"life threatening problem" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe a serious issue or situation that poses a risk to one's life. Example: The doctor informed me that my father's heart condition was a life threatening problem that needed immediate attention.
The goal is to identify the most life threatening problem, to correct it, to assign the patient a priority, and to move on.
If patients with a life threatening problem are misdiagnosed and not told to seek care, their health could worsen, increasing morbidity and mortality.
This is a life threatening problem that you can prevent.
The data also suggest a potential solution: monocyte GABAA receptors are insensitive to diazepam, thus the use of benzodiazepines as an alternative anesthetising agent may be advantageous where infection is a life threatening problem.
They can encourage patients with a life threatening problem such as stroke or heart attack to seek emergency care.
We anticipated that, for a life threatening problem such as subarachnoid haemorrhage, clinicians would expect 100% sensitivity with a narrow confidence interval (such as 97% to 100%).
Not life threatening problems but things that help.
CLINICS ARE NOT EMERGENCY ROOMS If you have heart or breathing difficulties, broken bones or any other potentially life-threatening problem, go to a hospital.
It seemed to me that, with just a forty-minute visit, Bludau needed to triage by zeroing in on either the most potentially life-threatening problem (the possible metastasis) or the problem that bothered her the most (the back pain).
But, although the F.D.A. panelists voted that Merck had demonstrated the safety and efficacy of Gardasil for boys, skepticism among a few panelists suggested that Merck may find it difficult to persuade boys to have shots for an uncomfortable but non-life-threatening problem that often resolves itself without medical intervention.
The PCT's report also reveals that Serco failed in the last two months to meet targets on passing calls involving an immediately life-threatening problem to the ambulance service within the stipulated three minutes; failed to meet targets for clinical assessment of urgent calls, and missed targets on the length of time it took for people to get through to the service.
