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* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': At the end of "[[Recap/CSINYS03E09 And Here's to You, Mrs. Azrael]]", Sheldon sees a man get hit by a car and rushes over to help. He clears the man's airway and administers CPR which induces coughing. Not immediately recognizing Sheldon as a doctor, an EMT on scene tells him he just saved the man's life.

* Episodes of both ''Series/LawAndOrder'' and ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' have had HIV-transmission scares from giving artificial respiration, so yay for recognizing that stuff can be transmitted. Even better, both series also note that it's vastly unlikely for HIV to go through saliva.
** ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' also had at least one episode where a victim was found to have bruises on his chest from someone performing CPR on him. Plus, there was a case of a drug-addicted doctor who broke a little girl's ribs, which punctured her heart, killing her.

* The fourth season opener of ''Series/{{NUMB3RS}}'' plays with this, with David Sinclair performing CPR on [[spoiler:Colby Granger after Colby is injected with potassium chloride]]. However, very little of the process is actually shown in the episode before the scene cuts away, so the trope, whether subverted or played straight, is pretty much avoided.

-->'''Rean''': Every time I think anything positive about you, you go and say something like that...

* In ''VideoGame/TraumaCenter: Under The Knife'' and ''Trauma Center: New Blood'', a few operations have the patient go into flatline and you have to restart the heart with a hand massage. (In some other games and situations, the MagicalDefibrillator is used instead.) Sometimes you have to do this even when the patient isn't cut open yet, and there's no mention of damaged ribs afterwards.
* In ''[[VideoGame/ChzoMythos Trilby's Notes]]'', the title character [[spoiler:is revived via CPR after a ''fatal stab wound.'' The sequel reveals that he was really revived by gaining the life force from a future clone]].
* Played straight (but just to mess with you) in ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'', where [[spoiler: Larry has a heart attack and you have a choice; bash his head in or perform CPR]]. If you're fast enough on the CPR they will come around [[spoiler: but only for a second before their head is crushed with a salt lick. It could be that he's coming back as a walker]].

** Deconstructed in "Nothing Can Stop the Juggernaut", where Spider-Man first fights the Juggernaut. After the villain yanks Madame Webb from her life support device, Spidey uses rescue breathing on her until the paramedics come, and she is clearly much worse for wear once she is stabilized, taking months to recover. (Although she doesn't suffer the brain damage the doctor feared she would.)

* In ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' story arc "Red Zone", [[Characters/MarvelComicsSteveRogers Captain America]] is exposed to a contagious evil bacteria and stops breathing. Saying, "Sorry Tony... but Captain America's [[MoreExpendableThanYou more important than you]]", ComicBook/IronMan immediately takes off his helmet (exposing himself to the contagious disease) and starts mouth-to-mouth. ([[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything With dramatic lighting]] and [[HoYay close-ups!]]) The "CPR revives people by itself" aspect is theoretically averted, as his goal is to keep Cap alive until he can be rescued, but ultimately used straight as, minutes later, ComicBook/IronMan is passed out and Cap is weak and disoriented, but on his feet. Then again, given the super soldier serum involved, possibly Tony only had to keep Steve breathing long enough for the serum to fight off the virus.

* In VideoGame/BladeAndSoul, summoners teach their pet CAT to perform CPR on dead characters. The skill is known as "Helping Paw". In the Korean original, it's outright called CPR. The cat hops on the dead character and performs Hollywood-style chest compression, despite not really having enough weight or strength to do it. It's not even constant, with the cat pausing every few seconds to perform mouth to mouth as well. If not interrupted (takes 20 seconds), the dead character is always successfully revived, no matter how long they have waited, as long as the character has not released the corpse and respawned. It's adorable.

** In the novel ''Literature/StormFront'', [[spoiler:Morgan]] [[TheCavalry having rescued Harry from the burning building]], revives him using CPR. Neither of them is terribly happy about it, but it worked.

* Subverted in ''Fanfic/NaturalSelection''. The flashback that shows where the timeline of ''Anime/KillLaKill'' [[ForWantOfANail changed]] is with Soichiro trying to revive baby Ryuko this way, and it's shown as a desperate, futile act that cracks the man's psyche when one of her ribs breaks. It's only thanks to the newly implanted Life Fibers in her system that she wakes up at all. He does perform it correctly though, only using two fingers to compress the chest without mouth-to-mouth contact.

* In ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' story arc "Red Zone", [[Characters/MarvelComicsSteveRogers CaptainAmerica is exposed to a contagious evil bacteria and stops breathing. Saying, "Sorry Tony... but Captain America's [[MoreExpendableThanYou more important than you]]", ComicBook/IronMan immediately takes off his helmet (exposing himself to the contagious disease) and starts mouth-to-mouth. ([[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything With dramatic lighting]] and [[HoYay close-ups!]]) The "CPR revives people by itself" aspect is theoretically averted, as his goal is to keep Cap alive until he can be rescued, but ultimately used straight as, minutes later, ComicBook/IronMan is passed out and Cap is weak and disoriented, but on his feet. Then again, given the super soldier serum involved, possibly Tony only had to keep Steve breathing long enough for the serum to fight iff the virus.

** Averted in ''VideoGame/BlackMesa'': the scientist constantly performs chest compressions to the guard, but he doesn't recover.
** ''VideoGame/HalfLifeOpposingForce'' had another scientist in the middle of performing CPR on a soldier just as Shephard wakes up at the beginning of the game. After a few seconds, the scientist gives up and addresses Shephard, saying that at least "[his] life-saving efforts weren't ''completely'' in vain".

* ''Series/BabylonBerlin'': Spread over the last two episodes of the second season, Gereon's and Charlotte's car is run off the road by a villain and crashes into a lake. Gereon makes repeated attempts to rescue her from the car, including breathing air into her mouth to keep her alive, but is unable to free her before she apparently drowns. He makes a final, successful attempt to get her out of the car, and makes a couple of brief attempts to perform CPR, after which she [[CliffhangerCopout miraculously regains consciousness]]. Admittedly she spews up a load of water, and is semiconscious for a while until she's taken to hospital, but she was still underwater and apparently dead for what looked like several minutes. (Also, the show is set in 1929, before modern CPR was invented.)

* BabylonBerlin: Spread over the last two episodes of the second season, Gereon's and Charlotte's car is run off the road by a villain and crashes into a lake. Gereon makes repeated attempts to rescue her from the car, including breathing air into her mouth to keep her alive, but is unable to free her before she apparently drowns. He makes a final, successful attempt to get her out of the car, and makes a couple of brief attempts to perform CPR, after which she miraculously regains consciousness. Admittedly she spews up a load of water, and is semiconscious for a while until she's taken to hospital, but she was still underwater and apparently dead for what looked like several minutes. (Also, the show is set in 1929, before modern CPR was invented.)

* It's '''pretty''' because it rarely results in anything nasty like extreme exhaustion, or breaking the victim's ribs, or the victim [[VomitIndiscretionShot vomiting]] on the off chance he or she wakes up. Instead, everybody gets to look nice and pretty, there's [[KissOfLife kissing]] [[ShipTease involved]], and the rescuer even gets to [[ShirtlessScene remove the victim's shirt]]. This makes knowing CPR a very heroic thing on TV, and can occasionally lead to characters who jump in to perform CPR just to steal a kiss from the victim (or to fake unconsciousness to steal a kiss from the rescuer). On the other hand, the heightened sexual tension can cause issues if the rescuer is not attracted to the victim (particularly [[GayMoment if they're the same sex]]).

* Used in the first ''Film/JurassicPark'', after Tim was electrocuted by the fence Dr. Grant spent a few moments trying to bring him back, which worked so well Tim finished his last sentence. Though they did make some token gestures indicating that he was not completely fine, such as burnt hands, bleeding ears and a limp for the rest of the movie.

Averted in ''Literature/MermaidMoon''. [[spoiler:After Peder is [[ScaryStingingSwarm stung to death]], his mother Thyrla pinches his nose shut and breathes into his mouth until she's exhausted but fails to revive him.]]

* ''Anime/AngelBeats'': Episode 9 shows us some of Otonashi's back story, which reveals [[spoiler:several more hours' worth of memories before his death, which mostly involve him administering basic medical aid to the survivors of the subway train crash he was in]]. This includes an instance of CPR which is a lot more realistic than usual. It's dirty, exhausting and [[spoiler:doesn't work]], and it also sticks to the rule of only giving up if you become too exhausted to continue. [[spoiler:Otonashi had to eventually, it isn't clear how long he kept it up, but a rescue attempt was several days away -- what with them being caved in -- and Otonashi himself was suffering from the injuries that would eventually kill him just before said rescuers showed up.]]

