McLennan Stuart
Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner, Auckland, New Zealand.
N Z Med J. 2008 Oct 17;121(1284):71-7.
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is now the standard treatment for someone having a cardiac arrest. It is, however, a procedure that has emerged only relatively recently. For a number of scientific and religious reasons, it was long considered impossible, even blasphemous, to attempt to reverse 'death'. Because of these factors, the area of resuscitation failed to progress until the Enlightenment in the 18th Century. The main elements of resuscitation were then developed over the next 200 years, and eventually brought together to create CPR in the early 1960s. The increased demands that morality was seen to place on the medical profession to combat sudden cardiac death subsequent to this development may have been an important factor in why CPR has come to be used in the widespread manner it currently is.
心肺复苏术（CPR）如今是心脏骤停患者的标准治疗方法。然而，这是一种相对较新才出现的程序。由于一些科学和宗教原因，长期以来人们认为试图逆转“死亡”是不可能的，甚至是亵渎神明的。由于这些因素，复苏领域直到18世纪的启蒙运动才取得进展。复苏的主要要素在接下来的200年里逐渐发展起来，并最终在20世纪60年代初整合在一起形成了心肺复苏术。在此发展之后，道德观念对医疗行业应对心源性猝死提出的更高要求，可能是心肺复苏术如今得以广泛应用的一个重要因素。
