GLOSSARY

• Jurisdiction: Australia

amnesties — drugs which produce (temporary) loss of memory, from the time the drug is given.

asystole — cardiac standstill or arrest; the absence of a heartbeat.

autonomic reflexes — those reflexes which come from that part of the nervous system which regulates non-voluntary bodily functions.

auscultation — the act of listening, with a stethoscope.

endoscopy — to look inside a body cavity or organ using a special illuminated telescope-like instrument.

endotracheal — in the trachea or windpipe.

end-tidal —...