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RESUSCITATION

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of reviving a person and returning them to consciousness

Example:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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)

Credits

 Context examples: 

A classification of myocardial infarction characterized by cardiogenic shock; an event with systolic BP less than 90 mmHg for greater than 30 minutes, not responsive to fluid resuscitation alone, and felt to be secondary to cardiac dysfunction.

(Killip Class IV, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

(CPR, NCI Dictionary)

An event in the personal medical history of sustained, inadequate tissue perfusion secondary to cardiac dysfunction, generally defined as systolic blood pressure of less than 90 mm Hg of more than 1 hour and not responsive to fluid resuscitation alone.

(History of Cardiogenic Shock, NCI Thesaurus)