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In medicine, triage (/ ˈ t r iː ɑː ʒ /, / t r i ˈ ɑː ʒ /) is a process by which care providers such as medical professionals and those with first aid knowledge determine the order of priority for providing treatment to injured individuals [1] and/or inform the rationing of limited supplies so that they go to those who can most benefit from it. [2]
The Cruciform Evacuation System is a variation of the system applying Triage to mass planned and unplanned evacuation scenarios (e.g. hospital evacuations). The Smart Tag from TSG Associates . Adopted by the State of New York in 2004, the British Military in 2002, used by London Ambulance Service in the 7 July 2005 London bombings and by the ...
Emergency Dept. Entrance. The Emergency Severity Index (ESI) is a five-level emergency department triage algorithm, initially developed in 1998 by emergency physicians Richard Wurez and David Eitel. [1] It was previously maintained by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) but is currently maintained by the Emergency Nurses ...
classify victims during a mass casualty incident. Simple triage and rapid treatment ( START) is a triage method used by first responders to quickly classify victims during a mass casualty incident (MCI) based on the severity of their injury. The method was developed in 1983 by the staff members of Hoag Hospital and Newport Beach Fire Department ...
Aircraft incidents. 1945: July 10, Thomas Arthur Garner, AMM3, USN, along with eleven other crew members, was lost at sea in a US Navy PBM3S patrol seaplane, Bu. No.6545, Sqd VPB2-OTU#3, in the Bermuda Triangle. They left Naval Air Station, Banana River, Florida, at 7:07 p.m. on July 9, 1945, for a radar training flight to Great Exuma, Bahamas.
Tricks (novel) Tricks. (novel) Tricks is a young adult verse novel by Ellen Hopkins, released in August 2009. It tells the converging narratives of five troubled teenage protagonists. It is noted for its gritty realism in addressing issues of sexual activity and drug use for a young adult readership. It has been banned in some places due to its ...
Triangles has received several critical reviews, garnering positive reviews from sites such as Publishers Weekly and being one of Entertainment Weekly's "Must Pick" books. Blog Critics said that the book "is a tale that is, on the one hand psychologically disturbing, and on the other hand, a story quite beautifully written."
Euclidean geometry is a mathematical system attributed to ancient Greek mathematician Euclid, which he described in his textbook on geometry, Elements. Euclid's approach consists in assuming a small set of intuitively appealing axioms (postulates) and deducing many other propositions ( theorems) from these. Although many of Euclid's results had ...