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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine wants emergency responders to learn CPR for animals.
The Advocate reports (http://bit.ly/22tiNGM) the school held a seminar on animal CPR and other dog emergencies March 13.
The principle is the same as human CPR.
Dr. Alan Ralph, an emergency and critical care specialist at MedVet New Orleans, says the first modern CPR occurred on a dog and grew out of a 1958 Johns Hopkins University study involving researcher James Jude.
Ralph says one of the research dogs went into cardiac arrest after being anesthetized and was saved after researchers starting compressing the animal's chest.
The dog recovered, and the concept of combining compressions with mouth-to-mouth breathing was born.
Seminar organizer Derecka Alexander said the school will offer the training again.
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