Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Resuscitation \Re*sus`ci*ta"tion\, n. [L. resuscitatio.]
   The act of resuscitating, or state of being resuscitated.

         The subject of resuscitation by his sorceries. --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.

Source : WordNet®

resuscitation
     n : act of reviving a person and returning them to
         consciousness; "although he was apparently drowned,
         resuscitation was accomplished by artificial respiration"