Triage - keep it simple, swift, safe and scientific : correspondence
In her editorial, Molyneux joins with the authors of 'An adapted triage tool (ETAT) at Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital Medical Emergency Unit, Cape Town: An evaluation'. Their evaluation of ETAT implied that the inclusion of physiological parameters was superfluous and, in...
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| Published in: | South African medical journal Vol. 103; no. 5; p. 273 |
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| Main Authors: | , , |
| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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Health and Medical Publishing Group (HMPG)
01-05-2013
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| Online Access: | Get full text |
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| Summary: | In her editorial, Molyneux joins with the authors of 'An adapted triage tool (ETAT) at Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital Medical Emergency Unit, Cape Town: An evaluation'. Their evaluation of ETAT implied that the inclusion of physiological parameters was superfluous and, in the triage of a paediatric patient, was 'time-consuming to perform and, if manually and hastily undertaken, could be incorrect'. Summarily doing away with an entire aspect of medical evaluation has a sense of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. There can be no question regarding the value of physiological measures in the assessment of acuity. |
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| ISSN: | 0256-9574 2078-5135 |