How to Use cardiopulmonary in a Sentence

cardiopulmonary

adjective
  • Tisa Farrow died due to cardiopulmonary demise, according to the Vermont Department of Health.
    Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The cause of death was cardiopulmonary arrest -- Floyd's heart and lungs stopped.
    Ray Sanchez, Eric Levenson and Aaron Cooper, CNN, 16 Apr. 2021
  • His wife, Rachel Klein, said the cause was cardiopulmonary arrest.
    Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2019
  • The cause of death was cardiopulmonary arrest, according to The New York Times.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The cause was cardiopulmonary arrest, said a son-in-law, Bruce Martin.
    Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2018
  • The real question would be what the doctors believe to be the cause of said cardiopulmonary arrest.
    James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 16 June 2017
  • The cause was cardiopulmonary arrest, said a son, Daniel Kusrow.
    Washington Post, 18 July 2017
  • In around 25 percent of cases, the patient has to go on cardiopulmonary bypass, a machine that helps the heart handle the stress.
    Caitlin Dwyer, Longreads, 25 July 2019
  • The cause was cardiopulmonary arrest, his wife, Lisa Maxwell, said.
    Sam Roberts, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Doctors were able to put the man on a cardiopulmonary bypass, remove the damaged lung and repair the blood vessel.
    Katie Shepherd, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Zoe Kamitses, a longtime friend, said the cause was cardiopulmonary arrest.
    Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2022
  • The Salt Lake Tribune reports the surgery required a cardiopulmonary bypass.
    Jordan Culver, USA TODAY, 22 July 2019
  • The cause was cardiopulmonary dysfunction, said a son, Paul Meyers.
    Washington Post, 6 May 2018
  • The cause was cardiopulmonary failure, said a daughter, Susan Baumel.
    Staff Reports, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Cardiopulmonary arrest means the heart just stops beating, unlike a heart attack, the website said.
    Tony Hicks, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2017
  • His wife, Arabella Chavers Julien, said the cause was cardiopulmonary arrest.
    New York Times, 12 Jan. 2022
  • First responders found Martinez in cardiopulmonary arrest and paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.
    Alejandro Serrano, SFChronicle.com, 28 Jan. 2020
  • The cause was cardiopulmonary arrest, according to a statement on his website.
    BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2021
  • One large vein and one large artery are connected by tubes to a cardiopulmonary-bypass machine; a third tube washes the organ with a heart-stopping fluid.
    Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Instead, the death was deemed a homicide due to cardiopulmonary arrest resulting from neck compression and restraint with a Taser.
    Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Mary Tyler Moore, who died on Wednesday at age 80 from cardiopulmonary arrest, had no shortage of fans—both inside and outside of Hollywood.
    Laura Bradley, VanityFair.com, 25 Jan. 2017
  • Former Dodger pitcher Stan Williams died in February at the age of 84 after battling a cardiopulmonary illness.
    Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2021
  • The cause was cardiopulmonary arrest following a severe case of pneumonia, said a son, Zubaid Ahmad.
    Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022
  • His official website listed the cause of death as cardiopulmonary arrest.
    Jon Burlingame, Variety, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The county Medical Examiner ruled the death was a homicide caused by cardiopulmonary arrest while in a prone restraint.
    Greg Moran, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2021
  • Asphyxia would pin the blame more definitively on Mr. Chauvin, while cardiopulmonary arrest could be caused by many factors.
    New York Times, 29 Mar. 2021
  • Smith, who was a runner at Wake Forest, moved to Dallas in September to start a cardiopulmonary residency.
    Peter Warren, Dallas News, 11 Dec. 2022
  • The cause was pneumonia and cardiopulmonary arrest, said a daughter, Patricia Moore.
    Washington Post, 13 July 2018
  • Theodorakis died on Thursday, the result of cardiopulmonary arrest, according to a statement on his website.
    Jolie Lash, EW.com, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Her sister, Janine Dabney-Battle, said the cause was cardiopulmonary arrest.
    Claudia Bauer, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Oct. 2022

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