MDC4 Final Exam

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What does triaging do? - *acts as gatekeeper* helps prioritize patient care based on illness and severity level 2. According to triage, what patients would be seen first - highest acuity patients ... will receive quickest intervention (Most ill/severe will get seen first) 3. What is a good model for triaging patients? - ABCs 4. Is hospital triaging the same as mass casualty triaging? - NO 5. Which triage situation uses tags? - mass casualties 6. what are the categories of triage? - - emergent - urgent - nonurgent - primary survey 7. what classifies a patient as emergent according to triage? - - life threatening injuries - needs immediate treatment 8. what patient conditions warrant an emergent status of triage - - respiratory distress - chest pain with diaphoresis - stroke - active hemorrhage - unstable vitals 9. what classifies a patient as urgent according to triage? - patient should be treated quickly but there is not and immediate threat to life 10. what patient conditions warrant an urgent status for triage - - severe abdominal pain - renal colic - displaced multiple fractures - new onset of respiratory infection ( [Show More]

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