Triage Level 4

Triage t r i t r i is the process of determining the priority of patients treatments by the severity of their condition or likelihood of recovery with and without treatmentthis rations patient treatment efficiently when resources are insufficient for all to be treated immediately.

Triage level 4. 45 the department guidelines states that level 4 and 5 patients are triaged primarily to medical urgent care or minor trauma. The canadian triage and acuity scale ctas has five levels. Emergent emergency very urgent. Influencing the order and priority of emergency treatment emergency transport.

Less urgent conditions that relate to patient distress or potential complications that would benefit from intervention. Urgent serious conditions that require emergency intervention. People in this category have less severe symptoms or injuries such as a foreign body in the eye sprained ankle migraine or earache. Given esi 2 level peds fever 1 28 days old if rectal temp 1004 f 1 3 months old consider if rectal temp 1004 f 3 mo 3 yrs old assign esi 3 if temp 1022 f assign esi 2 if temp 1022 f and patient has incomplete immunizations or no obvious source of fever.

Emergent conditions that are a potential threat to life limb or function. In a walk in clinic or emergency department an interview with a triage nurse is a common first step to receiving care. This document describes the emergency severity index esi triage algorithm implementation handbook and dvds. Example in many hospitals the triage policy stipulates that all esi level 4 and level 5 patients can be sent to either the medical fast track or minor trauma areas of the ed.

The emergency severity index esi is a five level emergency department ed triage algorithm that provides clinically relevant stratification of patients into five groups from 1 most urgent to 5 least urgent on the basis of acuity and resource needs. Cardiopulmonary arrest anaphylaxis active seizures. Resuscitation conditions that are threats to life or limb. He or she generally takes a brief medical history of the complaint and measures vital signs heart rate respiratory rate temperature and blood pressure in order to identify seriously ill persons who must receive immediate care.

Triage category 4 people who need to have treatment within one hour are categorised as having a potentially serious condition. Triage level 1 triage level 2 triage level 3 triage level 4 triage level 5. The triage policy may also allow for some level 3 patients to be sent to urgent care uc such as patients needing simple migraine headache treatment. Furthermore the time needed to perform triage was an average of 4 minutes with the best performer reaching 2 minutes.

In 98 the duration of the triage process was under 5 minutes.