resuscitative

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Planning for medical catastrophes, like what kind of resuscitative measures should be taken and under what specific circumstances, isn't something people want to plan for in part because most people aren't regularly exposed to death, said Dr. Kendra Belfi, an internist who specializes in geriatrics.

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  1. Tending to resuscitate; reviving; revivifying; raising from apparent death; reproducing.
  2. Resuscitative faculty a name given by Sir William Hamilton to the reproductive faculty of the mind.

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  • Like other drugs with mu-opioid agonist activity, NUCYNTA (TM) is contraindicated in patients with significant respiratory depression, acute or severe bronchial asthma or hypercapnia in unmonitored settings or in the absence of resuscitative equipment. —  Health News from Medical News Today
  • Resuscitation team members should be sensitive to the presence of family members during resuscitative efforts, assigning a team member to the family to answer questions, clarify information, and otherwise offer comfort. —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
  • Recommendation 3 - Level D Invasive hemodynamic monitoring should be considered in those patients not promptly responding to initial resuscitative efforts. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • It appeared she had been overcome by smoke and fumes and rescue workers began resuscitative efforts and took her to St. Catherine's Hospital, where she was later pronounced dead. —  JSOnline.com
  • Rescue workers immediately began resuscitative efforts and took her to St. Catherine's Hospital, where she was later pronounced dead. —  JSOnline.com
 

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  1. from Old French resuscitatif, ressuscitatif, French ressuscitatif; as resuscitate + -ive.
 

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