Artificial respiration

Artificial respiration is any means of assisting or stimulating respiration, a metabolic process referring to the overall exchange of gases in the body by pulmonary ventilation, external respiration, and internal respiration. It is respiration e.g. induced by some manipulative technique e.g. when natural respiration has ceased or is faltering. 
See: Respiratory Devices; Mechanical Ventilation: CPAP; Also known as: Artificial ventilation
E.g. mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, a form of artificial respiration. Such techniques, if applied quickly and properly, can prevent some deaths from drowning, choking, strangulation, suffocation, carbon monoxide poisoning, and electric shock.
See the history of artificial respiration.
See generally: Respiration