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Resuscitation

Resuscitation \Re*sus`ci*ta"tion\, n. [L. resuscitatio.] The act of resuscitating, or state of being resuscitated.

The subject of resuscitation by his sorceries.
--Sir W. Scott.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
resuscitation

early 15c., from Old French resuscitation or directly from Late Latin resuscitationem (nominative resuscitatio), noun of action from past participle stem of resuscitare (see resuscitate).

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resuscitation

n. The act of resuscitate.

WordNet
resuscitation

n. act of reviving a person and returning them to consciousness; "although he was apparently drowned, resuscitation was accomplished by artificial respiration"

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Resuscitation

Resuscitation is the process of correcting physiological disorders in an acutely unwell patient. It is an important part of intensive care medicine, trauma surgery and emergency medicine. Well known examples are cardiopulmonary resuscitation and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

Resuscitation (album)

Resuscitation is an album released by Detroit, Michigan electronic music duo ADULT. in 2001. Before this release, ADULT.'s output had consisted of various EPs and 12 inch singles released independently; this is actually a compilation album of many of their earlier singles. A bulk of the songs are presented on Resuscitation in remixed or re-recorded forms.

ADULT.'s members, Adam Lee Miller (music) and Nicola Kuperus (vocals and music) distributed the album on their own label, Ersatz Audio. Kurperus, a visual artist, is also responsible for the album's cover art photography.

Resuscitation (journal)

Resuscitation is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering research on cardiac arrest and cardiopulmonary resuscitation. It is an official journal of the European Resuscitation Council and is published by Elsevier. The editor-in-chief is Jerry Nolan ( University of Southampton). The journal is abstracted and idexed in Current Contents, Index Medicus/ MEDLINE/ PubMed, Embase, Scopus, and the Science Citation Index Expanded. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 4.167.

Usage examples of "resuscitation".

When he went back into the sphere, he urged the executive committee to meet with the resuscitation specialists.

So while public feeling mounted and the male and female halves of the human race drew up their battle lines against each other the six resuscitation expertsdecided to start with the woman.

Because of his knowledge of polar problems and his familiarity with the sphere, the egg and the couple, Lebeau had asked Simon to become a member of the resuscitation team.

No observers, not even himself, were permitted in the resuscitation chamber.

The workmen rebuilt the resuscitation room and the technicians repaired whatever was reparable, but much of the equipment was totally destroyed.

Ever since his stubbornness had almost turned out so tragically, the resuscitation team had deemed ATXul1024 himATXul0 a dangerous individual and had forbidden him to have anything to do with Elea.

But I beg you not to engage in any more such ventures, which endanger not only your lives, but the success of the resuscitation operations which will affect the fate of all mankind.

In the operating room the resuscitation team was going through the process of making themselves sterile, putting on their aseptic tunics and gloves and tying their cotton shoes.

The guards would telephone the resuscitation room, where three physicians and a number of nurses and technicians were maintaining uninterrupted surveillanceover Coban.

There were seventeen of them, of which three would have to be kept for Coban, Elea and the resuscitation teams.

After several minutes of total confusion the truth broke through the language barriers and the resuscitation team concentrated their efforts on saving Elea and the man whom everyone except Simon still thought to be Coban.

Hoover and Leonova were aboard the last helicopter flight with the resuscitation team.

He was surprised to learn that formal resuscitation research dated from the middle years of the past century.

After years of auditing his own department, he could read the chart of a resuscitation and run it like a movie in his head.

The only visible anomalies were a sutured incision with a retained drain on his lower right leg, the capped-off end of an intravenous line running into his left arm, and an endotracheal tube protruding from his mouth, left over from the resuscitation attempt.