cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Questions about cardiopulmonary resuscitation

What does cardiopulmonary resuscitation mean?

cardiopulmonary resuscitation means "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".

What is another word for cardiopulmonary resuscitation?

Close synonyms include CPR, cardiac resuscitation, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, kiss of life. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cardiopulmonary resuscitation a common word?

cardiopulmonary resuscitation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.