This is known in the medical field as the time that a critically injured patient has, from the time the injury occured until care is provided at a medical facility, in which to affect a favorable outcome.
The maximum optimum time between the time time of injury and arriving at the operating room in the hospital.
The time from injury to definitive care, during which treatment of shock or traumatic injuries should occur because survival potential is the best
That special first hour after the incident where a traumatized patient has the best chance for recovery from that trauma if they can be safely delivered to an emergency medical facility and a surgeon.
the one-hour period following a severe injury. Based on research, it has been demonstrated that severe trauma patients who reach surgery within this period have a higher survival rate.
A principle that states unstable victims must be stabilized within one hour following injury to reduce the risk of death.
In emergency medicine the golden hour is the first sixty minutes after the occurrence of major multi-system trauma. It is widely believed that the victim's chances of survival are greatest if he or she receives definitive care in the operating room within the first hour. Recent scrutiny, however, calls this assertion into question.