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rescue

Emergency medicine Any activity that brings a victim of disaster or accident to safety. Cf Disaster Oncology Rescue therapy. See Leucovorin rescue, Marker rescue.

RESCUE

Cardiology A clinical trial–Randomized Evaluation of Salvage Angioplasty with Combined Utilization of Endpoints that compared the effects of rescue coronary angioplasty with conservative therapy of occluded infarct-related arteries. See Coronary angioplasty, Rescue adjunctive coronary angioplasty.
McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

res·cue

(res'kyū)
1. To save from harm, in a clinical or therapeutic sense.
2. Describing an analgesic prescribed for breakthrough pain (e.g., opioids for cancer therapy).
[M.E. rescouen]
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He appreciated the performance of Rescue 1122 officials and urged them to work with the same spirit.
Gomez said the boat was brought from Subic by a team of rescue workers who sailed it through four to five-meter high waves from Matnog port.
SSP Afzal further said that the incident took place near the shore and 52 passengers were successfully off boarded by rescue sources.
It took fire crews more than two hours using boats and inflatable walkways to rescue the stuck cows.
He said that Rescue 1122 received 1,357 emergency calls of road accidents, 177 of fire, 96 of crime, 2045 of medical and 194 other emergency calls during the last month.
The Air Ambulance rescue teams were able to airlift them, and a rescue boat was called in to rescue the 25 passengers.
by Times News Service The PACDA statistics recorded 255 water rescue operations, 37 land rescue operations, 29 fire extinguishing operations, 8 ambulance related calls, and four search operations.
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At first, the forces were able to rescue 44 people in one day and then another 18 people the next day.
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