medical triage
Urgency-based patient ranking
Medical triage is the process of sorting patients by the urgency of their conditions to determine treatment priority.
In emergency rooms and disaster situations, triage ensures those with life-threatening injuries receive care first, while stable patients wait.
The nurse performed triage on incoming patients.
The term extends to any systematic prioritization of competing demands: We need to triage these budget requests.
- mass casualtyEvent harming many simultaneously
- search and rescueFinding and saving people
- evacuation plansOrganized emergency exit protocols
- first respondersPersonnel arriving at emergencies initially
- field hospitalTemporary military medical facility
shock treatment · CPR · severity · resource allocation · crisis intervention · urgent care · paramedics · sorting · acuity · emergency room · emergency department · disaster preparedness · defibrillator · first aid · disaster drills · crisis management · gurney · vitals
- safety trainingsafety training, fire drills, safety courses, OSHA training, first aid
medical triagelottery system
Selection by random draw
waiting in line · random selection · chronological order · random assignment