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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808016203321

Titolo

Emergency triage : telephone triage and advice  / / Manchester Triage Group ; edited by Janet Marsden, Mark Newton, Jill Windle, Kevin Mackway-Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom : , : John Wiley & Sons, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-118-36942-4

1-118-36943-2

1-118-36940-8

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (160 p.)

Collana

Advanced Life Support Group

Disciplina

362.18

Soggetti

Triage (Medicine)

Emergency medicine

Medical emergencies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The decision-making process and telephone triage -- The telephone triage method -- The presentation priority matrix -- Ensuring safety in telephone triage.

Sommario/riassunto

Emergency Triage: Telephone Triage and Advice complements the highly successful Emergency Triage.; The algorithms are rooted in the Manchester Triage System (MTS), which is used in hospitals around the world and which is acknowledged as an effective means of clinical prioritization.  This telephone iteration of a triage system which prioritizes millions of patients each year provides a robust, safe, evidence-based system for managing the clinical risk in patients who are at a distance from health care providers. The basic principles that drive the MTS remain, but this book addresses the