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The Manchester Triage System (MTS), the most widely used emergency medical triage system in the UK and Europe, is employed to prioritise the treatment of tens of millions of patients each year. MTS utilises an easy-to-understand and safe, risk-based system of prioritisation. This title contains all the information necessary for an MTS user.

Table of Contents
Editors vi

Members of the original Manchester Triage Group vii

International Reference Group viii

Preface to the third edition ix

Preface to the first edition xi

1 Introduction 1

2 The decision-making process and triage 6

3 The triage method 11

4 Pain assessment as part of the triage process 25

5 Patient management, triage and the triage practitioner 35

6 Auditing the triage process 42

7 Telephone triage 47

8 Beyond prioritisation 54

Presentational flow chart index 62

Presentational flow charts 64

Discriminator dictionary 174

Index 185

General discriminators 190

Emergency Triage

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      Publisher BMJ Books
      Published 27 December 2013
      ISBN-13 9781118299067
      978-1118299067
      ISBN-10 111829906X
      Also in:
      Accident and emergency medicine Accident and emergency nursing

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The Manchester Triage System (MTS), the most widely used emergency medical triage system in the UK and Europe, is employed to prioritise the treatment of tens of millions of patients each year. MTS utilises an easy-to-understand and safe, risk-based system of prioritisation. This title contains all the information necessary for an MTS user.

      Table of Contents
      Editors vi

      Members of the original Manchester Triage Group vii

      International Reference Group viii

      Preface to the third edition ix

      Preface to the first edition xi

      1 Introduction 1

      2 The decision-making process and triage 6

      3 The triage method 11

      4 Pain assessment as part of the triage process 25

      5 Patient management, triage and the triage practitioner 35

      6 Auditing the triage process 42

      7 Telephone triage 47

      8 Beyond prioritisation 54

      Presentational flow chart index 62

      Presentational flow charts 64

      Discriminator dictionary 174

      Index 185

      General discriminators 190

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