* A variation in ''Manga/Life2002''. [[spoiler:Miki]] had fainted, so Ayumu attempted to revive her by giving her water. She couldn't do it though, so she instead drank some water and swapped it with her. Despite how gross that sounds, it didn't look as bad as it seems.
* ''Manga/MagicalGirlSpecOpsAsuka'': the "pretty" part is teased during a CPR training episode, where Kurumi "wishes she were" the training mannequin that Asuka was demonstrating on.
* Averted in ''Manga/{{Monster}}'': It's obviously a wasted, desperate effort and the dude obviously stays dead, but the doctor continues CPR regardless.

* ''Literature/{{Oreshura}}'', from Episode 5: Eita is forced to do this for Masuzu shortly after he rescues her from drowning in the school's swimming pool. He calls for the teacher but notices that the teacher is giving CPR to another student. And as he does this, he hears some {{Squee}} from his classmates as he "kisses" her. Later in the episode, while watching over his sick ChildhoodFriend Chiwa, she talks in her sleep about wanting "CPR" from him as well, having gotten a text about the CPR he gave Masuzu earlier.

%% * The ''Literature/{{Sukisho}}'' anime has a particularly egregious example in episode 7.

%% * Episode 9 of ''Anime/YosugaNoSora''.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'': This used with some justification in the episode "Hunter's Moon," where one gargoyle, Angela, is seriously wounded and the clan's human ally Elisa performs CPR. Here, the point is not to revive her, but to keep her alive for just a few minutes until the sun rises -- gargoyles turn to stone at dawn, but during their stone sleep they heal of even the most serious injuries. When she "wakes up" that evening Angela is at full strength and ready to go back into battle.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'': Minx nearly drowns in one episode. Rio somehow revives her by using some subpar CPR tactics.

** [[TheyKilledKennyAgain Kenny]] gets this from his girlfriend Kelly, after being struck by lightning in "Rainforest Shmainforest." (It's played for comedy that Kenny's friends never even ''thought'' to help him before.) A scene or two later he's up and dancing at the kids' scheduled performance.
** Played more realistically in "Imaginationland, Part 2." Despite the typical PlayedForDrama "live, damn it" reaction from [[TokenEvilTeammate Cartman]], when [[TheSmartGuy Kyle]] is revived he mostly just coughs and possibly passes out again; we next see him waking up in a hospital bed. This was, of course, a line-for-line parody of the infamous scene in ''Film/TheAbyss''.

* In the manga of ''Manga/AirGear'', Agito is somehow able to perform this with a ''bamboo stick''. And it works, no other life support necessary.
* Episode 9 of ''Anime/AngelBeats'' shows us some of Otonashi's back story, which reveals [[spoiler:several more hours' worth of memories before his death, which mostly involve him administering basic medical aid to the survivors of the subway train crash he was in]]. This includes an instance of CPR which is a lot more realistic than usual. It's dirty, exhausting and [[spoiler:doesn't work]], and it also sticks to the rule of only giving up if you become too exhausted to continue. [[spoiler:Otonashi had to eventually, it isn't clear how long he kept it up, but a rescue attempt was several days away -- what with them being caved in -- and Otonashi himself was suffering from the injuries that would eventually kill him just before said rescuers showed up.]]

* Rahzel performed CPR on Rayborn in chapter 34 of ''Manga/{{Dazzle}}'' after his fake suicide attempt backfires. Perhaps more realistic because he passes out afterwards, but that's cancelled out by Rahzel's decision [[IdiotBall not to take him to a hospital because she thought he'd be embarrassed to wake up surrounded by doctors and his family.]]
* In episode 1 of ''Manga/DestinyOfTheShrineMaiden'', after catching Himeko from a fall (how this would have stopped her heart is not explained), Chikane rips open her shirt, pauses to fondle one breast, and then does two chest compressions. Himeko promptly moans, demonstrating that she's revived.
* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''Anime/ExcelSaga'' when the municipal employees are unwittingly sent to locate the ACROSS base: Iwata goes through all the proper steps in administering CPR in a bid to get to kiss the unconscious Matsuya, including calling out for someone to retrieve a medical professional, despite the fact that they are stranded in Fukuoka's sewers without another living soul in earshot. She recovers before their lips make contact; despite it being blatantly obvious Iwata was trying to steal a kiss from her, she actually goes easy on the inevitable retaliation (that is, he lives) out of respect for him doing everything by the book. Played dead straight when Iwata is later forced to resuscitate his ''male'' teammates with CPR.
* The first episode of ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'' [[RuleOfFunny played it for laughs]], as the victim ''clearly'' didn't need CPR.

