Triage vs Emergency - What's the difference?
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Assessment or sorting according to quality.
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(medicine) The process of sorting patients so as to determine the order in which they will be treated (for example, by assigning precedence according to the urgency of illness or injury).
(computing, by extension) The process of prioritizing bugs to be fixed.
To assess or sort according to quality or some other aspect.
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 01, author=Linda Diebel, title=Existential crises and a rage to save the Liberals, work=Toronto Star
, passage=Then, over 2001 and '02, he laid off 150 employees at MGI Software, a company he'd first "triaged " as a consultant for NPV Associates with his partner and fellow UCC alumnus Henry Eaton, before stepping in as CEO. Firing 30 per cent of the work force was necessary to save the company, insists NPV principal partner Eaton. }}
A situation which poses an immediate risk and which requires urgent attention.
:Cardiac arrest is an emergency and if you find someone in cardiac arrest you should call 999 immediately.
(US, Canada, often attributive) The department of a hospital that treats emergencies.
An individual brought in at short notice to replace a member of staff, a player in a sporting team, etc.
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(archaic) The quality of being emergent; sudden or unexpected appearance; an unforeseen occurrence.
As nouns the difference between triage and emergency
is that triage is assessment or sorting according to quality while emergency is a situation which poses an immediate risk and which requires urgent attention.As a verb triage
is to assess or sort according to quality or some other aspect.triage
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(wikipedia triage)Noun
(-)- [Mike Davis] notes that the 'late capitalist triage of humanity' has 'already taken place'.
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(emergencies)Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk
- Van Gaal responded by replacing Adnan Januzaj with Carrick and, in fairness, the emergency centre-half did exceedingly well given that he has not played since May.
