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Who invented Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)?

with so much hype of learning CPR I would like to know who invented
it?Did he or she realize the importance of it when they invented it.I would like to know.

<>Peter Safar
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/safar.html

http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.j...

This may answer your question.

"1891 Dr. Friedrich Maass performed the first equivocally documented chest compression in humans.
1903 Dr. George Crile reported the first successful use of external chest compressions in human resuscitation.
"http://www.americanheart.org/presente...

This is a history resuscitation that begins in 800 BC.
http://www.ukdivers.net/history/cpr.htm

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