Is cardiopulmonary resuscitation the first aid method of Chinese medicine or western medicine?

Modern cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) technology is naturally the first aid method of western medicine. Here, we have to mention a famous pre-resuscitation student, namely Peter, who is called the father of modern cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Sofa (Peter Safar).

Dr. Sofa and Dr. James Elam) * * * created cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), including chin lifting to open airway, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and chest compressions with bare hands. Since 1956, Sofa has conducted a series of experiments on volunteers recruited by Baltimore Municipal Hospital. First, the volunteers were paralyzed, making them lose their spontaneous breathing, and then they were given mouth-to-mouth artificial respiration. The results show that mouth-to-mouth artificial respiration can provide satisfactory oxygen content for patients who have lost spontaneous breathing. He combined airway (step A), artificial respiration (step B) and chest compressions (step C) to create cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Through the practical operation experiments carried out by volunteers, the results show that even ordinary people can effectively save lives by mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Sofa published the book "Basic Knowledge of Resuscitation" on 1957, which laid a solid theoretical foundation for popularizing CPR training among the public. Then, the ABC step-by-step first aid training method was adopted by the American Heart Association, which published the standard of cardiopulmonary resuscitation in 1973 (the Guide to Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Cardiovascular First Aid, which is formulated and published by the association every five years, is the authoritative document for cardiopulmonary resuscitation training and first aid in the industry).

Because of this, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize three times (although unfortunately he never won the final prize).

However, in ancient China, some first aid techniques were very similar to modern CPR techniques. In Treatise on Febrile Diseases in the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a description of "one person pressing it with his hand and counting it", which is really like the technique of chest pressing today.