CPR
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After fifteen minutes of CPR he is pronounced dead and taken to a mortuary, where attendants see him breathing.
The cases share a kind of morbidity: A man, eighty, is pronounced dead after thirty minutes of CPR.
Some have speculated that cessation of CPR decreases pressure in the chest cavity, allowing blood to return to the heart.
The CPR was supposed to be the progressive counterweight among the troika of parties that governed Tunisia before Sheratongate.
He said Murray was screaming while he was performing the CPR.
CPR
- cardiopulmonary resuscitation
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Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
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Word Origin and History for cpr
by 1979, abbreviation of cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
CPR
- cardiopulmonary resuscitation
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The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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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.
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