Main description:

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

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