Hi all, does anyone know what "major resuscitation" means?

wow 2 litres is a LOT of blood to lose. what was the outcome? I think it would be very difficult to resuscitate this person as the amount of volume lost is significant. however I have worked traumas where we literally "dumped" bags of blood into a patient and they recovered normally. a lot depends on the physical condition, body temperature and other variables. I've been an ER/trauma nurse for just over 10 years.....we don't generally differentiate between a minor vs major resus.....we have code yellows or blues to determine the amount of personnel needed. where i work, this would have been a code blue....requiring two or more docs, all available nurses and ancillary staff. a major rescitation indeed. more than likely extreme measures were needed to at the very least stabilize this person.

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It just means that extreme measures were taken to get them stabilized with a normal spontaneous heart beat and respirations. For example, a "minor resuscitation" might include CPR and an automatic defibrilator, whereas a major resuscitation might include CPR, defibrillation, medications like epinephrine, replacement of blood products, possibly chest-cracking the person and trying direct defib or manual cardiac massage, or maybe an emergency angioplasty or other surgery.

I am not sure that this necessarily means the person was clinically dead...it may simply refer to the fact that the patient required a blood transfusion, chemical blood pressure support, or other interventions beyond simply giving IV fluid ("fluid resusitation"). Best thing would be to talk to attending physician and find out exactly what they had to do as part of the resusitation.

this means the person of which they did this too had died and been bought back to life.