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Medicina Fluminensis : Medicina Fluminensis, Vol. 49 No. 4, 2013.

Review article

Triage in emergency department

Maša Vico ; Centar za hitnu medicinu, KBC Rijeka, Rijeka
Petra Šverko ; Centar za hitnu medicinu, KBC Rijeka, Rijeka
Zoran Vuković ; Centar za hitnu medicinu, KBC Rijeka, Rijeka
Alen Protić ; Centar za hitnu medicinu, KBC Rijeka, Rijeka
Goran Hauser ; Centar za hitnu medicinu, KBC Rijeka, Rijeka

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Abstract

The purpose of triage is to identify priority patients with life threatening conditions
and to reassure and carry prompt and efficient medical care.
There are numerous triage scales , and the most common is Austral – Asian triage scale
(ATS) which is further divided into five categories. Triage nurses and medical technicians
should have significant years of experience in Emergency Department. Emergency department
(ED) utilization has increased over last years, leading towards ED overcrowding, mostly
by non-urgent patients, which could have been dealt with by general practitioner (GP).
Therefore, the purpose of triage is to decrease ED overcrowding by ing non-urgent patients
from those in life threatening condition.

Keywords

ATS; triage categories; triage in emergency department; triage nurse/technicians

Hrčak ID:

112536

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/112536

Publication date:

2.12.2013.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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