title: [An outline history of ancient application and development of cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR)].
abstract: Through analysing the ancient medical literatures, the author sums up the brief history of CPR in ancient China and claims that, the use of CPR in China was over one thousand years earlier than that of the Western countries, and it stimulates the birth of modern CPR technique.
authors.affiliation: Chengdu Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D016887:Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation / Q000266:history*; D002681:China; D049690:History, Ancient; D049692:History, Early Modern 1451-1600; D049691:History, Medieval; D049711:History, Modern 1601-