CPR

cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

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Contemporary Examples of cpr

After fifteen minutes of CPR he is pronounced dead and taken to a mortuary, where attendants see him breathing.
Real Life Lazarus: When Patients Rise From the Dead
Sandeep Jauhar
August 21, 2014
The cases share a kind of morbidity: A man, eighty, is pronounced dead after thirty minutes of CPR.
Real Life Lazarus: When Patients Rise From the Dead
Sandeep Jauhar
August 21, 2014
Some have speculated that cessation of CPR decreases pressure in the chest cavity, allowing blood to return to the heart.
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Sandeep Jauhar
August 21, 2014
The CPR was supposed to be the progressive counterweight among the troika of parties that governed Tunisia before Sheratongate.
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Thomas A. Bass
April 6, 2014
He said Murray was screaming while he was performing the CPR.
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British Dictionary definitions for cpr

CPR

abbreviation for

cardiopulmonary resuscitation

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Word Origin and History for cpr

by 1979, abbreviation of cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

cpr in Medicine

CPR

abbr.

cardiopulmonary resuscitation

cpr in Science

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.