Health Care

Rescue Work

Activities devoted to freeing persons or animals from danger to life or well-being in accidents, fires, bombings, floods, earthquakes, other disasters and life-threatening conditions. While usually performed by team efforts, rescue work is not restricted to organized services.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

Activities devoted to freeing persons or animals from danger to life or well-being in accidents, fires, bombings, floods, earthquakes, other disasters and life-threatening conditions. While usually performed by team efforts, rescue work is not restricted to organized services.

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Synonyms

1 entry terms
  • Work, Rescue

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Aspects Covered

10 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

not restricted to med emerg; not restricted to organized services

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History Note

95

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Previous Indexing

  • Emergency Medical Services (1968-1994)

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  1. N06.230w.100w.350w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Rescue Work. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D018635. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D018635
  2. Rescue Work. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescue
  3. Rescue Work. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1341429