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Triaging Ambulance Patients
We have no requirement that ambulance patients get an AAED room immediately, since often we have sicker patients waiting in the waiting room. Patients may be triaged out to the waiting room after arriving by ambulance, but the following procedure should be followed
- An RN performs the initial triage and if the patient obviously needs a room the nurse should room the patient
- If the nurse believes the patient is stable to be triaged normally, a resident should evaluate the patient. The attending is not required initially. This is the responsibility of the A Team Senior Resident.
- If the resident feels the patient is stable to go to triage - they go to triage ONLY after discussion with the attending and a note documents this decision.
- Use the dotphrase documentation ".edambulancetriage"
(Dir. OPS, February 03, 2015)
