emergency intervention
Urgent corrective action
Emergency intervention is urgent action taken to prevent harm or avert crisis when normal processes are too slow.
Medical emergency intervention might be CPR or emergency surgery.
In mental health contexts, it often means involuntary hospitalization of someone deemed dangerous to themselves or others.
Governments conduct emergency interventions in financial markets or humanitarian disasters: The central bank's emergency intervention stabilized the currency.
- 911 callRequest for emergency services
- first respondersPersonnel arriving at emergencies initially
- triageSeverity-based prioritization
- code blueHospital cardiac arrest signal
- evacuationRemoval from danger
relief supplies · first aid · field hospital · CPR · water rescue · rescue mission · humanitarian aid · search and rescue · defibrillation · stabilization · ambulance · rescue helicopter · risk assessment · flood control · wildfire suppression · paramedics · disaster drills · trauma care
- elder abuseelder neglect, elder fraud, senior neglect, nursing home abuse, caregiver abuse
emergency interventionroutine care
Regular scheduled upkeep
scheduled maintenance · standard procedure · elective surgery · chronic care · wellness visit
emergency interventionstrategic planning
Defining organizational direction systematically
emergency interventionnon-intervention
Policy of staying uninvolved
watchful waiting · benign neglect · inaction · letting nature take its course · standing by
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