mouth-to-mouth resuscitation

English

Noun

mouth-to-mouth resuscitation (usually uncountable, plural mouth-to-mouth resuscitations)

1. A first aid technique to return an unconscious person's respiration by pressing the rescuer's mouth against the mouth of the patient and blowing air into his/her lungs.

Related terms

• mouth-to-mouth

Translations

first aid technique

• Czech: dýchání z úst do úst n
• Finnish: suusta-suuhun tekohengitys, puhalluselvytys
• French: bouche-à-bouche (fr) m
• German: Mund-zu-Mund-Beatmung (de) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: respiração boca-a-boca f
• Romanian: reanimare gură la gură f
• Russian: дыха́ние изо рта в рот n (dyxánije izo rta v rot), иску́сственное дыха́ние рот-в-рот n (iskússtvennoje dyxánije rot-v-rot)
• Welsh: adfywio ceg wrth geg

See also

• cardiopulmonary resuscitation
• CPR