DM Birnbaumer
Abstract
Not everyone who uses the prehospital system needs ambulance transportation, but triaging patients is fraught with pitfalls. These authors evaluated whether emergency medical technicians in Portland, Oregon could apply prehospital triage protocols appropriately. Emergency medicine experts developed a set of triage protocols to stratify patients into 1 of …
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Not everyone who uses the prehospital system needs ambulance transportation, but triaging patients is fraught with pitfalls. These authors evaluated whether emergency medical technicians in Portland, Oregon could apply prehospital triage protocols appropriately. Emergency medicine experts developed a set of triage protocols to stratify patients into 1 of …
Key concepts: Triage, Medicine, Medical emergency, Emergency medical services, Emergency department, Emergency medicine, Nursing