CHSJ

Curr Health Sci J, vol. 37, no. 1, 2011

The Triage In The Emergency Units

[Actualities]

Luciana Rotaru

SMURD, Emergency University, Hospital Craiova


Abstract:

The transfer of the triage from the field to the emergency department appears as a necessity to compensate the imbalance between available resources at the moment of patient arrival to the ED and the patients needs at the same moment. The result is to "filter" the patients  trough a system to identify these who require immediate attention and high level of the medical effort; for all the rest of cases it will exist a stratification in time and resources management for each patient. The permanent changes of the acuity scales in triage lead to a better repartition of the resources and this situation leads its self to a continuous triage shifts changes.


Keywords: triage, emergency department



Corresponding: Luciana Rotaru, MD, PhD, SMURD, Emergency University, Hospital Craiova University of Medicine and Pharmacy Craiova, Str Petru Rares nr. 4, 200456, Craiova, Dolj, Romania


DOI 10.12865/CHSJ.37.01.09 - Download PDF
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