triage unit
Emergency priority area
A triage unit is a medical team or facility that sorts patients by urgency of need.
In emergency rooms, disaster sites, or battlefield medicine, the triage unit assesses incoming casualties and determines who gets treatment first: The triage unit directed critical cases to surgery while stable patients waited.
The term also applies to any team that prioritizes competing demands under pressure.
- emergencySerious sudden danger
- emergency roomHospital crisis department
- traumaLasting psychological wound
- criticalExpressing disapproval or importance
- life or deathMaximally high stakes
code blue · ambulance · stretcher · urgent · nurse · assessment · battlefield · field hospital · priority · red tag · wounded · walking wounded · gurney · paramedic · stabilize · blood · disaster · mass casualty
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Room for surgical procedures
intensive care unit · recovery room · trauma bay · infusion center · dialysis unit
triage unitrecovery room
Ward for surgical aftermath
long-term care facility · operating room · intensive care unit · inpatient ward · morgue
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