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The Emergency Severity Index (ESI) is a five-level emergency department triage algorithm, initially developed in 1998 by emergency physicians Richard Wurez and David Eitel. [1] It was previously maintained by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) but is currently maintained by the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA).
This is a list of mnemonics used in medicine and medical science, categorized and alphabetized. A mnemonic is any technique that assists the human memory with information retention or retrieval by making abstract or impersonal information more accessible and meaningful, and therefore easier to remember; many of them are acronyms or initialisms which reduce a lengthy set of terms to a single ...
The Joint Commission defines a Primary Stroke Center as follows: "This program is designed for hospitals providing the critical elements to achieve long-term success in improving outcomes for stroke patients." [16] Primary stroke centers have "acute stroke teams" [13] as recommended by the Brain Attack Coalition. The centers should have a ...
This scale was deprecated in 1999 with the introduction of the Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS), [75] which is used across the country to sort incoming patients. [76] The system categorizes patients by both injury and physiological findings, and ranks them by severity from 1–5 (1 being highest). [ 77 ]
RPM-30-2-Can Do is a mnemonic device for the criteria used in the START triage system, which is used to sort patients into categories at a mass casualty incident. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The mnemonic is pronounced "R, P, M, thirty, two, can do."
In 2021, the preliminary results of the BEnefits of Stroke Treatment Delivered Using a Mobile Stroke Unit (BEST-MSU) were published in the New England Journal of Medicine, demonstrating improved disability outcomes for acute stroke patients treated on a MSU compared to standard transport to the Emergency Department by Emergency Medical Services ...
Shirtless Man Pinned Flight Attendant Against ‘Aircraft Exit Door’ and Threatened Violence, Say Authorities
Field triage is the process by which emergency medical services providers decide on the destination for the injured subject.. Each year, the approximately 1 million emergency medical services (EMS) providers have a substantial impact on the care of injured persons and on public health in the United States.