* After an encounter with a lake demon in ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'' leaves Sango unconscious, [[ChivalrousPervert Miroku]] decides that he needs to resuscitate her -- only to be left protesting his innocence after Sango regains consciousness to find his face inches from hers and comes to the predictable conclusion, with the predictable result.

* In the second volume of ''Manga/JyuOhSei'', [[spoiler:Thor]], after fighting the Top, is wounded so severely that his heart stops. Third and Tiz perform CPR on him pretty accurately, but what really takes the cake for being over the top is when Third starts slapping [[spoiler:Thor]]; what's worse is that it alone ''is what actually revives him!''

* In ''Manga/MagicalGirlSpecOpsAsuka'', the "pretty" part is teased during a CPR training episode, where Kurumi "wishes she were" the training mannequin that Asuka was demonstrating on.

* CPR is performed on a drowned girl in the first episode of ''Anime/MyHime'', after some brief awkwardness, but no one thinks to procure proper life support in the event she ''doesn't'' recover on her own. Naturally, she does, spitting up some token water in the process.
* In chapter 1, episode 1 of ''Manga/NagasareteAirantou'', Suzu administers the KissOfLife to a half-drowned Ikuto, nearly killing him in the process (inflating him like a balloon, whereupon he flies in a circle before landing back where he started).
* Sakura from ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' performed CPR on [[spoiler:Naruto in order to keep him alive after Kurama was extracted]]. This was explicitly noted to be a stop-gap measure until [[spoiler:they could seal the other half of Kurama into him.]] Sakura even used a different medical technique, [[spoiler:internal cardiac massage -- ''i.e.'' cutting the patient open and massaging the heart by hand, which was one way to do CPR in real life before it was invented]].

* At least in the manga, Ranma from ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' is shown to do a variation of this to Miss Hinako (who is shown to comically vomit up water like a fountain) and implied to do so to [[SuperDrowningSkills Akane]] a few times. Even extending the usual CallingYourAttacks habit to it:

* In ''Manga/RaveMaster'', when Haru is unconscious after his fight with Lance, the older Musica proposes artificial respiration to try and revive him. Elie volunteers and is going to put her lips on his when he wakes up. Haru greets her cheerfully. He gets slugged.
* In ''Manga/TheRedRangerBecomesAnAdventurerInAnotherWorld'', Idola resuscitates Red with CPR after he's knocked unconscious and falls into a river. It works without a hitch, and Idola's only concern is that she had to give up her FirstKiss to him to do it.

* In ''Anime/StarDriver'', Wako preforms CPR on Takuto after finding him washed up on the shore. Later the characters discuss the romantic implications.

* In one of the last episodes of ''Anime/WolfsRain'', [[spoiler:Hubb and Cheza]] perform CPR on [[spoiler:Quent]] when he starts having strange breathing spasms. It's bad enough that they're doing CPR when he clearly has a pulse and respiration, but to make matters worse [[spoiler:Hubb]] speculates that the spasms might be due to internal bleeding or shock from dehydration, neither of which CPR would help with -- in fact, it would most likely only exacerbate the former.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' episode "Unrestrainable Trainable", Foxxy Love performs CPR on Wooldor Sockbat after he's pushed into the pool by Clara in an attempt to baptize him when she mistook him for a Jew. To her defense, the show isn't exactly known for playing by the laws of reality.

