that the unsatisfactory results were due more particularly to faulty artificial respiration. It will be observed by the follow...

Apnoea is compatible with life only so long as artificial respiration can be maintained. By modern methods, artificial respiration can be continued for an unlimited time, but its prolonged application may result in serious biochemical and circulatory disturbances if its form and volume are incorrect. Apnoea may result from many causes. It may be due to obstruction in the airway, to changes in t...