WordNet
n. an emergency procedure that employs rhythmic compression of the heart (either through the chest wall or, during surgery, directly to the heart) in an attempt to maintain circulation during cardiac arrest [syn: cardiac massage]
Usage examples of "heart massage".
They changed places, Vorkosigan taking over the heart massage, Cordelia pinching Bothari's nostrils shut and closing her mouth over his.
Two ImpSec men now knelt beside it frantically applying first aid: heart massage, oxygen, and hypospray injections.
He felt the steady, regular pressure of a heart massage, and the last thing he saw was the charge nurse leaning closer.
His imagination swept him away: Wu Aiping calling for medical assistance, the ambulance arriving, the attendants giving him oxygen, heart massage.
Elaine dropped her hands to Dumarest's chest, thrusting with the heels of her palms in the basic actions of heart massage.
Aragon straightened up and, with violent heaves, began emergency heart massage.
Then she was kneeling over Sullivan, gray eyes flicking up and down him and her round back rising and falling as she gave him external heart massage.