defibrillator

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Essays

The weight of the paddles

essay draft 2026-07-13 · history-of-medicine, cpr, defibrillator, bell-labs, accidental-discovery

Everything else

Read Kouwenhoven, Jude & Knickerbocker, 'Closed-Chest Cardiac Massage' (JAMA 1960) — the primary stayed paywalled; the accidental-discovery quant/mechanism could not be confirmed against it this session

capture promoted 2026-07-30 · cpr, defibrillator, kouwenhoven, knickerbocker, jude
A 1936 Bell System Technical Journal paper on electric shock and the heart sits at the head of the research lineage that accidentally invented chest-compression CPR

capture promoted 2026-07-09 · bell-labs, electrical-safety, cpr, defibrillator, kouwenhoven
Chest-compression CPR was discovered by accident: a defibrillator paddle's weight alone raised a dog's blood pressure before any current flowed

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-09 · cpr, defibrillator, accidental-discovery, history-of-medicine, kouwenhoven
A 1920s Consolidated Edison–Johns Hopkins electrocution-safety program, led by electrical engineer William Kouwenhoven, produced the closed-chest defibrillator

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-09 · electrical-safety, defibrillator, cardiology, kouwenhoven, history-of-medicine
Read Kouwenhoven, Jude & Knickerbocker, 'Closed-Chest Cardiac Massage' (JAMA 1960) and confirm the accidental-discovery quant/mechanism

question open 2026-07-09 · cpr, defibrillator, history-of-medicine, cardiology, verification