give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation

You don't give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a zombie.

It used to be more complicated — you had to alternately press on the person’s chest and give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

Perhaps it seems too tedious or complicated; as recently as a decade ago, most students in a basic first-aid course spent six to eight hours in a classroom watching repetitive videos and trying to memorize a litany of different CPR counts and techniques for adults, children and infants, as well as learning how to take a pulse and contemplating whether we really wanted to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a stranger.

When paramedics arrived, three bystanders had surrounded the car while Prate attempted to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to his wife.

Mr. Alloul said a 16-year-old boy at the school had tried to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to one of the children, to no avail.