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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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She clarified, however, that they will still pursue search and rescue operations as the gadgets they are using may not be accurate in detecting the presence of life inside the building.
Bugti said three helicopters of the Pak Army participated in the rescue operation.
Rescue sources stated that the unfortunate event occurred during a rescue operation inLahorecity's jurisdiction area Kot Abdulmalik where a truck collided with a bus injuring eight people.
The rescue operation started at 10 am local time on Sunday and as media reports specified, could take many hours.
It sparked a major rescue operation involving Newquay Coastguard, Padstow Coastguard, Padstow Lifeboat Station, South West Ambulance Service, and Cornwall Air Ambulance.
The Iranian minister has formed a crisis headquarters to directly supervise the rescue operation in China.
The rescue operation was carried out in cooperation with Kalba Municipality, with rescuers using a hoist and pulley to lift the horse to a safer ground.
The rescue operation involved six fire crews from Cardiff and Newport.
The group made a 999 call but it was disconnected before the operator could speak to them and a rescue operation was launched after the phone was traced.
The team used a tranquilliser gun to capture the big cat - helping the forest department in the rescue operation.
A DRAMATIC 90-minute rescue operation was launched yesterday after a workman fell while working on the roof of Wales' National Museum.
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