Rescue therapy refers to non-surgical medical treatment in life-threatening situations.

It has been used in an acute care setting in hospital as a rescue therapy for emesis.

Commonly, rescue therapy refers to drug treatment for cardiovascular problems intended to regain normal heart rhythm.

Hepaconda is being developed as a 'rescue therapy' for Hepatitis C patients that have exhausted other treatment options.

Salvage therapy, also known as rescue therapy, is a form of treatment given after an ailment does not respond to standard treatment.

Treating persistent asthma requires long-term maintenance therapy, such as an inhaled steroid, plus rescue therapy when something triggers symptoms.

"With the prevalence of asthma, especially in children, on the rise, there is a great need for rescue therapy with minimal side effects," said Dr. Jeffrey Drazen, a professor at Harvard Medical School.

Hypothermic neural rescue therapy is an evidence-based clinical treatment which increases a severely injured full term infant's chance of surviving without brain damage detectable at 18 months by about 50%, an effect which seems to be sustained into later childhood.

In 1997, in his car on the way to Dulles International Airport after a series of meetings largely organised by Lucey, Jay Jones the owner of Olympic Medical decided to fund a randomised controlled trial of hypothermic neural rescue therapy in newborn infants.

"The strategy is to give rescue therapy with inhaled corticosteroids every time you need albuterol for relief of symptoms," says study researcher Fernando D. Martinez, MD, the Swift-McNear Professor of Pediatrics and director of the Arizona Respiratory Center at the University of Arizonain Tucson.