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Record Nr.

UNISA996205985203316

Titolo

Emergency triage [[electronic resource] /] / Manchester Triage Group ; edited by Kevin Mackway-Jones, Janet Marsden, Jill Windle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, Mass. ; ; Oxford, : Blackwell Pub., c2006

ISBN

1-281-32100-1

9786611321000

0-470-75732-9

0-470-75728-0

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Mackway-JonesKevin

MarsdenJanet

WindleJill

Disciplina

362.18

Soggetti

Triage (Medicine) - Great Britain

Hospitals - Emergency services - Great Britain

Emergency nursing - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The decision-making process and triage -- The triage method -- Pain assessment as part of the triage process -- Patient management, triage and the triage nurse -- Auditing the triage process -- Telephone triage -- Beyond prioritisation.

Sommario/riassunto

The Manchester Triage System (MTS) is the most widely used triage system in the UK, Europe and Australia, with tens of millions of patients being processed through hospital emergency departments.    Emergency Triage is the core text for the MTS which utilises a risk averse system of prioritisation for patients in all unscheduled care settings, and as such it is an essential text for all emergency department staff using the MTS, in particular triage nurses themselves.     The second edition has been revised throughout and takes in the changes in practice introduced into M