WordNet
n. (medicine) a procedure adopted to meet an emergency (especially a medical emergency)
Wikipedia
An emergency is a serious, unexpected, often dangerous situation that requires immediate action. The emergency procedure is a plan of actions to be conducted in a certain order or manner, in response to an emergency event.
Usage examples of "emergency procedure".
Your wife asked me to tell you that she's in an emergency procedure and she'll be about a half hour late tonight.
He saw the recommended emergency procedure: Pump the liquefied ceramic into the plasma stream while alternating the magnetic field so that it made the electrically conducting plasma swirl in a helical motion as it moved down the tube.
Then, still, breathing hard, swiftly going through the emergency procedure in his mind.
As soon as his guards had discovered his disappearance, they'd have activated an emergency procedure, using electronic sensors to trace the code on the metal strip.
His copilot, Jack May, began running through the emergency procedure checklist.
As far as the lieutenant knew, there was no such thing as an emergency procedure for what they were doing.
The rest, of the farmers followed the standard emergency procedure and were into the lifeboats and clear of the bubble in less than a minute.
They have no emergency beacon and don't seem very up on their emergency procedure, which is a little frightening.