Important Medical Event definition

Important Medical Event means an Adverse Event that may not be immediately life-threatening or result in death or hospitalisation but may jeopardise the subject or require medical or surgical intervention to prevent one of the outcomes listed in (a)—(e) of the definition of Serious Adverse Event. Examples of such events include invasive or malignant cancers, intensive treatment (in an emergency room or at home) for allergic bronchospasm, blood dyscrasias or convulsions that do not result in hospitalisation, or the development of drug dependency or abuse, overdose or misuse.
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Related to Important Medical Event

  • Medical event means an improper administration of radiation or radioactive material to a patient or human research subject that requires reporting to the department.

  • Emergency Medical Event means an event wherein an Insured Person’s medical condition and situation are such that, in the opinion of the Company’s affiliate or authorized vendor and the Insured Person’s treating physician, the Insured Person requires urgent medical attention without which there would be a significant risk of death, or serious impairment and adequate medical treatment is not available at the Insured Person’s initial medical facility.

  • psychiatric emergency medical condition means a Mental Disorder that manifests itself by acute symptoms of sufficient severity that it renders the patient as being either of the following:

  • Objective medical evidence means reports of examinations or treatments; medical signs which are anatomical, physiological, or psychological abnormalities that can be observed; psychiatric signs which are medically demonstrable phenomena indicating specific abnormalities of behavior, affect, thought, memory, orientation, or contact with reality; or laboratory findings which are anatomical, physiological, or psychological phenomena that can be shown by medically acceptable laboratory diagnostic techniques, including but not limited to chemical tests, electrocardiograms, electroencephalograms, X-rays, and psychological tests;

  • Behavioral therapy means interactive therapies derived from evidence-based research, including applied behavior analysis, which includes discrete trial training, pivotal response training, intensive intervention programs, and early intensive behavioral intervention.