In message <001501bdf4a6$21b68480$cfc1edc1@home>, Peter Wilson
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>Hi Mark
>
>I'd like to make a couple of points about triage.
>
>Don't you think that it is just another holding strategy deferring the
>inevitable?
>
>Do nurses really want to be doing it? How long do you think they'll continue
>wanting to do it?
>
>My main experience with triage is in an OOH Co-op situation via Doctors and
>IMHO it is confrontational to say the least. By definition it is the process
>of sorting out those that need varying levels of medical intervention
>although I think it was originally applied to those injured in battle or
>major accidents.
Triage was started to identify those who were going to die anyway, those
who would survive anyway, and concentrate the existing resources on
those cases where intervention would actually make a difference.
Is general practice to be regarded as a battlefield situation -
officially?
>Did you join up to be "brutal"?
Come come, let's call it "realistic" .. this *is* the Age of Spin! ;->>
Mary
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