mouth-to-mouth resuscitation

mouth-to-mouth resuscitation

n.

A technique used to resuscitate a person who has stopped breathing, in which the rescuer presses his or her mouth against that of the victim and, allowing for passive exhalation, forces air into the lungs every few seconds. Also called mouth-to-mouth respiration.

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mouth-to-mouth resuscitation,

a procedure in artificial resuscitation, performed most often with cardiac massage. The victim's nose is sealed by pinching the nostrils closed, the head is extended, and air is breathed by the rescuer through the mouth into the lungs. See also cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

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resuscitation [re-sus″ĭ-ta´shun]

1. restoration to life or consciousness of one apparently dead, or whose respirations had ceased; see also artificial respiration.

2. in the nursing interventions classification, a nursing intervention defined as administering emergency measures to sustain life.

cardiopulmonary resuscitation see cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

resuscitation: fetus in the nursing interventions classification, a nursing intervention defined as administering emergency measures to improve placental perfusion or correct fetal acid-base status.

fluid resuscitation

1. the correction of fluid volume imbalances, especially in patients with burn injuries.

2. in the nursing interventions classification, a nursing intervention defined as administering prescribed intravenous fluids rapidly.

mouth-to-mouth resuscitation a method of artificial respiration in which the rescuer covers the patient's mouth with his own and exhales vigorously, inflating the patient's lungs.

resuscitation: neonate in the nursing interventions classification, a nursing intervention defined as administering emergency measures to support adaptation of the neonate to extrauterine life.