CPR

abbreviation for

CPR

CPR

/ sē′pē-är′ /

Short for cardiopulmonary resuscitation. An emergency procedure in which the heart and lungs are made to work by manually compressing the chest overlying the heart and forcing air into the lungs. CPR is used to maintain circulation when the heart stops pumping, usually because of disease, drugs, or trauma.

She was administering CPR when an FDNY ambulance arrived and those paramedics took over.

The cases share a kind of morbidity: A man, eighty, is pronounced dead after thirty minutes of CPR.

We continued CPR while I called for an echo machine, which takes ultrasound pictures of the heart.

Some have speculated that cessation of CPR decreases pressure in the chest cavity, allowing blood to return to the heart.

After fifteen minutes of CPR he is pronounced dead and taken to a mortuary, where attendants see him breathing.

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