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Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

"Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

The artificial substitution of heart and lung action as indicated for HEART ARREST resulting from electric shock, DROWNING, respiratory arrest, or other causes. The two major components of cardiopulmonary resuscitation are artificial ventilation (RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL) and closed-chest CARDIAC MASSAGE.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 575 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 51 publications in 2020
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.