fluid resuscitation

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.

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fluid resuscitation

Critical care medicine The infusion of isotonic IV fluids to a hypotensive Pt with trauma; aggressive FR may disrupt thrombi, ↑ bleeding, and ↓ survival

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