ABSTRACT
What Is Resuscitation? Resuscitation, a word derived from the Latin word meaning “to set in motion” , is
the term most commonly used to describe the emergent treatment o f the most se verely ill and injured patients. To the emergency physician, the term encompasses not only attempts to reanimate those patients in cardiopulmonary arrest, but the treatment o f virtually any diseases in the extremes o f presentation. Resuscitation is an active process that is intervention-oriented and often invasive. The emergency physician (EP) confronted with a resuscitation must multitask and “set into mo tion” a team o f health care workers which includes nurses, technologists and con sultants.
