RESUSCITATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does resuscitation mean? 

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

1. the act of reviving a person and returning them to consciousness

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESUSCITATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of reviving a person and returning them to consciousness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

although he was apparently drowned, resuscitation was accomplished by artificial respiration

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

resurgence; revitalisation; revitalization; revival; revivification (bringing again into activity and prominence)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "resuscitation"):

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

Derivation:

resuscitate (cause to regain consciousness)

 Context examples 

An event with systolic BP < 90 mmHg for greater than 1 hour, not responsive to fluid resuscitation alone, and felt to be secondary to cardiac dysfunction.

(History of Cardiogenic Shock, NCI Thesaurus)

End of life care: Should a patient receive nutrition? What about advance directives and resuscitation orders?

(Medical Ethics, NIH)

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

(CPR, NIH)

The date of a cardiac arrest event that was reversed, usually by cardio-pulmonary resuscitation and/or defibrillation or cardioversion, or cardiac pacing.

(Date of Resuscitated Cardiac Arrest, NCI Thesaurus)

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)

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)

The presence of cardiogenic shock (systolic BP less than 90 mm Hg) for greater than 30 minutes, not responsive to fluid resuscitation alone, and felt to be secondary to cardiac dysfunction.

(Killip Class IV, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime and annihilation of Edward a few weeks ago, had robbed her of one; the similar annihilation of Robert had left her for a fortnight without any; and now, by the resuscitation of Edward, she had one again.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Initial resuscitation includes administration of positive-pressure ventilation and chest compressions to empty the ventricles of the heart in an effort to circulate the blood, and also to stimulate the heart so that it will resume its pumping action.

(Cardiac Compression during Initial Resuscitation, NCI Thesaurus)