According to this definition, urgency is determined by a lay person and emergency services have two components; firstly evaluation and then, treatment. Most of the patients who come to an emergency department believe they have a problem requiring immediate medical care. In such cases, ED triage ...
Definition:anincident,eithernaturalorhuman-made,thatproducespatientsinnumbersneedingservicesbeyondimmediatelyavailableresources.Mayinvolvealargeno.ofpatientsorasmallno.ofpatientsiftheirneedsplacesignificantdemandsonresources. Thekeytosuccessfuldisastermanagementistoprovidecaretothosewhoareingreatestneedfirstandjustasimportan...
Department of Clinical and Experimental Pathology, Division of Clinical Pathology, Wroclaw Medical University, Borowska 213, 50-556 Wroclaw, Poland 5 Division of Gynecologic Endocrinology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kopernika 23, 31-501 Krakow, Poland ...