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resuscitative

resuscitative

1 8.3
Helping to bring someone or something back to life
  • adjective
  • /rɪˈsʌsɪˌteɪtɪv/
  • Specialized
: reanimador
  • More scientific evidence is needed in the area of resuscitative outcomes and in discussions of the unique issues that patients and families face after this life-changing event.
  • resuscitative efforts

Examples

  • She coded and died despite intense resuscitative efforts.

    Blog text (29)
  • Injured patients who were evaluated by EMS personnel but did not survive were included, whether or not resuscitative efforts were undertaken at the scene.

    Academic text (2011)
  • I have been trained in mouth-to-mouth resuscitative measures.

  • In a student-directed class, however, resuscitative energy directed toward learning continues to take place for a very long time.

    Academic text (1999)
  • In patients with sepsis or septic shock, what are the effects of different resuscitative fluids on mortality?

    Academic text (2014)
  • In that year, the International Congress of Anesthesiology, concerned by ethical problems in the use of resuscitative measures, sought guidance from Pope Pius XII.

    Academic text (1997)
  • A recent large RCT in severe sepsis, with or without shock, was excluded from the NMA because protocol fluids were "not clearly resuscitative."

    Academic text (2014)
  • Troubled anesthesiologists asked for moral instruction to advise physicians as to when they had the right or obligation to begin artificial resuscitative measures on unconscious individuals and, most importantly, when they were obligated to cease such measures.

    Academic text (1997)
  • The paramedics administered resuscitative measures to revive the unconscious patient at the scene.

  • Effective resuscitative techniques can significantly improve the chances of survival in emergency situations.

Synonyms

reviving
vsresuscitative
1 3.6

Giving new energy and making someone feel awake again

applies to restarting life or function after unconsciousness or failure

Antonyms

42 7.5

Causing serious weakness that stops normal daily activities

How Reviving

lifesaving
17 3.5
resuscitative
  • Specialized
1 8.3
restorative
2 6.3
supportive
335 2.8

Surface Forms

resuscitative positive

Morphology

resuscitative = resuscitate (transparent) = resuscitate + ive

Clearly formed by adding an adjectival suffix to 'resuscitate', so the meaning 'relating to reviving' is directly predictable from the base.

Etymology

The word resuscitative comes from Latin parts re- meaning 'again' and suscitare meaning 'to wake or raise up'. So, a resuscitative action is one that 'brings back to life', which is why we use it for medical measures, repairs, or policies that revive someone or something.