Triage Process
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Triage is a process in which patients’ priority is determined through the patient’s severity or recovery without undergoing treatment. When resources of treatment are insufficient, it rations patient treatment efficiently; i.e., influence in the order of treatment and emergency, transport emergency, or even the patient’s transportation destiny. In the triage process, there are five levels in which they work out in patients accessing.
The first level is Resuscitation (Christ et al. 2010). This level deals with conditions that are a threat to the limb or life of the patient. At this level, the patient may lead t to death since the conditions are worse. The second level is Emergent. This is a condition that is a threat to potential life, limb, or even function. There is a third level, which is Urgent. These are serious conditions that need emergency intervention. What follows after Urgent is Less Urgent. At this level, condition relates to patient potential complications or distress that can benefit from intervention.
The last level in Triage is Non- Urgent. The patient’s condition is non-urgent or is part of a chronic problem (Iserson et al. 2007). They are also different types of triage that depend on n occurrence of the scene. The first type is a simple triage. This type of triage is mostly used at the scene of an accident for the patients who have critical issues and whose transport is urgently sorted. It can be started before the transport is available. Nurses or physicians complete initial assessment; every patient is labeled concerning the urgency of treatment.
The label may identify the patient, any assessment finding, the patient’s priority for the medical assessment of any transport priority from the emergency department. Patients can be labeled through the use of marker pens or colored flagging tape for identification.
Another type of triage level is advanced triage. At this level, trained nurses, doctors, or paramedics may decide that the patients with serious injuries will not undergo assistance since they may fail to survive.
It is mostly applied in places where treatment resources are scarce, where they divert the resources those resources away from the seriously injured. Through this, the chances of patients with higher likelihood are increased (Göransson et al. 2005. This type is not legal but is mostly applicable when the medical doctors declare that the medical resources are scarce. The prioritized resources include the time spend in treatment, the drugs used, or any other limited resources. This mostly happens in a mass shooting, terrorist attack, volcanic eruption, among many others.
In such a situation, any attention given to given who will die can be considered withdrawn care from the people expected to recover. Reverse triage refers to a process of discharging the patient when the medical system is more stressed than before. In case a severe patient arrives in the hospital, and there are insufficient beds, the existing patient in the hospital can be triaged. The patient who does not require immediate care is discharged to create room for the incoming, seriously injured patient.
The last type of triage is telephone triage. Through telephone calls, decision-makers effectively access the patient’s traits and give directions based on their priority. Through the type of and levels of triage, patient safety is taken care- of. The most urgent patient undergoes the priority to save lives since life meaningful. In every medical institution, they must employ such discipline for the safety of patients.
References
Christ, M., Grossmann, F., Winter, D., Bingisser, R., & Platz, E. (2010). Modern triage in the emergency department. Deutsches Ärzteblatt International, 107(50), 892.
Göransson, K. E., Ehrenberg, A., & Ehnfors, M. (2005). Triage in emergency departments: national survey. Journal of clinical nursing, 14(9), 1067-1074..
Iserson, K. V., & Moskop, J. C. (2007). Triage in medicine, part I: concept, history, and types. Annals of emergency medicine, 49(3), 275-281