Open AccessN P Singh: History of the first intensive care unit in Delhi - Reminiscences
Author(s) -
SP Devanandan
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
indian journal of anaesthesia/indian journal of anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.645
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 0976-2817
pISSN - 0019-5049
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5049.72652
Subject(s) - medicine , intensive care unit , cardiopulmonary resuscitation , poliomyelitis , specialty , resuscitation , medical emergency , emergency medicine , family medicine , pediatrics , intensive care medicine
As most of us are aware, ventilator support came to stay after the polio epidemic in Denmark in the '50s. Many of us are also aware that Peter Safar, an Anaesthesiologist, is credited with pioneering cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), who also wrote a book titled "The ABC of Resuscitation" in 1957 for training the public in CPR. It was later adopted by the American Heart Association. He also started the first intensive care unit (ICU) in 1958 in the USA. Ten years later, from 1968, the specialty grew from strength to strength in our country and, in 1992, the Society of Critical Care Medicine was formed.