* In ''Toys/EverAfterHigh'' Darling resuscitates [[spoiler:Apple White]] from a magic-induced coma by blowing air into her mouth. It looks [[HomoeroticSubtext suspiciously more like a kiss]] than any form of CPR.
* Hilariously parodied on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' when ChivalrousPervert Glenn Quagmire (during a test to see if some therapy to make him non-perverted worked) suddenly loses control and runs into the security room in a clothing store. There he takes notice of a woman having a heart attack in the changing room. He darts out of the security room and runs to her body, beginning rapid chest compressions and giving her air from mouth to mouth. When the woman wakes up, everybody in the store cheers Quagmire for saving her life using CPR. Quagmire's response:
-->'''Quagmire''': What the hell's CPR?
* This used with some justification in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' episode "Hunter's Moon," where one gargoyle, Angela, is seriously wounded and the clan's human ally Elisa performs CPR. Here, the point is not to revive her, but to keep her alive for just a few minutes until the sun rises--gargoyles turn to stone at dawn, but during their stone sleep they heal of even the most serious injuries. When she "wakes up" that evening Angela is at full strength and ready to go back into battle.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' Minx nearly drowns. Rio somehow revives her by using some subpar CPR tactics.
* Used for humor on ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' during a beach episode. After Johnny has nearly drowned, Carl performs mouth-to-mouth on him. Upon reviving and realizing what had happened, Johnny begins screaming and scraping his tongue in disgust.
* Averted in the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode "Wild Cards". John, the Green Lantern, isn't breathing, and Hawkgirl gives him CPR. It doesn't work. She then uses her electrified mace as a MagicalDefibrillator, which revives him just long enough for her to fly off with him so he can get some real medical attention.
* In ''[[Franchise/{{Peanuts}} Charlie Brown's All-Stars]]'', after Snoopy "wipes out" surfing in Linus's kiddie pool, Linus attempts to bring him back and asks if anyone knows mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, but the only person around is Sally, and her reaction is quiet apt.
-->'''Sally''': Bleah.
* The trope is seen in a few ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episodes:

-->'''Ned''': Now, just breathe into him every three seconds. Make sure you form a tight seal around his mouth!

* Averted humorously in the episode of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' where a large flounder attempts to beat him for no reason in particular. When the flounder suffers a medical crisis, he wakes up in a hospital to learn that his life was saved when [=SpongeBob=] performed CPR on him for five hours straight. Regardless, the understanding is that EMS was responsible for his ultimate resurrection.
-->'''Spongebob:''' They said you'd be okay after the first few minutes, but I just wanted to be sure.

* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/{{Young Justice|2010}}'' where CPR fails to revive [[spoiler: Artemis]], who dies. Considering the character hadn't been drowning at all, but had been ''stabbed in the stomach'', it's justified, too. [[spoiler: She hadn't actually been wounded anyway. The death and useless CPR were faked, and the onlookers were aliens and therefore didn't realize why it was a stupid treatment.]]

* CPR is performed on a drowned girl in the first episode of ''Anime/MyHime'', after some brief awkwardness, but no one thinks to procure proper life support in the event she ''doesn't'' recover on her own. Naturally, she does, spitting up some token water in the process.

* ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'': Millerna and Van very much perform the KissOfLife version on Hitomi. It's more realistic in other respects, though; Hitomi doesn't quite vomit, but she comes close to coughing her guts out and looks half-dead for a few minutes. There's no physical damage, but that's because her heart has simply stopped due to {{Synchronization}} with a guy who had just died.
* Averted in ''Manga/{{Monster}}'': It's obviously a wasted, desperate effort and the dude obviously stays dead, but the doctor continues CPR regardless.

* Sakura from ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' performed CPR on [[spoiler:Naruto in order to keep him alive after Kurama was extracted]]. This was explicitly noted to be a stop-gap measure until [[spoiler:they could seal the other half of Kurama into him.]] Sakura even used a different medical technique, [[spoiler:internal cardiac massage -- ''i.e.'' cutting the patient open and massaging the heart by hand, which was one way to do CPR in real life before it was invented]].
* In chapter 1, episode 1 of ''Manga/NagasareteAirantou'', Suzu administers the KissOfLife to a half-drowned Ikuto, nearly killing him in the process (inflating him like a balloon, whereupon he flies in a circle before landing back where he started).
* In ''Manga/RaveMaster'', when Haru is unconscious after his fight with Lance, the older Musica proposes artificial respiration to try and revive him. Elie volunteers and is going to put her lips on his when he wakes up. Haru greets her cheerfully. He gets slugged.
* ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'' has a particularly over-the-top example when Sylphiel is trying to revive [[spoiler:Lina]]. After a few whacks on the chest, a couple of chest compressions, and one breath, she sighs in relief that [[spoiler:Lina]] no longer looks dead -- then goes back to casting a long-winded healing spell.

