Sentences with phrase «medical triage»

As the deadliest fires in California history swept through leafy neighborhoods here, Kathleen Sarmento fled her home in the dark, drove to an evacuation center and began setting up a medical triage unit.

There is a significant need for emergency medical triage and care for pets whose owners were displaced and can not afford vet care, and for those pets who were in shelters at the time Harvey hit and in need of rescue now.

's Medical Triage Clinic as a medical technician until 2009 when she relocated to College Station to complete her veterinary doctorate at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine.

Finally, there are difficult decisions that individual aid workers must make during day - to - day operations that involve interacting with the local populations, such as determining which patients to prioritize during medical triage.

But the difference in scope between the immediate consequences of medical triage and the vast, unforeseeable consequences of a global food triage would seem to invalidate any further analogy between the two.

Not exact matches

«It's more a triage type of system,» said Elliott — providers are able to tackle a broad range of nonurgent medical issues and advise consumers who aren't sure how serious their condition is.

Dr. AI is a «triage» platform that lets users know the potential causes of various medical symptoms and then ranks them by severity and likelihood (it can also direct you to a doctor who knows how to treat the conditions).

Medical treatment was described by the editor of The Lancet as «haphazard», noting that there was no attempt to keep patients triaged appropriately, and that patients who might be curable were routinely placed with patients who had communicable diseases.

From the standpoint of utilitarian ethics, triage is the most moral option for making such medical selections.

As a medical ethicist, how do you regard the use of triage in wartime and in emergency medical procedures?

Clinical triage officers deal with specific, limited and immediate problems of allocating scarce resources in lifesaving and medical care programs.

The results of a 11 - year study of the impact of statewide field triage changes to Maryland's helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) were published online in Annals of Emergency Medicine.

Joseph Fins, a professor of medicine and medical ethics at Weill Cornell Medical Center, applauds the approval and says, «This test is an advance for triaging CT scans.medical ethics at Weill Cornell Medical Center, applauds the approval and says, «This test is an advance for triaging CT scans.Medical Center, applauds the approval and says, «This test is an advance for triaging CT scans.»

Three practices used nurses, medical assistants or case managers to triage messages from patients; in the other three practices, patients could email nurses for refills or the front desk for appointments, but they could also email their physician directly.

These make normal medical examinations impossible, forcing responders to rely on «noxious stimulus triage» — nicknamed kick triage — to sort out the living from the dead.

The second paper («Identifying Elder Abuse in the Emergency Department: Towards a Multi-Disciplinary Team - Based Approach») recommends a team - based approach across disciplines to identify elder abuse, including emergency medical providers, triage providers, nurses, radiologists and technicians, social workers and case managers.

For example, his work at the World Trade Center Disaster after 9/11 led him to examine the role of medical teams deployed under the U.S. Federal Response Plan as well as triage practices at the scene.

Areas of Expertise: Family medicine, primary care of refugees and marginalized populations, implemented the Newcomer Health Project (initial screening and triage clinic for refugees by volunteer physicians and medical students)

Julia Kiss has a background in medical and health sciences, with experiences as an endocrinology hospital scientist, haematology research assistant, radiology triage officer, and as a secondary school science teacher.

SDHS provided quick response to this devastating situation with onsite medical examinations and then transported the dogs for triage and further medical care at their San Diego Campus.

All animals seen by the Emergency Service are «triaged» and assigned a medical priority based on vital signs to ensure that the most critically ill are given priority.

Medical Care: feeding amounts, cleanliness, minor wound bandaging, suture / staple removal, ear cleaning / flushing, triage patients and therapeutic bathing

Skills & Qualifications: Perform veterinary medical procedures including: bandage changes, venipuncture, sample collection, IV catheter placement, large animal anesthesia, medication calculation & administration, fluid therapy, TPR, assess and triage patients.

Once we saw how devastating this situation was, we responded quickly with medical examinations and transport to our San Diego Campus for triage and further medical care.

The primary purposes of this position are to examine and triage animals entering the facility, develop and oversee appropriate treatment plans for animals requiring emergency or ongoing medical care, perform surgeries, monitor the health and care of animals housed at the shelter, and act in the capacity of an expert witness in court cases.

Upon arrival at the MVMC all pets are triaged by our experienced medical staff.

Experience with bottle feeding, triage and medical care of unweaned animals, kittens or wildlife preferred.

