Emergency Triage

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. Emergency Triage contains all the information necessary for an MTS user: as such, it is an essential text for all emergency department staff, in particular triage nurses. The book is both a training tool and a reference for daily use. • Well–organized and well–written • Updated evidence–based concepts of triage for modern emergency departments • New charts for abuse and neglect in childhood, unwell newborn, unwell baby • A new approach to fever in childhood • An introduction to telephone triage and advice This book is a must–have tool for all practitioners working in emergency and urgent care. Titles of related interest: Paediatric Emergency Triage 9781118299012 Telephone Triage and Advice 9781118369388 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   Kevin Mackway–Jones , Professor of Emergency Medicine, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK Janet Marsden , Professor of Ophthalmology and Emergency Care, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK Jill Windle , Lecturer Practitioner in Emergency Nursing, Salford Royal Hospital, Salford, UK