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Cerebral Hypoxia Learning Center

Prevention could include:
Prevention depends on the specific cause of hypoxia. Unfortunately, hypoxia is usually unexpected. This makes the condition somewhat difficult to prevent.
Source:ADAM
Date:September 22, 2008
CPR is a lifesaving procedure that is performed when someone's breathing or heartbeat has stopped, as in cases of electric shock, drowning, or heart attack. CPR is a combination of: Rescue breathing, which provides oxygen to a person's lungs; Ches...
Source:ADAM
Date:August 26, 2009
Attempting to restart breathing and heartbeat for someone whose breathing and pulse appear to have stopped. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) employs chest compressions in a sequential pattern with artificial respiration to restore or maintain w...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a procedure to support and maintain breathing and circulation for an infant, child, or adolescent who has stopped breathing (respiratory arrest) and/or whose heart has stopped (cardiac arrest).
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a procedure to support and maintain breathing and circulation for a person who has stopped breathing (respiratory arrest) and/or whose heart has stopped (cardiac arrest).
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a procedure to support and maintain breathing and circulation on a person who has stopped breathing (respiratory arrest) and/or whose heart has stopped (cardiac arrest).
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, commonly called CPR, combines rescue breathing (one person breathing into another person) and chest compression in a lifesaving procedure performed when a person has stopped breathing or a person's heart has stopped ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery
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