CPR
88
3.3
- noun
- /siː piː ɑr/
- Specialized
:
reanimación cardiopulmonar
- She felt confident performing CPR because she had taken the training course last year.
- use CPR
- resuscitation (CPR)
- cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
So you're not actually saving someone's life by doing CPR, you're buying them time.
- So you're not actually saving someone's life by doing CPR, you're buying them time.
- And as that was, as I was giving him CPR, looking literally looking into his dead eyes.
- She started doing CPR on the dog and and they couldn't get it.
- It's a very, very rare circumstance where we would not do CPR.
- We would be able to sustain their life for a little while doing CPR.
- Dispatch is walking us through proper CPR.
- If your heart stops, you can keep someone alive for like hours by giving them CPR.
- And there is a story of you performing CPR on someone for two hours on the mountain and still that person died.
- And I mean, this brave guy came over and, and he's suddenly the bravest dude in the room 'cause he knew skills to do CPR.
- Look at how in films, CPR always works.
- So me and my colleague, we, we fought to do CPR on him and we got the ambulance come in and we did all the things we had to do and did everything.
- They did CPR and it was of no use.
- I mean, taking a two or three day CPR class, EMT stuff.
Examples
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Credible personal trainers also should have references, CPR training, and liability insurance.
Academic text (2001) -
Individuals can learn about CPR through many resources, including physicians, nurses, friends, personal experiences, or CPR courses.
Academic text (2007) -
So CPR is performed on people who have died, basically.
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"Expert in first aid and CPR."
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And so they did CPR but could not revive him.
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I drove by the school and they were performing CPR on this little girl in a canary suit.
Fiction book (1992) -
The message is that compressions are more important than full CPR: in an emergency, chest compressions can save lives.
Academic text (2012) -
Learning CPR can help save a life in an emergency situation.
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After the accident, the paramedic immediately started CPR to revive the patient.
Synonyms
22
6.1
A medical way of bringing someone back to life after they stop breathing or are unconscious
1
3.7
A medical emergency method using chest pushes and mouth breaths to restart a person's heart and breathing
An emergency procedure to restart breathing and blood flow
How Intense
- Specialized
42
3.4
- Specialized
1
3.7
- Specialized
88
3.3
61
2.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
CPR = cardiopulmonary resuscitation (opaque) = C + P + R
The initialism 'CPR' cannot be decoded from the individual letters by an average learner; understanding depends on knowing the expanded phrase.
Etymology
CPR comes from the full phrase cardiopulmonary resuscitation, where cardio- means 'heart', pulmonary means 'lung', and resuscitation means 'to bring back to life'. So CPR is the emergency action used to restart someone's breathing and heartbeat.