How to Use resuscitation in a Sentence

resuscitation

noun
  • On the night of the resuscitation, Karenowska led a discussion about Keats on Zoom.
    Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2021
  • The victim died at the scene despite resuscitation efforts by paramedics, Davis said.
    Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Joette Barta recalled one of her customers giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a Dancing Granny in front of her store.
    Quinn Clark, Journal Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Knight said Hamlin required CPR and resuscitation on the field.
    John Wawrow, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Jackson doesn’t respond to resuscitation attempts and dies the same day.
    CNN, 6 Feb. 2022
  • The lifeguards and doctors worked frantically, pumping Medici’s chest with the flat of their hands while one gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
    New York Times, 20 Oct. 2021
  • When two people tried to help them by giving them mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, they too were exposed to fentanyl and had to be hospitalized.
    al, 15 Mar. 2022
  • In some cases, resuscitation can save the person, but no one tried chest compressions until the nurse arrived.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 2 Mar. 2022
  • Paramedics and emergency room staff were able to recover the boy’s pulse amid resuscitation efforts.
    BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2021
  • When a rescue boat arrived and pulled her out, despite an hour of resuscitation efforts, she was pronounced dead from drowning.
    Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2024
  • For every one-minute delay in resuscitation, the likelihood of survival falls by up to 10 percent.
    Gina Kolata, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023
  • If a swimmer needs help, a lifeguard not only pulls the person from the water but also often gives CPR and possibly mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
    Matt Canham, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Nov. 2021
  • The family told his doctors to end the resuscitation effort.
    Maya Miller, ProPublica, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Anderson presents the crux of Hunter's case: that Cayley's bruising was caused in part by resuscitation efforts at the hospital, and the organ donation process.
    Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2024
  • The previous resuscitation record for a nematode was set by an Antarctic species that started wriggling around again after just a few dozen years.
    Carolyn Y. Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 27 July 2023
  • Paramedics arrived and performed resuscitation efforts, but the detainee was pronounced dead, according to the IG.
    Geneva Sands, CNN, 19 July 2021
  • Authorities said a house sitter found a man in the bathtub in the home and resuscitation efforts were unsuccessful.
    Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2023
  • One witness said an officer on scene began giving the child mouth-to-mouth resuscitation before he was placed in an ambulance.
    NBC News, 24 July 2021
  • Hamlin lost his pulse on the field and needed to be revived through resuscitation and defibrillation.
    Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN, 27 July 2023
  • Literally in the clouds, Roy is brought low to the ground, spending the episode silently enduring futile resuscitation efforts.
    Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2023
  • And that allowed for very immediate resuscitation on the field.
    USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2023
  • To assist emergency units, police are trained in cardio-pulmonary resuscitation, and they are equipped with trauma kits.
    Olivia Mitchell, cleveland, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Patients whose hearts have stopped despite efforts of resuscitation, the county EMS said, should no longer be transported to hospitals.
    Alexandra Meeks and Christina Maxouris, CNN, 5 Jan. 2021
  • Patients who are not to be taken to hospitals include those whose hearts have stopped and, despite efforts at resuscitation, have no signs of breathing, movement, a pulse or blood pressure and would be declared dead at the scene.
    oregonlive, 5 Jan. 2021
  • In the Loreto region of the Peruvian Amazon alone, where the program helped 1,700 health care providers receive training on resuscitation techniques over the past four years, the area’s infant mortality rate has been cut in half.
    Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 6 May 2020
  • The exhilaration is in the thought of it, that sense of invigoration and resuscitation.
    New York Times, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Unlike similar efforts in the past, the training wasn’t centered around chest compressions or mouth-to-mouth resuscitation but on how to save someone from an opioid overdose.
    Isha Trivedi, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The emergency response team could not locate the patient to initiate timely resuscitation, and the patient died.
    Ruth Ann Dorrill, STAT, 18 June 2022
  • The Washington Post reports that resuscitation efforts lasted for less than an hour.
    Jeff Pegues, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The working group formed swiftly after the pandemic began, recognizing that even more lives were at risk if no safe form of resuscitation was found and publicized.
    Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2022

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