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escalate care

phrase

B2CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

To involve more senior clinicians or a higher level of monitoring when a patient's condition worsens.

When the patient became increasingly hypotensive, the nurse escalated care by activating the rapid response team.

Similar: escalate, step up care

Topic: US nursing English in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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