Question

What is the purpose of triage? How do you make it effective?

Answer 1

TRIAGE:- Rapidly classifying the injured individual on the basis of severity of their injury during a disaster.
- It focus the response using a sensitive and specific system, in order to use limited resources most effectively.
- The purpose of triage is to save as many lives as possible.
- During a severe pandemic,
when the need for care will be greater than
the resources available will last for weeks or months.
- Using scarce medical resources
to provide care for patients who may be very sick, but who will probably die even
with intensive care, may result in other less sick patients not receiving care, getting
sicker, and dying, triage will help in those conditions.

TO MAKE TRIAGE EFFECTIVE:-
- understand the health impact of pandemic on a population.
- prepare severity based level of healthcare.
- Get ready for unfavorable situation.
- strength the base.