lifesaving techniques
Emergency survival skills
Methods used to preserve life in emergencies—CPR, rescue breathing, the Heimlich maneuver, controlling bleeding.
The term appears in first aid training, emergency medicine, and water safety contexts: The lifeguard demonstrated basic lifesaving techniques.
Figuratively, any intervention that prevents disaster: Her lifesaving techniques for managing toddler tantrums spread through the parenting group.
- CPREmergency revival technique
- lifeguardPaid swimming supervisor
- rescueSave from harm
- drowning preventionStopping aquatic fatalities
- triageSeverity-based prioritization
trauma care · defibrillation · lifesavers · wound dressing · AED · splinting · shock treatment · reach · tourniquets · surfmen · evacuation planning · search and rescue · emergency response · call 911 · first aid · Heimlich maneuver · airway · recovery position
lifesaving techniquestorture methods
Techniques for inflicting suffering
weapons training · combat techniques · poisoning · deadly force · strangulation
lifesaving techniquesneglect
Failure to provide care
abandonment · inaction · failure to act · passive euthanasia · criminal negligence