Triage in healthcare is sorting patients by acuity to prioritize them for full evaluation. Standardizing this process with the use of triage acuity classification tools has been shown to improve patient flow and quality of care in the emergency department. The American College of Obstetricians and ...
Clarifying the dimensions and characteristics of obstetric telephone triage is important in improving the quality of services in the health system because researchers can evaluate the effectiveness of treatment, care and diagnostic measures in the form of obstetric telephone triage by developing a guidelin...
The critical events considered for this purpose were decision to make referral, arrival at hospital, making triage, seeing a senior obstetrician, making diagnosis, and administering definitive treatment. Moreover, the following causes of delay were also treated as independent variables in this category...
articles specifically related to obstetric triage or obstetric emergency practices in the hospital setting. Exclusion criteria included: manuscripts that focused on general, nonobstetric emergency and triage units, telephone triage, out-of-... D Angelini,E Howard - 《Mcn the American Journal of Matern...
of a sort of checklist aimed at identifying anamnestic risk factors important for pregnancy management right from the beginning of a pregnancy can be of great help, and it is the first step of the obstetric triage whose task is to highlight specific care pathways for the assessment of the ...
symptoms.44 SOAP provided a scripted simulation scenario designed to guide teams through meeting a parturient with suspected COVID-19 team in triage, transport to a labor room and placement of a labor epidural, emergency cesarean delivery, induction, and recovery from a general anesthetic (Fig. ...
Thesedeathsspannedallsocioeconomicclasses;inadditiontothedeaths,anevenlargernumberof“nearmisses”,womenwhohadseverehemorrhagesbutsurvived,werereported. MOTIVATIONIII ToDecreaseMaternalMortalityduetoHemorrhage,ACOGandtheNYDOHrecommendthatallObstetricUnitsdevelopeffectiveguidelinesforthemanagementofObstetricalHemorrhage. ...
However, in many settings, it is used to manage early, mid, and late pregnancy complications as well as emergent obstetric conditions. Obstetric triage units are often the gatekeeper for initial assessment of obstetric presenting complaints. The finite resources of the Emergency Department emphasize ...
Stella CL,Dacus J,Guzman E, et al.The diagnostic dilemma of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura/hemolytic uremic syndrome in the obstetric triage and emergency department:lessons from 4 tertiary hospitals. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology . 2009...
Implementing an Obstetric Emergency Department Service Line Using the Maternal Fetal Triage Indexdoi:10.1016/j.jogn.2017.04.035EileenVidoDesireeHenshawSDOSJournal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing