Emergency triage /

• Corporate Authors: Manchester Triage Group, Advanced Life Support Group (Manchester, England)
• Other Authors: Mackway-Jones, Kevin, Marsden, Janet, Windle, Jill, Harris, Nathan
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, England : Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.
• Edition: Third edition.
• Subjects: Triage (Medicine); Emergency nursing.; Hospitals > Emergency services.; Electronic books.

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. It is also used in hospitals throughout Brazil. Emergency Triage is the core text for the MTS, which uti...

Table of Contents:

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