Triage
Activity
e-Learning Module
e-Learning Module
Become familiar with the Canadian Triage and Acuity System (CTAS) prior to the triage shift in Emergency medicine clerkship.
Curriculum Block
Clerkship / Emergency Medicine Rotation
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Objectives
Clerkship Objectives
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues and other health care professionals.
- Describe the role of other health professionals in the management of the patient in the ED.
- Demonstrate a basic systematic, prioritized approach to resuscitation and stabilization of emergencies.
- Demonstrate a basic ability to distinguish seriously ill or injured patients from those with minor conditions.
- Distinguish which conditions are life-threatening or emergent from those that are less urgent.
- Describe the concept of triage and prioritization of care, including paraphrasing the use of Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS). Recognize that certain groups of patients require a high index of suspicion for serious illness (e.g.,immunocompromised, chronic renal failure, transplant, extremes of age, intoxicated, and diabetes).
Assessments
Logbook/Portfolio
Tags
Curriculum Block
Clerkship
Emergency Medicine Rotation
Discipline
Emergency Medicine
MCC Presentations
Trauma
McMaster Program Competencies
2.3 Apply principles of clinical sciences to diagnostic and therapeutic decision-making, clinical problem-solving, and other aspects of evidence-based healthcare
MeSH
Decision Support Systems, Clinical [L01.700.508.300.190]
Decision Support Techniques [E05.245]
Emergency Medical Services [N02.421.297]
Trauma Severity Indices [E05.944]
Triage [N02.421.297.900]
