Definition of cardiopulmonary
: of or relating to the heart and lungs
Updated on: 14 Apr 2018
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These include the Cleveland Clinic, which collaborated with the high school this semester in a six-week project in cardiopulmonary education.
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These same symptoms typify many diseases, including heart failure pneumonia and asthma, and finding the cause sometimes comes down to an elaborate, expensive exam called a cardiopulmonary exercise test (CPET).
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Her death certificate, reviewed by The Post, lists four possible causes, a catalogue of overlapping debilities that in some combination killed her: cardiopulmonary arrest, hypoxia, pulmonary edema and morbid obesity.
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The cause was cardiopulmonary failure, said a daughter, Susan Baumel.
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This device is able to detect changes in pitch and soon will be able to detect asthma in children, pneumonia in the elderly, and, in conjunction with low-cost portable electrocardiographs, cardiopulmonary disease.
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On Monday afternoon, Sea Isle City police responded to a report of a medical emergency in the water found lifeguards and good Samaritans performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation on Brian C. Zwaan, 58.
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For the cardiopulmonary resuscitation itself, a human would still be needed to perform the actual act.
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The cause was cardiopulmonary arrest, said a son, Daniel Kusrow.
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First Known Use of cardiopulmonary
circa 1881
Medical Dictionary
medical Definition of cardiopulmonary
: of or relating to the heart and lungs
- the cardiopulmonary system
- a cardiopulmonary bypass that diverts blood from the entrance to the right atrium through an oxygenator directly to the aorta
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