Triage

Abstract

During austere conditions when there is a large demand on healthcare services and the resources are limited for different reasons, there should be a special way of managing patients and victims in order to make the most benefit to the community. Trial of first come, first served will lead to losing most of the seriously injured patients because they will reach late if they reached a healthcare facility. In addition, day-today work protocols with full resources also are not the optimum to offer for the whole community during a major incident. Triage has been created and evolved in military medical services to face mass casualty with limited resources and then transferred to civilian life to deal with mass casualty incidents. Applying triage to patients created some interference with medical bioethics if those applied on individual bases, but if applied in the whole picture of state or country, we can understand its rations.

Literature Review : The Effectiveness of Australasian Triage Scale to Treatment in the Emergency Department

“…When a patient's waiting time falls within or below the stated maximum waiting time permitted depending on their ATS Category, the Emergency Department is regarded to have satisfied the performance standards for that specific instance. It is critical to track and evaluate indicator performance across multiple presentations (Aljazairi, 2019). acts as the initial point of contact between the patient and the healthcare personnel carrying out the protocol.…”