TRIAGE! TRIAGE!! TRIAGE!!! (NOT TREATMENT!!)

Equine Wounds: Triage to Treatment

Exposed bone Exposed or denuded bone is a common complication of wounds of the distal aspect of the limb. Exposed cortical bone in which the periosteum has been removed, is prone to desiccation of the superficial layers of the cortex, which may result in infectious superficial osteitis and sequestrum formation. Exposed bone within a wound can delay wound healing directly if the bone becomes inf...

The Cape Triage Score -- a triage system for South Africa.

The Cape Triage Score (CTS) has been derived by the Cape Triage Group (CTG) for use in emergency units throughout South Africa. It can also be used in the pre-hospital setting, although it is not designed for mass casualty situations. The CTS comprises a physiologically based scoring system and a list of discriminators, designed to triage patients into one of five priority groups for medical at...

Disaster Triage System and Educational Strategies

Background: One of the medical team’s responsibilities is to teach the methods of rescue and aid necessary for casualties who have been injured in disasters. They must be taken away of the place of disaster, transferred, categorized and cured. Methods: Delphi technique was used in this research. Firstly, a number of questions were framed and sent to a number of experts of different majors. They...

Ethics of Conservation Triage

Conservation triage seems to be at a stalemate between those who accept triage based on utilitarian rationalization, and those that reject it based on a number of ethical principles. We argue that without considered attention to the ethics of conservation triage we risk further polarization in the field of conservation. We draw lessons from the medical sector, where triage is more intuitive and...

Editorial: Triage in Conservation