* In one of the last episodes of ''Anime/WolfsRain'', [[spoiler:Hubb and Cheza]] perform CPR on [[spoiler:Quent]] when he starts having strange breathing spasms. It's bad enough that they're doing CPR when he clearly has a pulse and respiration, but to make matters worse [[spoiler:Hubb]] speculates that the spasms might be due to internal bleeding or shock from dehydration, neither of which CPR would help with -- in fact, it would most likely only exacerbate the former.

* Episode 9 of ''Anime/AngelBeats'' shows us some of Otonashi's back story, which reveals [[spoiler:several more hours' worth of memories before his death, which mostly involve him administering basic medical aid to the survivors of the subway train crash he was in]]. This includes an instance of CPR which is a lot more realistic than usual. It's dirty, exhausting and [[spoiler:doesn't work]], and it also sticks to the rule of only giving up if you become too exhausted to continue. [[spoiler:Otonashi had to eventually, it isn't clear how long he kept it up, but a rescue attempt was several days away -- what with them being caved in -- and Otonashi himself was suffering from the injuries that would eventually kill him just before said rescuers showed up.]]

* In episode 1 of ''Manga/DestinyOfTheShrineMaiden'', after catching Himeko from a fall (how this would have stopped her heart is not explained), Chikane rips open her shirt, pauses to fondle one breast, and then does two chest compressions. Himeko promptly moans, demonstrating that she's revived.
* Subverted in ''Anime/TheBigO'':
-->'''Roger:''' You could've come up with a gentler way to bring me around, you know. [[KissOfLife Like, mouth to mouth, or something?]]\\
'''Dorothy:''' Not with the displacement capacity of my air tank. You're such a louse, Roger Smith.\\
'''Roger:''' Heh, you're definitely our Dorothy.

* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'': When Guts pulls Casca out of a river after they fall off a cliff, he gets her to start breathing again and cough up the water she inhaled after a few repetitions including mouth-to-mouth. Not only is it clean, pretty, and reliable, but how Guts knows CPR despite living in a MedievalEuropeanFantasy world is a bit of a mystery.
* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''Anime/ExcelSaga'' when the municipal employees are unwittingly sent to locate the ACROSS base: Iwata goes through all the proper steps in administering CPR in a bid to get to kiss the unconscious Matsuya, including calling out for someone to retrieve a medical professional, despite the fact that they are stranded in Fukuoka's sewers without another living soul in earshot. She recovers before their lips make contact; despite it being blatantly obvious Iwata was trying to steal a kiss from her, she actually goes easy on the inevitable retaliation (that is, he lives) out of respect for him doing everything by the book. Played dead straight when Iwata is later forced to resuscitate his ''male'' teammates with CPR.
* Rahzel performed CPR on Rayborn in chapter 34 of ''Manga/{{Dazzle}}'' after his fake suicide attempt backfires. Perhaps more realistic because he passes out afterwards, but that's cancelled out by Rahzel's decision [[IdiotBall not to take him to a hospital because she thought he'd be embarrassed to wake up surrounded by doctors and his family.]]
* In ''Anime/StarDriver'', Wako preforms CPR on Takuto after finding him washed up on the shore. Later the characters discuss the romantic implications.
* After an encounter with a lake demon in ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'' leaves Sango unconscious, [[ChivalrousPervert Miroku]] decides that he needs to resuscitate her -- only to be left protesting his innocence after Sango regains consciousness to find his face inches from hers and comes to the predictable conclusion, with the predictable result.
* A variation in ''Manga/Life2002''. [[spoiler:Miki]] had fainted, so Ayumu attempted to revive her by giving her water. She couldn't do it though, so she instead drank some water and swapped it with her. Despite how gross that sounds, it didn't look as bad as it seems.
* ''Manga/{{IO}}'' presents one of the few correct depictions of CPR in manga. Even the translator comments on it.
* In the manga of ''Manga/AirGear'', Agito is somehow able to perform this with a ''bamboo stick''. And it works, no other life support necessary.
* In the second volume of ''Manga/JyuOhSei'', [[spoiler:Thor]], after fighting the Top, is wounded so severely that his heart stops. Third and Tiz perform CPR on him pretty accurately, but what really takes the cake for being over the top is when Third starts slapping [[spoiler:Thor]]; what's worse is that it alone ''is what actually revives him!''
* ''Manga/ACruelGodReigns'':
** Ian helps Jeremy breathe and exchanges liquid medicine via mouth-to-mouth after Jeremy's drowning BungledSuicide.
** It is not so clean and pretty when [[spoiler:Marjorie tries to drown herself in the bathtub and Lorenzo has to give her CPR. It is also not reliable because she ends up in a coma]].
* ''Literature/{{Oreshura}}'', from Episode 5: Eita is forced to do this for Masuzu shortly after he rescues her from drowning in the school's swimming pool. He calls for the teacher but notices that the teacher is giving CPR to another student. And as he does this, he hears some {{Squee}} from his classmates as he "kisses" her. Later in the episode, while watching over his sick ChildhoodFriend Chiwa, she talks in her sleep about wanting "CPR" from him as well, having gotten a text about the CPR he gave Masuzu earlier.
* Darkly parodied in ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'': Hannah attempts to resuscitate Franz by pumping her hands on his chest, even asking Armin to help her. The picture [[RevealShot zooms out]] to show it's not working because Franz lost ''[[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe everything below the waist]]''.
* Averted in ''Anime/SummerWars''. The family attempts CPR on [[spoiler:Sakae]] only out of grief-stricken desperation and it accomplishes nothing; she'd been dead for a few hours by the time they found her. The doctor even comments that there was no real point in trying.
* In ''Manga/MagicalGirlSpecOpsAsuka'', the "pretty" part is teased during a CPR training episode, where Kurumi "wishes she were" the training mannequin that Asuka was demonstrating on.
* ''Manga/AnneHappy'': Hibiki swallows water at the beach and loses consciousness, requiring Ren to provide mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Naturally, it's clean, Hibiki makes a full recovery with no long-lasting injuries, and the focus is on Ren giving Hibiki mouth-to-mouth in the first place.

