Complex sentence: With the advent of these strategies, cardiac arrest came to be called "clinical death" rather than simply "death" to reflect the possibility of post-arrest resuscitation; for medical purposes, it is considered to be the final physical state before permanent death.
Split into simpler sentences: With the advent of these strategies, cardiac arrest came to be called "clinical death" rather than simply "death", to reflect the possibility of post-arrest resuscitation. For medical purposes, it is considered the final physical state before permanent death.