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A
Abbey Pain Rating Scale, 41 ABCs of mental health assessment, 28 – 9 abdominal pain, pregnant patients, 54 accountability, 56 ACEM, see Australasian College for Emergency
Medicine acuity, measuring, 6 acute behavioural disturbance, 31 acute pain, 40 affect, 28 age factors, 19, see also paediatric triage extremes of age, 24 gestational age, 52 – 4 young patients, 31 airway obstruction, 19, 21 paediatric triage, 45, 48 pregnant patients, 51 altered consciousness, 22, 46, 58 analgesia, 42 antepartum haemorrhage, 53 aorta, 52 appearance criteria, 21, 28, 45 application procedures Australasian Triage Scale, 10 pain assessment, 42 assessment techniques, 21 mental health, 27 – 31 pain, 40 – 1 assumptions, 16 asthma, 45, 51 ATS, see Australasian Triage Scale Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, 58 Australasian Triage Scale, vii, 5 – 6, 9 – 12, 56 AVPU scale, 23, 46
B behaviour acute behavioural disturbance, 31 in mental health assessment, 28 blood pressure, 53, see also hypotension Box Hill Hospital System, 10 breathing paediatric triage, 45, 48 respiratory distress, 19, 22
C
Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale, 6 capillary refill time, paediatric triage, 46, 48 cardiac output, pregnant patients, 51 cardiotocograph, 53 carers, information provided by, 44, 46 cerebral haemorrhage, 52 cervical spine management, paediatric triage, 45 challenging communications, 17 children, see paediatric triage chronic pain, 40 circulation problems, 19 paediatric triage, 46, 48 pregnant patients, 51 clinical urgency, see urgency co-morbid factors, 47 cognitive impairments, see conscious-state abnormalities; mental health triage collegial ramifications, 38 comfort, need for, 17 communication issues, 13 – 17 community knowledge, 38 conditions, criteria based on, 19, 28, 46 confidentiality issues, 44, 59, see also privacy issues conscious-state abnormalities, 22, 46, 58 consent, 56 – 7 consistency of triage, 11 conversation criteria, 29 coronial investigations, 25 correct triage decisions, 7 CTAS, 6 cultural diversity, 16
D decision-making, factors in, 12 definitions, 3 dehydration, paediatric triage, 46, 48 delirium, 30 dementia, 30 detention of patients, 57 disability rating, 19, 22 – 3, 46, 48 – 9 district nursing, 37 documentation requirements, 58 – 9 duty of care, 57 – 8
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