This guide explains the Manchester Triage System to users in emergency departments around the world. It covers the decision-making process, the triage method, pain assessment as part of the process, patient management, auditing, telephone triage, and other uses of the system, such as for monitoring of physiological parameters and presentation-priority matrix mapping. Half of the guide is dedicated to presentational flow charts and notes. This edition has updated evidence-based concepts of triage, new charts for abuse and neglect in childhood and unwell newborns and babies, a new approach to fever in childhood, and modifications that reflect new research and alterations in practice. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
The Manchester Triage System (MTS) is the most widely used triage system in the UK, Europe and Australia, with tens of millions of patients being processed through hospital emergency departments. It is also used in hospitals throughout Brazil.
Emergency Triage is the core text for the MTS, which utilises a risk averse system of prioritisation for patients in all unscheduled care settings. As such, it is an essential text for all emergency department staff using the MTS, in particular triage nurses. The book is both a training tool and a reference for daily use in the Emergency Department and prehospital settings.
This edition features revised protocols that reflect new approaches to prioritisation, with accompanying revised flowcharts - the core part of the book.
Table of Contents
Presentation flow charts index
1: Introduction
2: The decision-making process and triage
3: The triage method
4: Pain assessment as part of the triage process
5: Patient management, triage and the triage nurse
6: Auditing the triage process
7: Telephone triage
8: Beyond prioritisation to other applications
