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Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR): First aid
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a lifesaving technique useful in many emergencies, including heart attack or near drowning, in which someone's breathing or heartbeat has stopped.
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Cardiopulmonary resuscitation: The emergency substitution of heart and lung action to restore life to someone who appears dead.
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Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
What is CPR?
CPR stands for cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Cardio refers to the heart. Pulmonary refers to the lungs. CPR is a way to give oxygen and keep the heart pumping when it has stopped beating.
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CPR, or cardiopulmonary resuscitation, is an important procedure for everyone to know. It has been responsible for saving many lives and can often sustain life until emergency medical care arrives.
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Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, usually known as CPR, provides temporary artificial breathing and circulation.
It can deliver a limited amount of blood and oxygen to the brain until a defibrillator becomes available.
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Cardiopulmonary resuscitationAn emergency procedure used to restore circulation and prevent brain death to a person who has collapsed, is unconscious, is not breathing, and has no pulse.
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CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) that is done improperly or on a person whose heart is still beating can cause serious injury. Do not perform CPR unless: ...
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Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
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Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) orders instruct physicians and other health care providers that a patient is not to undergo cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in the event of cardiac or pulmonary arrest.
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If the child is not breathing, begin cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
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Maintain your child's normal body temperature, and take the child to an emergency center.
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You can reduce your family's risk of death in a water accident by encouraging each teenage and adult family member to enroll in a cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) course.
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First aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation - Emergency life support
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The patient is unconscious, not breathing, and doesn't have a pulse. If available, electrical cardioversion must be administered as soon as possible. If not available, then cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) should be started.
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Treatment of acute myocardial infarction may include first aid in the form of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), an emergency balloon angioplasty, or the administration of beta-blockers and thrombolytic drugs (clot-dissolving drugs), ...
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