emergency cardiac care
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Related to emergency cardiac care: ACLS, Advanced cardiac life support, advanced cardiovascular life support
emergency cardiac care
Abbreviation: ECCThe basic and advanced life support assessment and treatment necessary to manage sudden and often life-threatening events affecting cardiovascular and pulmonary systems. ECC includes identifying the nature of the problem, monitoring the patient closely, providing basic and advanced life support as quickly as possible, preventing complications, reassuring the patient, and transporting the patient to the most appropriate facility for definitive cardiac care.
See: advanced cardiac life support; basic life support; cardiopulmonary resuscitationSee also: care
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