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In medicine, triage (/ ˈ t r iː ɑː ʒ /, / t r i ˈ ɑː ʒ /; French:) is a process by which care providers such as medical professionals and those with first aid knowledge determine the order of priority for providing treatment to injured individuals [1] and/or inform the rationing of limited supplies so that they go to those who can most benefit from it. [2]
The "15-45" at the end refers to the different respiratory criteria in the pediatric JumpSTART triage system, due to the differences between children's and adults' normal respiratory rates. [5] In pediatric patients: Children who are breathing under 15 times a minute are RED. [5] Children who are breathing over 45 times a minute are RED. [5]
Emergency Severity Index (ESI): A Triage Tool for Emergency Department Care, Version 4. Implementation Handbook 2012 Edition. AHRQ. ISBN 978-1-58763-416-1. Gilboy N, Tanabe T, Travers D, Rosenau AM (2020). Emergency Severity Index (ESI): A Triage Tool for Emergency Department Care, Version 4. 2020 Edition (PDF). Emergency Nurses Association.
Combat medics attend to Irish casualties following the opening attack of the Battle of Passchendaele, 1917. Battlefield medicine, also called field surgery and later combat casualty care, is the treatment of wounded combatants and non-combatants in or near an area of combat.
Typical triage tag used for emergency mass casualty decontamination.. A triage tag is a tool first responders and medical personnel use during a mass casualty incident.With the aid of the triage tags, the first-arriving personnel are able to effectively and efficiently distribute the limited resources and provide the necessary immediate care for the victims until more help arrives.
Simple triage and rapid treatment (START) is a triage method used by first responders to quickly classify victims during a mass casualty incident (MCI) based on the severity of their injury. The method was developed in 1983 by the staff members of Hoag Hospital and Newport Beach Fire Department located in California , and is currently widely ...
Mental health triage is a clinical function conducted at the point of entry to health services that aims to assess and classify the urgency and priority of action of mental health related problems. Mental health triage services may be located in the Emergency Department , community or outpatient facilities, on a telephone support line, or in a ...
The JumpSTART pediatric triage MCI triage tool (usually shortened to JumpSTART) is a variation of the simple triage and rapid treatment (START) triage system. Both systems are used to sort patients into categories at mass casualty incidents (MCIs). However, JumpSTART was designed specifically for triaging children in disaster settings. Though ...