In 2016, the department began staffing a paramedic on every fire engine and ambulance, to better deal with severe emergencies such as cardiac arrest or car crashes.
These are a separate multidisciplinary team, the capability to deliver a full range of emergency psychiatric interventions in the community, targeting severe emergencies in which inpatient admission would otherwise be required, 24/7 availability, a psychiatrist working within the team, rapid emergency assessments, response within one hour if required, and gate-keeping functions to acute wards.
Lunchroom conversations at reactors frequently turn to what operators would do in a severe emergency.
If it's a severe emergency, the doctor might speak to the pilot to recommend redirecting the flight to a closer landing location.
It is up to a small group of trustees and advisers to determine whether a severe emergency or some other circumstance requires release of the frozen germ plasm.
Dr. Jonathan D. Moreno, director of the center for biomedical ethics at the University of Virginia, said that in a severe emergency, it might even be ethical to expose fully informed volunteers to pathogens to test a new drug or vaccine.
The "red shirts" are defying the government's decree of a "severe emergency situation," including a ban on blocking any traffic, imposed in Bangkok on Sunday, a day after protesters breached security and entered a hotel complex where Asian leaders were gathering for a summit meeting, causing the talks to be canceled.
On Tuesday, the Tourism Authority of Thailand issued its own advisory, saying, "Visitors and tourists are advised to be vigilant, follow news developments, exercise extra caution and avoid areas covered by the declaration of a severe emergency situation" -- areas that include not only the capital, Bangkok, but also 21 provinces.
The government just implemented a severe emergency austerity program, including a doubling of interest rates, to vanquish the speculators who think Brazil looks an awful lot like Thailand.
Head trauma recipients are initially assessed to exclude a more severe emergency such as an intracranial hemorrhage.
Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Friday to allow California businesses and public agencies to have on hand medicine designed to combat severe, emergency allergic reactions.
