Artificial Respiration Definition

noun
The maintenance of breathing by artificial means, as by forcing breath into the mouth or by creating and relaxing pressure externally on the chest cavity at regular intervals.
Webster's New World
A procedure used to restore or maintain respiration in a person or animal that has stopped breathing. The method uses mechanical or manual means to force air into and out of the lungs in a rhythmic fashion.
American Heritage Medicine

The manual or mechanical forcing of air into the lungs of a person who is not breathing in order to maintain life.

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Other Word Forms of Artificial Respiration

Noun

Singular:
artificial respiration
Plural:
artificial respirations

Artificial Respiration Sentence Examples

  • Ammonia should be given by inhalation, and artificial respiration must never be forgotten, as by it the paralysed breathing may be compensated for and the poison excreted.

  • If death from asphyxia appears imminent artificial respiration may be resorted to.

  • Inject stimulants subcutaneously; give coffee - hot and strong - by the mouth and rectum, or use large doses of caffeine citrate; and employ artificial respiration.

  • It has, indeed, been asserted that, if relays of trained assistants are at hand, no one need die of opium poisoning, even if artificial respiration has to be continued for hours or days.

  • The first chap we got out, we applied artificial respiration for two hours.

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