What is the concept of resuscitation?

Resuscitation is the process of correcting physiological disorders (such as lack of breathing or heartbeat) in an acutely ill patient. It is an important part of intensive care medicine, trauma surgery and emergency medicine. Well known examples are cardiopulmonary resuscitation and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

What is the difference between resuscitation and CPR?

CPR – or Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation – is an emergency lifesaving procedure performed when the heart stops beating. Immediate CPR can double or triple chances of survival after cardiac arrest. Immediate CPR can double or triple chances of survival after cardiac arrest.

How do you give a kiss of life?

If you give someone who has stopped breathing the kiss of life, you put your mouth onto their mouth and breathe into their lungs to make them start breathing again.

What is the aim of resuscitation?

The aim of neonatal resuscitation is to prevent neonatal death and adverse long-term neurodevelopmental sequelae associated with perinatal asphyxia. Substantial physiologic changes occur in the transition from fetal to extrauterine life including: the role of the placenta in gas exchange is taken over by the lungs.

What are drugs used in resuscitation?

The infrequent use of resuscitation medications has impeded rigorous investigations to determine the most effective agents and/or dosing regimens. The medications most commonly used during delivery room resuscitation include epinephrine, sodium bicarbonate, naloxone hydrochloride and volume expanders.

What does “do not resuscitate” really mean?

“Do not resuscitate,” commonly known as a DNR or Do-Not-Resuscitate Order, means that you do not want medical personnel to revive you if your breathing or heartbeat stop as a result of a terminal illness or life-threatening injury.

What does mouth-to-mouth resuscitation stand for?

Expired Air Resuscitation, also known as mouth to mouth resuscitation, involves the transferring of expired air from a person to a victim of drowning, etc. Being able to give a person a fresh lease on life is undoubtedly one of the rarest and purest gifts that one can give.