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From: john ryan .
>Calling a zone a 'minor' area can unfortunately underplay the seriousness
of some patient's problems.
A excellent point John, but...
> We have called our resuscitation area 'Zone 1', our higher dependancy area
> 'Zone 2', our 'ambulatory care' (I like this one to) area 'Zone 3', Our
> paediatric area 'Zone 4' and our short stay ward/clinical decision unit'
> 'Zone 5'.
...does this really make sense to anyone outside of your unit, i.e. locums,
visiting staff, new staff etc? Zone 1, 2 or 3 doesn't intuitively mean
anything, so I gotta agree with Stephen Hughes on this one...
From: stephen hughes
>Seriously, it would be less confusion for patients if "resus", "majors",
>"minors" and "triage" all meant the same thing wherever they went. This
>is, to my mind, an issue in department design.
And finally, just to annoy the purists on the List, I don't think there's
much wrong with the term "casualty" either, it's a damn sight more neat than
"accident & emergency", although I would still prefer "emergency
department", but that's an old thread isn't it?
Adrian Fogarty
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