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triageDivision of patients for priority of care, usually into three categories: those who will not survive even with treatment; those who will survive without treatment; and those whose survival depends on treatment. If triage is applied, the treatment of patients requiring it is not delayed by useless or unnecessary treatment of those in the other groups. Triage originated in military medicine, when limited resources faced many wounded soldiers. It is used in civilian settings during disasters or epidemics and in emergency rooms. Triage decisions are made after relatively quick examination; patients in lower-priority groups should be reexamined periodically. |
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| Emergency mental health triage is a process that happens in the Emergency Department (ED) and occurs within the context of normal triage practice. The ``blood'' on Judge's T-shirt helped push her to the front line of a decontamination center on the grounds of Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital, a portable shower unit and triage center that would be activated should a disaster involving chemicals strike. The newly-developed system uses special triage tags with a two-dimensional code and a digital pen provided by Swedish high-tech company Anoto AB. |
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