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Artificial respiration   /ˌɑrtəfˈɪʃəl rˌɛspərˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Artificial respiration

noun
1.
An emergency procedure whereby breathing is maintained artificially.






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"Artificial respiration" Quotes from Famous Books



... they were glad to let him take his turn, when the toil drove off the terrible chill from which he was suffering, and he worked at the artificial respiration plan, growing stronger ...
— The Weathercock - Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias • George Manville Fenn

... is required. You must get air into his lungs again immediately or he may die. The best and simplest way of doing this is to use mouth-to-mouth artificial respiration. Here is how ...
— In Time Of Emergency - A Citizen's Handbook On Nuclear Attack, Natural Disasters (1968) • Department of Defense

... mother stood and watched. 'Don't give him up, doctor!' she cried, as at last the doctor straightened himself and paused, looking at the mother sorrowfully. He shook his head, but set to work again, trying artificial respiration, and leaving no effort untried to bring back the life that had ...
— Teddy's Button • Amy Le Feuvre

... radical cure. The house surgeon, Mr. Oliphant, M.B., C.M. Edin., administered chloroform from lint. In about eight minutes the breathing ceased, the operation not having then been commenced. Upon artificial respiration being adopted the child appeared to rally, but sank almost immediately and died within two minutes. The necropsy showed no organic disease. At the inquest the coroner asked Dr. Oliphant whether an inhaler was not a better means ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898 • Various

... of performing artificial respiration in the case of the apparently drowned are the following (the best and most easily performed is Schaefer's prone ...
— Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology • W. G. Aitchison Robertson



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