Emergency triage : telephone triage and advice / Manchester Triage Group ; edited by Janet Marsden, Mark Newton, Jill Windle, Kevin Mackway-Jones.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marsden, Janet, editor.

Newton, Mark, 1963- editor.

Manchester Triage Group, issuing body.

Series:

Advanced Life Support Group

Standardized Title:

Emergency triage (Manchester Triage Group)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Triage (Medicine).

Emergency medicine.

Medical emergencies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (160 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom : John Wiley & Sons, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Emergency Triage: Telephone Triage and Advice complements the highly successful Emergency Triage.; The algorithms are rooted in the Manchester Triage System (MTS), which is used in hospitals around the world and which is acknowledged as an effective means of clinical prioritization. This telephone iteration of a triage system which prioritizes millions of patients each year provides a robust, safe, evidence-based system for managing the clinical risk in patients who are at a distance from health care providers. The basic principles that drive the MTS remain, but this book addresses the

Contents:

The decision-making process and telephone triage

The telephone triage method

The presentation priority matrix

Ensuring safety in telephone triage.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781118369425

1118369424

9781118369432

1118369432

9781118369401

1118369408

OCLC:

916953780