Triage and acuity tools
Decision tools for "who is sickest, who goes first, who can wait."
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START and JumpSTART mass-casualty triage, the 2021 CDC field trauma triage criteria, qSOFA and SOFA, shock index, Cincinnati and FAST stroke screens, NIHSS, ABCD2 for TIA, PEWS for pediatric acuity, AVPU/GCS, and the NEXUS C-spine rule.
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- START Adult MCI Triage Walk a single adult patient through the START (Simple Triage and Rapid Treatment) algorithm and return a…
- JumpSTART Pediatric MCI Triage Walk a pediatric patient (roughly age 1-8, or any child who looks pre-adolescent) through the JumpSTART…
- Trauma Triage Decision Tool (CDC) Step a single injured patient through the CDC National Guidelines for the Field Triage of Injured Patients.
- qSOFA / SOFA Score quickSOFA and the full Sequential Organ Failure Assessment side by side per Sepsis-3 (Singer JAMA 2016; Vincent ICM 1996).
- MAP / Pulse Pressure / Shock Index Compute four bedside hemodynamic indices from a single set of vitals.
- CPSS (Cincinnati Prehospital Stroke Scale) Apply the Cincinnati Prehospital Stroke Scale.
- FAST and BE-FAST Stroke Assessment Apply the FAST and BE-FAST stroke screens.
- NIH Stroke Scale Score the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale on its 15 items and return the total (0-42) plus the…
- ABCD2 Score (TIA stroke risk) Compute the ABCD2 score for early stroke risk after transient ischemic attack (Johnston Lancet 2007).
- Pediatric Early Warning Score (PEWS) Score the Pediatric Early Warning Score (PEWS) for detecting deterioration in hospitalized children.
- AVPU ↔ GCS Quick Reference A bedside cross-reference between the four-point AVPU scale…
- Glasgow Coma Scale Score the Glasgow Coma Scale on its three components.
- NEXUS + Canadian C-Spine Apply the two validated clinical-decision rules for cervical-spine imaging in alert blunt-trauma patients.
- Time-Based E/M Code Selector (2021) Map total provider time on the date of an office or outpatient encounter to the corresponding 2021 AMA CPT…
- APGAR Score the APGAR on its five components.