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EMERGENCY PROCEDURE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(medicine) a procedure adopted to meet an emergency (especially a medical emergency)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("emergency procedure" is a kind of...):
procedure; process (a particular course of action intended to achieve a result)
Domain category:
medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "emergency procedure"):
cardiac massage; heart massage (an emergency procedure that employs rhythmic compression of the heart (either through the chest wall or, during surgery, directly to the heart) in an attempt to maintain circulation during cardiac arrest)
artificial respiration (an emergency procedure whereby breathing is maintained artificially)
cardiac resuscitation; cardiopulmonary resuscitation; CPR; kiss of life; mouth-to-mouth resuscitation (an emergency procedure consisting of external cardiac massage and artificial respiration; the first treatment for a person who has collapsed and has no pulse and has stopped breathing; attempts to restore circulation of the blood and prevent death or brain damage due to lack of oxygen)
Heimlich maneuver; Heimlich manoeuvere (an emergency procedure to help someone who is choking because food is lodged in the trachea)
