T32 Scholar Dr. Michael Taylor Received the 2024 In Training Award from the Society of Critical Care Medicine
Associate Director, Shaun Carlson, selected as a Mellon Scholar of the Richard King Mellon Institute for Pediatric Research
Digital Version of Peter Safar’s Autobiography made available by the Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology
Drs. Corina Bondi and Mioara Manole receive Children’s Neuroscience Institute Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Award
T32 Scholar Dr. Michael Taylor Received the 2024 In Training Award from the Society of Critical Care Medicine
Michael Taylor, MD received the 2024 In Training Award from the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM).
Courtney Robertson, MD gives the 21st Annual Distinguished Alumna Award Lecture
Dr. Robertson was a graduate of our pediatric critical care medicine training program at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh (CHP) in 1999 and did research training at the Safar Center.
T32 Scholar Dr. Bailey Petersen Awarded 2-Year Early Investigator Seed Grant
T32 scholar Dr. Bailey Petersen was awarded a...
Safar Center investigators and collaborators receive two grants from the Chuck Noll Foundation
Two separate Safar Center investigators and...
The Safar Center for Resuscitation Research at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine was founded by the late Dr. Peter Safar in 1979, initially as the International Resuscitation Research Center
In recognition of Dr. Safar’s innumerable contributions to the field of resuscitation medicine, it was renamed the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research in 1994.
The Safar Center’s current research programs include Traumatic Brain Injury, Child Abuse, Cardiac Arrest, Emergency Preservation and Resuscitation, Hemorrhagic Shock, Combat Casualty Care, and Rehabilitation of CNS Injury. Center investigators work closely with the depts. of Critical Care Medicine, Surgery, Neurological Surgery, Anesthesiology, Emergency Medicine, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at both the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.
In addition to conducting basic research, the Safar Center also provides training to the next generation of resuscitation researchers. The Center is a 20,000 square-feet freestanding research facility that houses the laboratories of scientists and clinician-scientists working across a broad spectrum of fields important to resuscitation medicine.
The Safar Center for Resuscitation Research at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine was founded by the late Dr. Peter Safar in 1979, initially as the International Resuscitation Research Center
In recognition of Dr. Safar’s innumerable contributions to the field of resuscitation medicine, it was renamed the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research in 1994.
The Safar Center’s current research programs include Traumatic Brain Injury, Child Abuse, Cardiac Arrest, Emergency Preservation and Resuscitation, Hemorrhagic Shock, Combat Casualty Care, and Rehabilitation of CNS Injury. Center investigators work closely with the depts. of Critical Care Medicine, Surgery, Neurological Surgery, Anesthesiology, Emergency Medicine, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at both the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.
In addition to conducting basic research, the Safar Center also provides training to the next generation of resuscitation researchers. The Center is a 20,000 square-feet freestanding research facility that houses the laboratories of scientists and clinician-scientists working across a broad spectrum of fields important to resuscitation medicine.
Birth of CPR
Classic photo from 1956 of Dr. Peter Safar in the development of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation component of Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR). Dr. Safar is positioned behind the Anesthesia machine on the left, managing the airway. Dr. Safar is known as the father of modern day resuscitation.
Birth of CPR
Classic photo from 1956 of Dr. Peter Safar in the development of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation component of Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR). Dr. Safar is positioned behind the Anesthesia machine on the left, managing the airway. Dr. Safar is known as the father of modern day resuscitation.
The History of the Safar Center
The Safar Center was initially founded as the International Resuscitation Research Center (IRRC) in 1979 by Dr. Peter Safar. In the late 1950s, Dr. Safar pioneered the development of the ABCs (airway, breathing, circulation) of resuscitation, including the technique of “mouth-to-mouth” resuscitation, and assembled these techniques, together with others, into what is currently known and implemented as cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
The study and application of additional steps of advanced and prolonged life support led to the development of the concept of cardiopulmonary cerebral resuscitation (CPCR).