If you resuscitate someone who has stopped breathing, you cause them to start breathing again. A policeman and then a paramedic tried to resuscitate her. + resuscitation re·sus·ci·ta·tion Despite attempts at resuscitation, Mr Lynch died a week later in hospital
return to consciousness; "The patient came to quickly"; "She revived after the doctor gave her an injection"
If you resuscitate something, you cause it to become active or successful again. He has submitted a bid to resuscitate the struggling magazine. = revive + resuscitation re·sus·ci·ta·tion The economy needs vigorous resuscitation. to make someone breathe again or become conscious after they have almost died revive (past participle of resuscitare, from suscitare )
(Tıp, İlaç) (Do Not Resuscitate) A do not resuscitate document is a binding legal document that states resuscitation should not be attempted if a person suffers cardiac or respiratory arrest. Abbreviated DNR, such an order may be instituted on the basis of an advance directive from a person, or from someone entitled to make decisions on their behalf, such as a health care proxy
act of reviving a person and returning them to consciousness; "although he was apparently drowned, resuscitation was accomplished by artificial respiration"