VERT is focused on training others including students, fire service personnel, animal services, and animal emergency response teams in all aspects of animal related disasters including evacuation training, animal sheltering, triage, medical evaluation and treatment of injuries related to fire, flood, and technical large animal rescue.

If your pet is in critical condition and requires immediate medical attention, the nurse will triage your patient to our treatment area while you fill our new client form.

When called upon by local government, NYCVERT mobilizes to triage, perform emergency medical treatment, and provide medical boarding of affected pets and working canines.

Triage, emergency medical treatment, and on - site support of working animals at designated emergency response locations

Our purpose is to accept lost, strayed or otherwise homeless cats and kittens, assess and secure them, provide immediate triage as necessary, and through our local veterinarian, provide other medical care as needed.

The Lily Fund was established in 2001 by the staff of Animal Emergency Center of Quad Cities in honor of Lily and exists solely for the purpose of providing needed medical attention and triage to indigenous pets.

• Organized mobile triage unit at evacuation center dispensing medical assistance, flea medications, vaccinations and nail trims for animals in - need.

At Calusa Veterinary Center, we offer medical services, rehabilitation, surgery, triage and emergency care, as well as grooming and luxury boarding.

The Animal Medical Center veterinarians were at the Show triaging dogs unlucky enough to get sick during the second longest running sporting event in the United States.

While our veterinary hospital policy is to assist pets on a first come, first serve basis, we do use a triage system for prioritizing urgent medical attention.

Next stop, they are triaged by a health care professional who takes some initial medical history.

Tagged with: accident, attorney, Auto Accident, Automobile Accident, brain injury, Christensen Law, collision, Concussion, David Christensen, disability, elder care, elderly, end - of - life, injury, lawyer, medical expenses, medicine, old, serious injury, TBI, traumatic brain injury, treatment, triage, undertriage

After the initial triage stage, be sure to get a top medical and legal team to help you make the long term decisions and get the insurance company to cover your care.

In both the medical and legal contexts, the diagnostic, or «triage» role is key to determining the appropriate level of assistance that will be necessary in each case.

ER patients need critical care: they are prioritized (also known as «triaged») in order of their immediate medical needs.

Legal Expert Systems in Service Delivery Lecturer: Richard Granat, Direct Law This session will explore the use of expert systems as force multipliers for legal services in areas such as intake, navigation and triage, immigration, Medicaid appeals, consumer debt and landlord - tenant, veterans» medical care, and unemployment benefits.

The medical system is full of metaphors that can be pasted onto the justice system, like the concept of preventative medicine, triage, day surgery and critical care... and, I suppose, palliative care.

For example, in the Las Vegas shooting, where there wasn't time to process paperwork, hospital triage officials simply assigned an alias to every incoming patient and wrote it in marker on their body to keep the medical records straight, and to allow that alias to track medical costs to be billed when the time came to get the proper intake paperwork filled out and the file sent to the accounting department.

As pointed out by David I. Schulman (and others) in his insightful article on public health legal services, the medical model of triage operates in a world of scarcity.

And as the unaffordable legal services problem grows smaller, the NSRLP should willingly evolve to provide the legal profession's counterpart to the family doctor's sorting and triage service for the medical profession's sophisticated infrastructure of mutually interdependent support services — the NSRLP staff explaining how troubles contain legal problems, that very often are not apparent to the average person, and then finding the right lawyer and legal service for every person asking for its help.

Allianz Global Assistance offers travel insurance and unique assistance services such as international medical assistance and triage services.

The Medical Receptionist is responsible for the initial triage and the administrative intake of information for patients and visitors to the clinical sites.

• Report to clinical coordinator or practice administrator • Perform nursing procedures under supervision of physician or physician assistant • Assist physician and physician assistant in exam rooms • Escort patients to exam rooms, interviews patients, measure vital signs, including weight, blood pressure, pulse, temperature, and document all information in patient's chart • Give instructions to patients as instructed by physician or physician assistant • Ensure all related reports, labs and information is filed is available in patients» medical records prior to their appointment • Keep exam rooms stocked with adequate medical supplies, maintain instruments, prepare sterilization as required • Take telephone messages and provide feedback and answers to patient / physician / pharmacy calls • Triage and process messages from patients and front office staff to physicians and physician assistants • Maintain all logs and required checks (i.e. refrigerator temperatures, emergency medications, expired medications, oxygen, cold sterilization fluid change, etc.) • All other duties as assigned by clinical coordinator or practice administrator