unresuscitable
Cannot be revived
Unable to be resuscitated or revived.
The term appears primarily in medical contexts, describing patients who cannot be brought back from cardiac arrest or other life-threatening states despite intervention: The patient was declared unresuscitable after forty minutes of CPR.
By extension, it can describe anything beyond saving: an unresuscitable career, an unresuscitable marriage.
Cannot be fixed
- irrecoverableImpossible to regain
- unsalvageableImpossible to recover
- irremediableImpossible to correct
- permanentFixed without end
beyond repair · unrestorable · unrectifiable · unmendable · point of no return · past saving · too far gone · irredeemable
Incapable of producing results
- hopelessBeyond possibility of success
- lost causeEndeavor certain to fail
- doomedDestined for destruction
- defeatedOvercome in contest
beyond help · impossible · desperate · forlorn · bleak · helpless · inevitable · resigned
End-of-life medical directive
- asystoleZero cardiac electrical activity
- flatlineShow no heartbeat
- cardiac arrestAbrupt cessation of circulation
- CPREmergency revival technique
defibrillation · life support · code blue · pronouncement · time of death · withdrawal of care · brain death · clinical death
irreparable
Cannot be fixed
- irrecoverableImpossible to regain
- unsalvageableImpossible to recover
- irremediableImpossible to correct
permanent · beyond repair · unrestorable · unrectifiable · unmendable · point of no return · past saving · too far gone · irredeemable · fatal
futile
Incapable of producing results
- hopelessBeyond possibility of success
- lost causeEndeavor certain to fail
- doomedDestined for destruction
beyond help · defeated · impossible · desperate · forlorn · bleak · helpless · inevitable · resigned · abandoned
DNR
End-of-life medical directive
- asystoleZero cardiac electrical activity
- flatlineShow no heartbeat
- cardiac arrestAbrupt cessation of circulation
CPR · defibrillation · life support · code blue · pronouncement · time of death · withdrawal of care · brain death · clinical death · pulseless
unresuscitableresuscitable
Able to be revived
revivable · salvageable · recoverable · viable · saveable
resuscitate, resuscitated, resuscitating, resuscitation, resuscitator, resuscitable, cite, excite, excited