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Definition: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation |
Cardiopulmonary ResuscitationNoun1. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | The artificial substitution of heart and lung action as indicated for heart arrest resulting from electric shock, drowning, respiratory arrest, or other causes. The two major components of cardiopulmonary resuscitation are artificial ventilation and closed-chest cardiac massage. (references) |
Medicine | A prescribed sequence of steps including the establishment of a clear open airway, closed-chest cardiac massage, and drug treatments designed to restablish normal breathing following cardiac arrest. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | Emergency manoeuvres and measures applied to a seriously injured or sick person with the view to providing and ensuring vital functions of the heart, lungs and brain and to maintaining such basic support during the critical period. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: Cardiopulmonary ResuscitationSynonyms: cardiac resuscitation (n), kiss of life (n), mouth-to-mouth resuscitation (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation |
| Specialty definitions using "cardiopulmonary resuscitation": Lightning Injuries ♦ Respiratory Therapy. (references) |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cardiopulmonary resuscitation | 67 |
article cardiopulmonary resuscitation | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "cardiopulmonary resuscitation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | cardio-pulmonal genoplivning. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | CPR, cardio-pulmonaire resuscitatie, cardiopulmonaire reanimatie, reanimatie (emergency life support, resuscitation), hart-longreanimatie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | puhallus-paineluelvytys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | resuscitation cardio-pulmonaire, RCP. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Herz-Lungen-Reanimation. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καρδιοπνευμονική αναζωογόνηση,καρδιοπνευμονική ανάνηψη. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cure intensive di emergenza, rianimazione cardiopolmonare. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ardiopulmonarycay esuscitationray ressuscitação cardiopulmonar. (various references) cuidados intensivos de emergencia, reanimación cardiopulmorar, reanimación cardiopulmonar. (various references) hjärtlungräddning. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cardiopulmonar ressuscitation, cardiopulmonary resucitation. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
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HTML Code (1990) (references)C a r d i o p u l m o n a r y   R e s u s c i t a t i o n |
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