Triage Categories In Emergency Department

In start victims are grouped into four categories depending on the urgency of their need for evacuation.

Triage categories in emergency department. All five triage categories should be used in all settings. One system is known as start simple triage and rapid treatment. It is maintained by the agency for healthcare research and quality ahrq. Globally different triage processes are used in emergency departments such as the australian triage score canadian triage assessment scale and manchester triage scale aacharya gastmans denier 2011.

Critical emergency urgent semi urgent and non urgent. In hong kong triage in accident emergency departments is performed by experienced registered nurses patients are divided into five triage categories. Individual departmental policies such as fast tracking of specific patient populations should be separated from the objective allocation of a triage category. In a disaster or mass casualty situation different systems for triage have been developed.

In japan the triage system is mainly used by health professionals. Farrokhnia göransson 2011 all of which are sub divided into five groups indicating the urgency of care required by the patient. Children should be triaged according to objective clinical urgency. When patients report to the emergency department of upmc western maryland our staff uses a method called triage to determine who needs to be seen first what this means is that we evaluate the severity of patient symptoms rather than take patients back to a room in the emergency department based on the order they checked in.

Esi triage is based on the acuity of patients health care problems and the number of resources their care is anticipated to require.