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'':
** Perhaps the cleanest, prettiest, and most reliable version of CPR shown on TV was in one episode, where Roger passes out after choking on an unspecified foodstuff. Steve, who had become impromptu certified in CPR the previous day, immediately jumps to his side without even thinking about checking for a pulse or other vital signs, claiming "I know CPR!" before bringing him back from a potentially fatal situation with two breaths and no use of chest compression whatsoever.
** In another episode, Steve's chain-smoking swimming coach gives him CPR... while still smoking a cigarette. Naturally, [[{{Squick}} tongue is involved]]. Not exactly pretty.
* ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'': When Cyclops passes out after a couple seconds' exposure to ''toxic gasses'', Rogue gives him CPR to return him to normal and it never comes up again. (However, she gains his uncontrollable EyeBeams from the KissOfLife.) This is especially silly since Rogue's power, in addition to giving her the abilities of the person she touches, also sucks "life force", which you'd think someone far enough gone to need CPR wouldn't really have to spare.
* Averted humorously in the episode of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' where a large flounder attempts to beat him for no reason in particular. When the flounder suffers a medical crisis, he wakes up in a hospital to learn that his life was saved when [=SpongeBob=] performed CPR on him for five hours straight. Regardless, the understanding is that EMS was responsible for his ultimate resurrection.
-->'''Spongebob:''' They said you'd be okay after the first few minutes, but I just wanted to be sure.
** In "Naughty Nautical Neighbors", Patrick does CPR on Squidward by inflating him like a balloon and letting the air push the fork out of his mouth. He also mentions needing to wash his hands first but then shrugs it off.
** Parodied in "Spongeguard on Duty", where Larry the Lobster revives a drowned beachgoer by [[WorstAid repeatedly punching him in the chest]].
* Hilariously parodied on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' when ChivalrousPervert Glenn Quagmire (during a test to see if some therapy to make him non-perverted worked) suddenly loses control and runs into the security room in a clothing store. There he takes notice of a woman having a heart attack in the changing room. He darts out of the security room and runs to her body, beginning rapid chest compressions and giving her air from mouth to mouth. When the woman wakes up, everybody in the store cheers Quagmire for saving her life using CPR. Quagmire's response:
-->'''Quagmire''': What the hell's CPR?

* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'': Subverted and inverted at the end of "Summer Love" in which [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn1GHU1KDOk&p=8D96E22E177539DB&playnext=1&index=73 Helga gives Arnold CPR after being rescued in a "Babewatch" film shooting]], only for her to [[KissOfLife give him a kiss]] which surprises Arnold.
* Averted in the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode "Wild Cards". John, the Green Lantern, isn't breathing, and Hawkgirl gives him CPR. It doesn't work. She then uses her electrified mace as a MagicalDefibrillator, which revives him just long enough for her to fly off with him so he can get some real medical attention.
* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/{{Young Justice|2010}}'' where CPR fails to revive [[spoiler: Artemis]], who dies. Considering the character hadn't been drowning at all, but had been ''stabbed in the stomach'', it's justified, too. [[spoiler: She hadn't actually been wounded anyway. The death and useless CPR were faked, and the onlookers were aliens and therefore didn't realize why it was a stupid treatment.]]
* Used for humor on ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' during a beach episode. After Johnny has nearly drowned, Carl performs mouth-to-mouth on him. Upon reviving and realizing what had happened, Johnny begins screaming and scraping his tongue in disgust.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' Minx nearly drowns. Rio somehow revives her by using some subpar CPR tactics.
* In ''Toys/EverAfterHigh'' Darling resuscitates [[spoiler:Apple White]] from a magic-induced coma by blowing air into her mouth. It looks [[HomoeroticSubtext suspiciously more like a kiss]] than any form of CPR.
* In ''[[Franchise/{{Peanuts}} Charlie Brown's All-Stars]]'', after Snoopy "wipes out" surfing in Linus's kiddie pool, Linus attempts to bring him back and asks if anyone knows mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, but the only person around is Sally, and her reaction is quiet apt.
-->'''Sally''': Bleah.

* ''WesternAnimation/IAmWeasel'': In one episode, Weasel saves a female seal from drowning and revives her with CPR.

** Played straight, however, when he used it on Aunt May in ''ComicBook/OneMomentInTime'', who is suffering from a ''gunshot'' wound.)

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* It's '''reliable''' because the story demands it. If the victim is supposed to be saved from the brink of death, CPR will revive him almost immediately to show the audience that he's okay. Although real-life recovery rates are less than 10%,[[note]]Several factors affect this number. First, many people who “know CPR” fail to perform it effectively due to panic, fear of litigation, or lack of proficiency due to having taken a class once and never practiced again. The {{Squick}} factor of having to break a victim’s rib cage in order to compress the chest effectively certainly doesn’t help those not used to it. When it is performed effectively by someone proficient, generally Fire/EMS personnel, the amount of time necessary for the victim to be found, emergency services activated, and responders to arrive often means that they miss the window in which it can be effective[[/note]] a 1996 study published in the ''New England Journal of Medicine'' estimated CPR success rates on TV at around 75%. In the event that the victim really is supposed to [[KilledOffForReal die for real]], rescuers will give up remarkably quickly.

* Averted in ''Anime/SummerWars''. The family attempts CPR on [[spoiler:Sakae]] only out of grief-stricken desperation and it accomplishes nothing; she’d been dead for a few hours by the time they found her. The doctor even comments that there was no real point in trying.

* On July 24th, 2010, emergency medical dispatcher Chris Solomons had gone into cardiac arrest from a massive heart attack. He was treated with CPR and an AED by his colleagues as seen in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w32PUDL2lb8 this video]], which was filmed by a [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] crew, who were shooting a documentary about the UK’s air ambulance service, and happened to be there at the time.

* Similar to the above, Danish footballer Christian Eriksen collapsed on the pitch during Denmark’s game against Finland during [[UsefulNotes/EuropeanChampionship Euro 2020]]. Thanks to the quick actions of his teammates (one had enough First Aid knowledge to put him into the recovery position) and the referee who stopped the match immediately, medical help got to him very quickly. Despite the fact that the rest of the Danish team had formed a human wall around Eriksen to shield him from the TV cameras, and the fans in the stadium, viewers across Europe could still see him being given CPR on the pitch, and the defibrillator being used. Thankfully the efforts of the medical team were not in vain, and Eriksen was stretchered off the pitch to be taken to hospital half an hour later, conscious, with a oxygen mask on, and looking very dazed by it all.