EMERGENCY PROCEDURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does emergency procedure mean? 

• EMERGENCY PROCEDURE (noun)
  The noun EMERGENCY PROCEDURE has 1 sense:

1. (medicine) a procedure adopted to meet an emergency (especially a medical emergency)

  Familiarity information: EMERGENCY PROCEDURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMERGENCY PROCEDURE (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)

 Context examples 

An emergency procedure used to restart a person’s heartbeat and breathing after one or both have stopped.

(Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, NCI Dictionary)

CPR is an emergency procedure for a person whose heart has stopped or is no longer breathing.

(CPR, NIH)