What is sorting?

triage is used in medical emergencies as a system for sorting injured to help with the largest number of patients. In medical emergency situations, where there are more injured people than there are medical resources that take care of them, sorting doctors or other medical staff can decide which people can be most helping and how to help them effectively. Emergency rooms also sorted patients. Patients with injury threatening life are marked as low priority. Things like broken bones or minor wounds could fall into this category. Often, slightly injured patients, sometimes referred to as "injuries", can help each other with the basic first aid and, when switching to safety in a dangerous environment, such as the accident scene. This category would include serious bleeding from wounds, amputation or internal injury. Basic first aid is not enough to save these patients, but the basic surgery will provide them with a high probabilityera.

ethically and emotionally, the most difficult aspect is to sort the designation of some patients who require too much attention, or it is unlikely that they will survive even with extreme medical care. However, the sorting professional must make this difficult choice, because the same four surgeons who would need 10 hours to try to save the victim of heavy burning, just to give him a little chance of survival, can be able to save dozens of less seriously injured patients and give each of them a great chance of recovering.

Another aspect of sorting is to reduce pressure on emergency medical units and traumatic units around sending slightly injured and severely injured but stable patients to other doctors who are able to handle the burden. Instructions of slightly injured patients to visit their ordinary physician or send seriously injured but stable patients to hospitals, areu good examples.

As a way of introducing limited medical resources to the most capable of good, sorting is an essential tool for healthcare workers facing an emergency.