cardiac resuscitation
Noun: - An emergency medical procedure that combines external chest compressions (cardiac massage) and artificial respiration (mouth-to-mouth breathing or mechanical ventilation). It is the immediate first-aid treatment administered to a person who is in cardiac arrest, characterized by the absence of a pulse and breathing. The primary goals are to manually restore partial blood circulation and provide oxygen to vital organs to prevent death or permanent brain damage from oxygen deprivation.
This term is used in formal, medical, and emergency response contexts to describe the specific life-saving intervention for cardiac arrest. - Paramedics performed cardiac resuscitation on the patient at the scene. - The success rate of cardiac resuscitation outside a hospital is highly dependent on how quickly it is initiated.
- "to initiate/perform/administer cardiac resuscitation": This collocation describes the act of starting the procedure.
- The term is often part of the longer phrase "cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)", which is the more common and precise term for the same procedure. "Cardiac resuscitation" can be considered a slightly older or more specific term focusing on the heart component, though in modern usage, "CPR" is standard.
- CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation) (n): The standard acronym and term for the same emergency procedure, emphasizing support for both the heart () and lungs ().
- Resuscitation (n): The general act of reviving someone from unconsciousness or apparent death. "Cardiac resuscitation" is a specific type of resuscitation.
- Basic Life Support (BLS) (n): A broader level of emergency care that includes CPR/cardiac resuscitation as its core component.
- CPR: The direct and most common synonym.
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation: The full, formal term.
- Heart-lung resuscitation: A less common descriptive synonym.
- "to give CPR": The common verbal phrase for performing the procedure.
- "resuscitation efforts": A phrase often used by medical personnel to describe the ongoing attempt to revive a patient, which may include cardiac resuscitation/CPR.
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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
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