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Active Intervention

A Definition

Intervention /in·ter·ven·tion/ (-ven´shun)

1	The act or fact of interfering so as to modify.
2	Any measure whose purpose is to improve health or alter the course of disease.
Crisis Intervention
1	An immediate, short-term, psychotherapeutic approach, the goal of which is to help resolve a personal crisis within the individual's immediate environment.
2	The procedures involved in responding to an emergency like percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), the management of coronary artery occlusion by any of various catheter-based techniques, such as percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, atherectomy, excimer laser angioplasty, and implantation of coronary stents and related devices.

In General

Active intervention is an act performed to prevent harm to a patient or to improve the mental, emotional, or physical function of a patient.
Physiologic process may be monitored or enhanced
Pathologic process may be arrested or controlled.
Independent intervention is any health care activity pertaining to aspects of professional practice that are encompassed by licensure and law and require no supervision or direction from others.
Interdependent intervention refers to any health care activity carried out by one health care professional in collaboration with another.

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