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This is a 5 page paper discussing the history of triage in medicine and its use in the military and civilian health care. Triage, a medical term to mean a sorting or classification of patients based on their levels of medical urgency was first developed as a military term and used in wartime. The French used “triage” to decide who would be taken from the battlefields to be treated and who would be left behind. Soon afterward, from World War II until present day, triage was not only used in Army field hospitals but is also now used in emergency departments to classify the large number of patients who enter each day. Nurses have been involved in the triage process from the beginning and recently the nursing associations have broadened the original three level triage classifications of emergent, urgent and non-urgent, to one of a four level priority system in the United States and one of five level priorities in Australia, Canada and Great Britain. Regardless of the number of levels, triage has become an important and efficient system to evaluate a patient’s urgency as well as analyze the effectiveness of the health care given in emergency departments.
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term and used in wartime. The French used "triage" to decide who would be taken from the battlefields to be treated and who would be left behind. Soon afterward, from
World War II until present day, triage was not only used in Army field hospitals but is also now used in emergency departments to classify the large number of patients
who enter each day. Nurses have been involved in the triage process from the beginning and recently the nursing associations have broadened the original three level triage classifications of emergent,
urgent and non-urgent, to one of a four level priority system in the United States and one of five level priorities in Australia, Canada and Great Britain. Regardless of the
number of levels, triage has become an important and efficient system to evaluate a patients urgency as well as analyze the effectiveness of the health care given in emergency departments.
Triage, originating from the French word "trier" meaning "to sort" is a sorting process used primarily in medical emergency department
to prioritize the treatment of patients. The term was first said to originate during the French wars where triage was used in the battlefields to sort who would be taken
back for treatment and who would be left behind and not treated. In the 1800s, unless a patient was dying those in the emergency rooms would wait for hours because
of the first-come, first-serve basis. The term did not surface again medically until its application in the sorting of patients in World War II (American College, 2002; Jones, G, 2002).
In a recent account of his medical experience in the Vietnam War, B. Fishel was interviewed in relation to the American medical effort
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