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resuscitation

ri suh si tay shuhn

  • n  the act of reviving a person and returning them to consciousness
    although he was apparently drowned, resuscitation was accomplished by artificial respiration

  • Typical options for end-of-life care include prolonging life at all cost, including cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and mechanical ventilation; limited care, including .
  • Fellow crew members dragged Irwin from the water and began cardio-pulmonary resuscitation while racing their boat Croc One to meet a rescue helicopter.
  • If resuscitation is begun within six minutes, so that oxygenated blood resumes its flow to the brain, the switchover from anaerobic glycolysis will nevertheless be gradual and .
News & Articles

  • Time for teams to rely on phenoms like Puig?
    Ken Rosenthal has been the senior baseball writer for FOXSports.com since August 2005. He appears weekly on MLB on FOX. Follow him on Twitter. Does anyone else find it odd that the big-money Dodgers , like the big-money Angels a year ago, required mouth-to-mouth resuscitation from a relative novice?
    June 11, 2013 - MSN
Quotes

  • George HW Bush in Forbes
    The ugliest part of what happened was that my (male) friend ...... gave me mouth-to-mouth resuscitation,Bush said with a smile.
  • Wen Jiabao in Xinhua
    Only when each nation makes effective stimulus measures together can the world economy step out of difficulty and realize resuscitation,Wen said to more than fifty foreign delegates at the three-day China Development Forum that started Saturday.
  • Peter Carter in guardian.co.uk
    Peter Carter, general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, said: "This guidance should help spare patients and their families the heartache and indignity of repeated and sometimes unnecessary resuscitation attempts. It will also mean that when...

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