Frank Pantridge
Frank Pantridge CBE (born October 3, 1916 in Hillsborough , County Down , † December 26, 2004 ibid) was an Irish - British doctor and is considered the inventor of the portable defibrillator .
Life
Pantridge attended Friends School Lisburn and studied medicine at Queen's University of Belfast . During the Second World War he served in the British Army . After the Battle of Singapore (1940) he became a Japanese prisoner in 1942 and had to work as a prisoner of war on the construction of the Burmese railway. After his liberation (1945) he returned to Europe and continued to study medicine at Queen's University and then on a scholarship at the University of Michigan .
In 1950 he returned from the United States and worked as a doctor at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast . He became a professor of medicine at Queen's University of Belfast, where he remained until 1982. Together with his colleague John Geddes he specialized in cardiopulmonary resuscitation . In 1965 (1966) he succeeded in manufacturing the world's first vehicle-transportable defibrillator with an on-board power supply, weighing 50 kg. Now, for the first time, resuscitation of heart attack patients with the help of a defibrillator was possible on site, outside the hospital. In 1973 he developed the first "really portable" defibrillator, which had been reduced to 3.5 kg, in intermediate stages, using new techniques and integrating new features. With the publication of this invention, the portable defibrillator spread throughout the world in the following years.
Prizes and awards (selection)
- Officer of the Order of Saint John
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Monument in the city of Lisburn
Web links
- Defibrillator inventor honored , BBC, bbc.co.uk, June 11, 2009, accessed August 9, 2017.
- Orbituary Frank Pantridge , Guardian, theguardian.com, January 6, 2005, accessed August 9, 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ History of Innovation: HeartSine: A Life-Saving Legacy of Cardiac Defibrillators and Mobile Defibrillator Technology www.heartsine.com, accessed August 9, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pantridge, Frank |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish-British medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 3, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hillsborough , County Down, Northern Ireland |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 26, 2004 |
| Place of death | Hillsborough , County Down, Northern Ireland |