Description
Book SynopsisThe 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 ContentsEditors 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
