CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cardiopulmonary resuscitation mean? 

• CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION (noun)
  The noun CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION has 1 sense:

1. an emergency procedure consisting of external cardiac massage and artificial respiration; the first treatment for a person who has collapsed and has no pulse and has stopped breathing; attempts to restore circulation of the blood and prevent death or brain damage due to lack of oxygen

  Familiarity information: CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An emergency procedure consisting of external cardiac massage and artificial respiration; the first treatment for a person who has collapsed and has no pulse and has stopped breathing; attempts to restore circulation of the blood and prevent death or brain damage due to lack of oxygen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

cardiac resuscitation; cardiopulmonary resuscitation; CPR; kiss of life; mouth-to-mouth resuscitation

Hypernyms ("cardiopulmonary resuscitation" is a kind of...):

emergency procedure ((medicine) a procedure adopted to meet an emergency (especially a medical emergency))

resuscitation (the act of reviving a person and returning them to consciousness)

Meronyms (parts of "cardiopulmonary resuscitation"):

cardiac massage; heart massage (an emergency procedure that employs rhythmic compression of the heart (either through the chest wall or, during surgery, directly to the heart) in an attempt to maintain circulation during cardiac arrest)

artificial respiration (an emergency procedure whereby breathing is maintained artificially)

 Context examples 

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is for people whose hearts or breathing has stopped and the Heimlich maneuver is for people who are choking.

(First Aid, NIH)

A type of advance directive in which a person states that healthcare providers should not perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (restarting the heart) if his or her heart or breathing stops.

(DNR order, NCI Dictionary)

If you know how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), you could save a life.

(CPR, NIH)

You should give cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to a person having SCA until defibrillation can be done.

(Cardiac Arrest, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

Also called cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

(CPR, NCI Dictionary)