Critical Care and Emergency Nursing: Triage principles — Purpose and Core Principles
How emergency teams decide who is seen first, from five-level scales to color-coded disaster triage.
Critical Care and Emergency Nursing · 25 questions
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1. In disaster triage, what does a yellow 'delayed' tag mean?
- Minor injuries anyone could treat
- Injuries needing care within minutes
- Serious injuries that can safely wait
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Answer: Serious injuries that can safely wait
Yellow patients are hurt badly enough to need hospital care, but their condition is stable enough to wait a few hours behind the red group.
2. Napoleon's surgeon Dominique-Jean Larrey pioneered triage by treating wounded soldiers in what order?
- By order of arrival at the tent
- By severity of wounds, not rank
- By military rank, highest first
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Answer: By severity of wounds, not rank
Larrey insisted the most dangerously wounded be treated first regardless of rank or nationality, the core idea of modern triage.
3. In an emergency department, what is triage primarily meant to determine?
- How urgently each patient needs care
- Each patient's final diagnosis
- Which ward will admit each patient
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Answer: How urgently each patient needs care
Triage assigns clinical priority in minutes; diagnosis and admission decisions come later, after full assessment.
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