NOUN
- absence of systole; failure of the ventricles of the heart to contract (usually caused by ventricular fibrillation) with consequent absence of the heart beat leading to oxygen lack and eventually to death
How To Use cardiopulmonary arrest In A Sentence
- Other diagnoses included sepsis, liver failure, neurological dysfunction, and recent cardiopulmonary arrest.
- Immediately after the surgical incision was made, she began decompensating and, within minutes, went into full cardiopulmonary arrest.
- She was hypoxemic for several minutes, which resulted in an expanding pneumothorax, a resultant mediastinal shift, and cardiopulmonary arrest. Handle with Care
- The most severe stages of acute asthma are respiratory failure, cardiopulmonary arrest, and death.
- Other diagnoses included sepsis, liver failure, neurological dysfunction, and recent cardiopulmonary arrest.
- He allegedly was over sedated and consequently suffered cardiopulmonary arrest with an ensuing irreversible anoxic brain injury.
- In Japan, where Tamiflu is liberally prescribed, the drug may have been responsible for 50 deaths from cardiopulmonary arrest, from 2001 to 2007, according to Rokuro Hama, the chair of the Japan Institute of Pharmacovigilance. Does the Vaccine Matter?
- The fractured rib had caused an expanding pneumothorax, a mediastinal shift, and cardiopulmonary arrest. Handle with Care
