Revisions to the Canadian Emergency Department Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS) Guidelines

Revisions to the Canadian Emergency Department Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS) Guidelines

Following the CTAS revisions in 2004 some emergency medical services (EMS) began training their pre-hospital providers in the use of CTAS hoping it could improve communication between the paramedics and the emergency department staff. The Ambulance Act, Ontario Regulation 257/00 was amended in 2011...

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Veröffentlicht in:Canadian journal of emergency medicine 2014-11, Vol.16 (6), p.485-489
Hauptverfasser: Bullard, Michael J., Chan, Tom, Brayman, Colleen, Warren, David, Musgrave|RN, Erin, Unger, Bernard, Members of the CTAS National Working Group
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Sprache:eng
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Acute Disease - classification
CAEP guidelines
Canada
Emergency medical care
Emergency Service, Hospital - standards
Guidelines
Humans
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Revisions
Triage - standards
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Zusammenfassung:Following the CTAS revisions in 2004 some emergency medical services (EMS) began training their pre-hospital providers in the use of CTAS hoping it could improve communication between the paramedics and the emergency department staff. The Ambulance Act, Ontario Regulation 257/00 was amended in 2011 (http://www.e-laws. gov.on.ca/html/regs/ english/ elaws_regs_0002 57_e. htm#BK9) to require ambulance services to develop a patient response plan based on CTAS acuity as assigned by the paramedic.
ISSN:1481-8035
1481-8043
DOI:10.1017/S148180350000350X