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resuscitation

nounC2Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,948 of 15,258neutral

Resuscitation is reviving somebody who has stopped breathing. Attempt resuscitation, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, resuscitation was successful.

Chest compressions are the part that matters most, hard and fast and barely interrupted, and bystander action roughly doubles survival — most people who could do it do nothing. Do not attempt resuscitation is a recorded decision made in advance. Note that the Latin means to raise up again, from citare, to rouse.

Definitions of resuscitation

  1. 1nounresuscitationReviving somebody who has stopped breathing.C2

    “The lifeguard began resuscitation as soon as the boy was pulled from the pool.”

resuscitation is a reviving.

Where it comes from

Latin resuscitatio comes from resuscitare — re plus sub plus citare, to rouse. Cite, excite and incite come from the same rousing.

  1. Latin

    resuscitātio

  2. Old French

    ressuscitacion

  3. Middle English

    resuscitacion

  4. English, today

    resuscitation

From Middle English resuscitacion, from Old French ressuscitacion and Latin resuscitātio. Equivalent to resuscitate + ion.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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resuscitation in the wild

  • The term is also sometimes used in resuscitation research.

    Clinical death

  • With the advent of these strategies, cardiac arrest came to be called clinical death rather than simply death, to reflect the possibility of post-arrest resuscitation.

    Clinical death

  • In some situations, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation is also performed separately, for instance in near-drowning and opiate overdoses.

    Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation

  • Adequate resuscitation and end-organ perfusion is best indicated by urine output of 0.5-1 mL/kg/h.

    Resuscitation

  • Heart rate, mental status, and capillary refill may be affected by underlying disease processes and are thus less reliable markers for adequate resuscitation.

    Resuscitation

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Related words

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