Emergency Triage, 2nd edition

✍ Scribed by Machester Triage Group

• Publisher: BMJ Books
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 194
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 MTS since the book was first published. These include: Redesigned and expanded flow chartsAdditional charts for allergy and palpitationsNew practices - such as the possibility of revascularisation for patients with strokeNew discriminators, for example acute neurological deficit and significant respiratory historyRedefinition of existing discriminators Also new to this edition is the incorporation of sections on the use of the risk averse system in telephone triage, in settings where ‘streaming’ takes place and as an early warning score for patients in all unscheduled care settings. The tone of this edition reflects the more up to date, modified approach to triage while retaining the principles of clinical prioritisation, which in the authors’ words “remains a central plank of clinical risk management in emergency care”. Emergency Triage is an essential handbook for all clinicians involved in unscheduled care settings such as emergency care, walk in centres, minor injury units, primary care out of hours services.

✦ Table of Contents

Emergency Triage: Manchester Triage Group......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Editors......Page 9
Members of the original Manchester Triage Group......Page 10
International Reference Group......Page 11
Preface to the second edition......Page 13
Preface to the first edition......Page 15
1 Introduction......Page 17
2 The decision-making process and triage......Page 21
3 The triage method......Page 26
4 Pain assessment as part of the triage process......Page 37
5 Patient management, triage and the triage nurse......Page 45
6 Auditing the triage process......Page 51
7 Telephone triage......Page 56
8 Beyond prioritisation......Page 61
Presentational flow chart index......Page 66
Presentational flow charts......Page 68
Discriminator dictionary......Page 172
Index......Page 187